Learn how to write a useful smart currency converter tool with Visual Studio .NET 2003 for the Pocket PC 2002/2003, which works both in offline and online modes.

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A Selection Bar for the PocketPC 2002

12 Mar 2003 by João Paulo Figueira

An implementation of the selection bars found on PocketPC 2002 applications.

XMLite: simple XML parser.

11 Oct 2004 by Cho, Kyung-min

Easy to access and simple XML parser

Useful Macros for Pointer Verification

20 Oct 2002 by Andreas Saurwein

A few macros to validate pointers passed to functions

ATL OLE DB Consumer Template Schemas

6 Feb 2005 by João Paulo Figueira

Exploring SQL CE 2.0 schema information with the ATL OLE DB Consumer Templates.

ShakyVoice - A voice stress analysis tool

26 May 2004 by Vladimir Ralev

This is an implementation of a simple voice stress analysis tool for Pocket PC; it can be used on the road as a lie detector.

Smart Device Login Application Using the SQL Server CE Database

9 Jun 2009 by saurabhmsoni

A comprehensive guide to development of .NET 2.0 Smart Clients with SQL Server CE Database

Porting a registry viewer application from Pocket PC to SmartPhone 2002

25 Oct 2003 by Yaroslav Goncharov

Porting process of the registry viewer sample from the user interface design to the implementation details.

Why Windows Should Have Tight Control Over The WinExec function

26 Jun 2002 by John Aldrich

A brief description with proof of concept code detailing why finer execution control is needed with the Windows OS family.

Advanced critical section

8 Jul 2002 by 0xdeadbeef

Advanced critical section which features TryLock and timeouts

A Beginners Guide to Templates - Part 1

24 Jul 2002 by Stefan Spenz

An article about basic function and class templates

Tiny Singleton helper class

8 Aug 2002 by Cho, Kyung-min

SingleT will provide you the easy way to get Singleton pattern.

CObjBroker - Limited Resource Broker class

8 Aug 2002 by Cho, Kyung-min

If you are working with limited resources in a multithreaded scenario, ObjBroker will help you...

VMemPool - Virtual Memory Pool Management class

8 Aug 2002 by Cho, Kyung-min

If you deal with same size objects in server coding, VMemPool shows a good way for beginners.

Loading images with an undocumented API in PPC 2002

12 Aug 2002 by Tanzim Husain

This article describes an undocumented API that enables you to load images (bmp, gif etc.) from files under Pocket PC 2002

Using a system tray application to check , send and configure emails

25 Aug 2002 by Ragavendran Vaidhyanadhan

This article demonstrates creation of a system tray application ,creation of processes , reading and writing XML data

Display PNG, JPG, etc. on Pocket PC

22 Sep 2002 by Jim Koornneef

Combine CXImage and DibSectionLite on Pocket PC.

Determining Threading Limits For Multi-Threaded Network Applications

30 Oct 2002 by John Aldrich

This article will explain a method of benchmarking a W9X/W2K/XP based computer to determine the maximum safe level of thread usage while keeping the system able to process other input without entering into a freeze condition.

Binary Sorting Into a std::list

9 Dec 2002 by #realJSOP

One technique for performing a binary insertion sort on a std::list

Enable floating SIP control in IPAQ/Windows CE .NET

10 Dec 2002 by CT CHANG

Enable floating SIP control in iPAQ/Windows CE .NET devices.

Accessing MS SQL Server CE v1.0/v2.0 without ADO

2 Mar 2003 by CT CHANG

Add, edit, and delete records/table/database in MS SQL Server CE v1.0/v2.0.

Quick and convenient way to build STL strings.

9 Jul 2013 by Taka Muraoka

A quick and convenient way to build STL strings.

Power up the TCP/IP capability in your PocketPC application

19 Dec 2002 by CT CHANG

Establish a TCP/IP connection to other applications.

A quick way of implementing a Pocket Outlook - type letter strip

12 Jan 2003 by João Paulo Figueira

Implementing a letter strip control for record selection.

