There are multiple special threads which the CLR maintains and executes. Yun Jin talks about them in his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/yunjin/archive/2005/07/05/435726.aspx.
Must read for those who want to understand CLR better!
With TechED 2005 India over, I have got sometime to work on the feedback I have got on the various components I have made available at http://www.wintoolzone.com/. Amongst them was to fix the tab order of CalendarSP - the date picker for SmartPhone 2003 and SmartPhone 5.0 platform. Download the updated control from http://www.wintoolzone.com/... ......
Check out the shared source Bluetooth class library - Windows Embedded Source Tools for Bluetooth
This is how the managed Date Picker, CalendarSP, looks like (click here for download details):
The .NET Compact Framework lacks a Date Picker control for the SmartPhone development platform. I have written CalendarSP that overcomes this limitation of the .NET CF and is targetted for the SmartPhone 2003 platform.Its free to use and comes with complete documentation.Download it from http://www.wintoolzone.com/... ......
I have added support in CERapi to determine the type of device (PocketPC, SmartPhone, etc) connected to via ActiveSync. The CESystemInformation class has a DeviceType property that will return a CEDeviceType enumeration value which indicates the type of device. The snippet below exemplifies this: CESystemInformation si = rapi.SystemInformation; // Device TypeConsole.WriteLine("You are connected with a {0}",si.DeviceType.ToString... And below is the output for my Typhoon: Download the updated CERapi ......
There's no programmatic way to determine if the Windows CE device connected via ActiveSync to the desktop is a PocketPC or a SmartPhone. If you wish to determine the same, open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows CE Services registry key and lookup the value of DeviceType value. Its a REG_SZ and contains the type of device you are connected with.
Whenever you publish a new version of an assembly that has some breaking changes relative to its predecessor version, its an exercise in itself to publish the breaking changes.
BradA points to
LibCheck, an application used internally for doing the same. Check it
here.
CERapi allows you to work with the file system of the Windows CE device and the snippet below shows how easy it is to do the same: // Working with device foldersCEFolder rootFolder = new CEFolder(\\storage\\My Documents);Console.WriteLin... {0}",rootFolder.Path);Conso... Files: {0}",rootFolder.TotalFileCo... SubFolders: {0}",rootFolder.TotalSubFol... // Copy File from desktopConsole.WriteLine("Move C:\\CASDEMO.TXT to device: {0}",rootFolder.MoveFileFro... ......
CERapi, the managed implementation for Windows CE Remote API (RAPI) has been updated to work with the file system of the Windows CE device. The CEFile and CEFolder classes have been introduced that make navigating the device easy. You can: Get list of files in specified folder Create/Delete folders Create/Delete/Move files Get folder/file attributes File's folder and its name - property Create shortcut to files Find files as per custom search filter Set file attributes Set filetime Launch files ......