Posts tagged ‘Compact Framework’

Windows Mobile: watch the memory footstep of running processes

Some times ago I posted my remote cpu usage monitor. Now here is a similar tool but for logging the memory. You can now watch the memory usage of processes remotely for example when you test an application.

There are two tools: vmUsage and vmUsageRecvr. You may use the mobile vmUsage alone and just use its logging. The other tool receives the memory status information on a PC and enables long time logging and export to a csv text.

vmusage   memeater-vm   excel-linechart

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Mobile Development: A remote cpu monitor and cpu usage analysis

cpumon2 and cpumonRcv

Although this project is not yet finished, the main function works very well: viewing cpu usage remotely and capture data to database for later analysis.

Some of the ideas and code is inspired by a cpu usage article at http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/159461/Mobile-Processor-Usage. Further on I got more questions the last days like “Why is app x running slow?” or “When I start that app, the system gets slow and taskmanager shows a high cpu usage.”.

Here are two tools to capture cpu usage of a windows mobile device remotely via a TCP/IP connection.

cpumon2   cpumonRcv

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Before you read on, the code is by far not perfect and there are still many improvements possible. But if you need a working remote cpumon, here we go…

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Mobile Development: Analyze QRcode content on Windows Mobile

QRreaderWH6

You possibly know these QRcodes that make your phone open a web site or add a contact. Unfortunately there is no such function on Windows Mobile and I just wrote a demo of such a functionality:
A demo app to show how these nifty QR barcodes are encoded to hold URLs, business cards, appointments or other data. Further on, the application shows how to use QR code reading and import or launch the appropiate application for the QRcode content. The demo uses ZXing.Net to encode text into a QRcode barcode image but ZXing or ThoughtWorks code to decode QRcode images as the latter was easier to use. Then there is a list of sample encodings to show you how to specify a vcard or SMS or others to be encoded into a readable QRcode.

After start of the app and then simply click in the type list at the top and select for example “vcard”. In the sample field you can see how a vcard is to be encoded:

BEGIN:VCARD
N:Heinz-Josef Gode
ORG:ACME GmbH
TITLE:Systems Engineer
TEL:0123456789
URL:www.hjgode.de/wp
EMAIL:heinz-josef.gode@somewhere.com
ADR:Musterstrasse 1
NOTE:Support Engineer
END:VCARD

Now click [decode&encode] and you get the QRcode image and the cleaned content:

  

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