Windows CE Programming

Hi

as MS does not change it, the Remote Desktop Mobile application still disconnects a session after 10 minutes idle time.

Although there is a solution for Windows Mobile 6.1 (http://www.hjgode.de/wp/2009/09/18/wm6-1-remote-desktop-client-disconnects-after-10-minutes/) based on the posting of Rafael (MS Support), this will not work with Windows Embedded Handheld (WM6.5).

The TSSHELLWND will not react on mouse_event and you have to replace the calls by SendMessage and send the WM_MOUSEMOVE to the Terminal Server Input window.

The attached application will do so but it will start only on Int*rm*c devices. It sends a mouse_move message all 4 minutes to the TS input window and so the idle timer will not timeout.

If you ever need to stop RDMKeepbusy from running in the background, you will need StopKeepBusy which is part of the executable download.

For visual control, RDMKeepbusy shows a small blinking line in the task bar:
green = Remote Desktop window found and input window is active
yellow = Remote Desktop window found, but no input window active
red = Remote Desktop window not found

DOWNLOAD:RDM Keepbusy - Windows Embedded Handheld application to avoid idle timeouts (Hits: 168, size: 8.07 kB)

Updated version (you dont need to start RDM before starting RDM_KeepBusy): DOWNLOAD:RDM_KeepBusy 3 - (Hits: 32, size: ) Note: this will run only on intermec devices!

Updated version (see usage.txt): DOWNLOAD:RDM_KeepBusy - remote desktop mobile disconnects after 10 minutes of idle time. RDM_KeepBusy will avoid this by simulating mouse movements (Hits: 33, size: 8.56 kB)

Do you like the Windows Mobile Device Center (WMDC) does popup every time you connect a mobile device to your (development) PC? If yes, don’t read further.

The attached application (including VS 2008 C++ source code) simply watches the Window list for Windows Mobile Device Center and Windows Mobile Member Center. If a window is found, it will be hidden automatically. Very simple application.

WMDCautohide will reside in the notification area of your Windows 7 PC after you started it. If Mobile Device Center has been found and hidden, there will be a short notification.

You can right click the notification symbol and then either show/hide WMDC, show the main window, set the watch interval or exit the tool.

Download: DOWNLOAD:WMDC Source and Exe - (Hits: 160, size: 45.5 kB)

Are you looking for a tool that periodically pings a list of hosts? Here is a toolset that will reschedule a ping utilitiy. This ping utility pings a list of hosts and will create notifications if one or most hosts failed to answer.

I have done this toolset with three separate applications. The scheduler and the notification tool are written in C/C++ win32 API cause this API provided the best access to all the possibilities of the used functions. The user notification API is only supported with basic functionality by CF2. The CEUserNotification API is not supported by CF2 at all.

Although OpenNetCF provides an C# interface to the used APIs, I did not like to include all the unneeded stuff. On the other hand the scheduler is fast and small written in C/C++. With C# I had problems with the notification, especially for removing existing notifications and why should the main tool reside in memory just for showing the notification.

The ping tool is written in C# targeting Compact Framework 2. C# was the easiest to implement the GUI.

All source is available thru one Visual Studio 2008 solution. Yes, you can mix C/C++ and CF2 within one solution.

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The famous rdesktop running natively on windows ce and windows mobile

Intro and Background

Some times ago I found that message of Jay Sorg and retrieved a copy of his code for a native rdesktop win32 version. I played a little and got the code compile with Visual Studio 2005 with the Windows Mobile SDK.

I tried to implement windows clipboard support to enhance the transfer of texts between the client and server, but unfortunately I was not successful yet. Hopefully someone jumps in and helps enhancing the code and adds some features.

Rdesktop is open source and you can go with the wince implementation here, but if it does not work for you, you have either change the code yourself (and publish it) or find someone that is able to do for you.

There is a template uiports/xxxwin.c in the actual rdesktop source you can use as a starter to compile the actual rdesktop version for windows mobile if you manage to get all the dependencies to work. If you success, forget this post and go with this version (maybe you leave me a note?).

Why another Remote Desktop/Terminal Server Client?

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