Posts tagged ‘windows mobile’

Mobile Development: PingNG-the next generation ping

As I needed a tool to test the maximum MTU size for a network, I needed a ping tool where I can define the packet size and the DF (Do Not Fragment-Flag). As I did not find such a tool, I wrote PingNG.

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It is a simple tool but the code had to avoid some pitfalls.

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Mobile 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 screen plugins very easily.

You just start a Form or UserControl and add the attribute “[TodayScreenItem(“a unique name”)]” before the class. Further on, the framework looks for such plugins dynamically and you can add or remove plugins by just adding or removing DLLs.

I did two plugins, one shows the Intermec device ID and the other enables you to have buttons on the home screen to directly launch applications.

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The first plugin is very simple. An user control that just shows some static text (see the lower info on the screen shot):

today_date_only today_with_apps_and_deviceID

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Windows 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.

Fortunately, if you activated Remote Desktop License Server using ‘Web Browser’ method, you simply have to change the Collections Security settings and disable ‘Allow only … Network Level Authentication’ (NLA).

The following can also apply for Windows 2008 R2 Terminal Server. Check if you activate the Licensing server via “Web Browser” connection or directly. My 2008 R2 server is running OK for Windows Mobile, as a stand-alone server, with 100 licenses and activated via “Web Browser”.

But let start at the beginning.

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Mobile Development: BarcodeLib again ported to Compact Framework

I again ported the codeproject BarcodeLib to Compact Framework. So feel free to use that, if you need one of the supported linear barcode type.

BarcodeLibTestCF

The VS 2008 / WM5 SDK / Full Framework solution is located at github.

A ready to use binary including the lib is at github.