Internet Explorer Mobile handles key events
WOW, IEM (tested from AKU 6.1.5) handles key events. As you know (or should know), Internet Explorers before 6.1.4 ? did not handle key events. Although this may be not a problem with consumer devices,...
View ArticleMobile Developement – RDP AutoLogin extended (version 4)
Hello on the wish of the one or other user I extended the RDP AutoLogin code and we now reached level 4. The new code simply has only one extension, it supports the color depth selection. Also the...
View ArticleWindows Mobile: Kiosk Mode Series, part 1
Hello I would like to start a series of articles of how you can lockdown your application user in your application. How can you achieve a kiosk mode application, where the user is only allowed to do...
View ArticleWindows Mobile: Kiosk Mode Series, part 2
In the first part of this series I showed how to make your compact framework application full screen or remove the Start icon from the menu bar. Now we will take a look at the task bar. The task bar is...
View ArticleWindows Mobile: CF how to catch F1 and F2 in WEH
Before WEH and Windows Mobile 6 it was easy to catch all keys including the function keys in a Compact Framework (CF) application, you simply had to use Allkeys(true) and Form.Keypreview=true....
View ArticleWindows Mobile: redirect function keys into Internet Explorer Mobile browser
iHookIE6 this small tool enables you to use Function keys within Internet Explorer Mobile (IEM) web sites. Normally, most function keys are catched and used by the OS (GWES) to perfom special actions...
View ArticleRDM_Keepbusy has been updated
I fixed a bug in RDM_KeepBusy. It worked only for the first session and not after close/open another session. Please always use the subversion code. Bookmark It
View ArticleInternet Explorer Mobile – To zoom or not to zoom
With Windows Mobile 6.5.3, sorry, Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5.3 we have the Internet Explorer Mobile 6 engine. Although it may look nice for the one or other, the rendering, especially the zoom in...
View ArticleInternet Explorer Mobile – QVGA web site do not scale well to VGA screen
As described in this post, I was looking for a way to get a proper view of pages designed for QVGA screens on devices with higher resolutions like VGA. 1) SAP ITS mobile screen on VGA Internet Explorer...
View ArticleWindows Mobile 6.5: Changed Screen Geometry
Screen layout changes from Windows Mobile 6.1 to Windows Mobile Embedded Handheld 6.5 The Windows Mobile screen geometry changed from Windows Mobile 6.1 and before to the actual Windows Mobile 6.5...
View ArticleWindows Mobile 6 – Internet Explorer Mobile modes
Since IE6 comes as 6.1.4 or higher, Internet Explorer Mobile can work in IE6 or the older PIE mode. IE6 means Internet Explorer 6 desktop compatible mode. Which works more or less with known and...
View ArticleWindows Mobile – Ctlpnl.exe arguments
Did you know you can launch ctlpnl.exe to open a defined applet directly? OK, here we go: ctlpnl.exe cplmain.cpl,26 will open the Wireless Manager. You can use that in a .lnk file if you need a direct...
View ArticleWindows Mobile: Hidden Remote Desktop Client Clipboard support
Recently I looked for support of starting an alternative shell when using Remote Desktop Mobile on a Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5.3 device. MSDN says that I can to specify AlternateShell in a rdp...
View ArticleMobile development: rdp_autologin updated to support clipboard redirection
The source code of rdp_autologin has been updated and now default.rdp will now include some more lines: WorkingDir:s:C:\Program Files (x86) AlternateShell:s:C:\Program Files (x86)\notepad.exe...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 RDS and Windows Mobile: connection error
For whatever reason MS decided to make Windows 2012 RDS (former Terminal Services, now Remote Desktop Services) not compatible with Windows Mobile 6.x and other Windows CE 5.0 based handheld devices....
View ArticleMobile Development: writing today screen plugins the easy way
today Plugins with compact framework The following today or home screen plugins for Windows Mobile are based on a work of CrisText at codeplex. The codeplex sources provide a framework to create home...
View ArticleMobile Development: Subclass foreign Window using injectDLL
Recently we needed to show and hide the SIP (Software Input Panel) inside a full screen Remote Desktop Mobile session. The first challenge is to control the SIP without having a menu bar with the SIP...
View ArticleMobile Development – Start apps with another using injectDLL
I already posted one article about using injectDLL, one about subclassing a foreign window. This time injectDLL is used to start and stop an application when another app is started. Remember that every...
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