Colour Picker Control for Windows CE

5 Feb 2003 by João Paulo Figueira

An implementation of the Office 97 style Colour Picker control for Windows CE.

.NET class to create and maintain vCalendar information

6 Feb 2003 by slolife

.NET class to create and maintain vCalendar information

A Date and Time formatter

19 Feb 2003 by João Paulo Figueira

A class to format COleDateTime objects into strings using standard formatting codes.

Importing Type Libraries

23 Feb 2003 by Heath Stewart

Using alternatives to importing type libraries and COM objects can improve the portability of your source code.

Handling tap-and-hold

28 Feb 2003 by João Paulo Figueira

Tips on how to handle tap-and-hold user commands.

The CxProgress Class - Time, progress and rate estimations made easy

13 Mar 2003 by TomKat

When you download a file from the Internet you have to find the transfer rate. This class does it with 3 easy lines of code !

Multiple Toolbars in the PocketPC 2002

16 Mar 2003 by João Paulo Figueira

Handling multiple toolbars - Pocket Word-style.

Disabling top-level popup menus in the PocketPC 2002

19 Mar 2003 by João Paulo Figueira

How to eneble and disable top-level popup menus in the Command Bar of PocketPC 2002 applications.

A File Open Dialog for the PocketPC 2002

26 Jan 2004 by João Paulo Figueira

An implementation of a full-browsing file open dialog.

Memory mapped files and flat table primitives.

6 Apr 2003 by c-smile

Source C++ classes for persisting flat table data.

Double-click on the Trace Message in the Output Window in Developer Studio to Get to the Line of Code

14 Oct 2005 by Sheng Jiang 蒋晟

Take advantage of the output window in Developer Studio

CCeListCtrlEx for Pocket PC 2002

14 May 2003 by Daniel Strigl

A owner drawn list control to emulate a single select list box with a little icon at the beginning of each line.

Property sheet callbacks in the Pocket PC 2002

25 May 2003 by João Paulo Figueira

How to insert title and footer links in Pocket PC property sheets, using MFC

A prototypical PocketPC program

7 Jun 2003 by ljw1004

A complete PocketPC app in plain Win32/C++.

Customizing the DocList

7 Jun 2003 by ljw1004

Manipulate the "Folders" drop-down in a PocketPC 2002 application.

Manual uninstaller for PocketPC

7 Jun 2003 by ljw1004

If you don't want to use CAB, this is how.

Using MSXML to Read XML Documents

7 Jun 2003 by ljw1004

How to read XML documents using MSXML, in a modern C++/template manner

XSLT to transform Excel XML spreadsheet to CSV or HTML table

15 Jul 2003 by jemodurn

XSLT to transform Excel XML spreadsheet to CSV or HTML table.

Automating the Installation of .NET Compact Framework applications

31 Aug 2003 by Girish Nurani Sankaranarayanan

An article on automating the installation of .NET Compact Framework on Pocket PC devices.

A font chooser dialog for the Pocket PC

16 Aug 2003 by João Paulo Figueira

Implementing a font chooser dialog with preview and ClearType support.

CPathSplit

20 Aug 2003 by Kochise

CString based path splitter.

Header Bars in Windows CE Using Win32

30 Aug 2003 by EK_Kiwi

Creating and using a header bar style control in Windows CE.

Creating a HeaderBar Control in MFC

7 Sep 2003 by EK_Kiwi

Creating and using a header bar control in MFC in Windows CE.

A Wizard-like property sheet for the Pocket PC

19 Sep 2003 by João Paulo Figueira

Implementing a wizard-like dialog on the Pocket PC using property sheets.

Tracing for Compact Framework apps

8 Jun 2004 by Jose Luis Balsera

This article proposes a solution that mitigates the lack of debug console, when building Compact Framework-based Pocket PC apps.

Introduction to Pocket PC Development

26 Oct 2003 by Girish Nurani Sankaranarayanan

An overview of Pocket PC development, including information on development tools and languages available.

Building applications with Mono

6 Nov 2003 by victor vatamanescu

Developing .NET cross platform applications using mono and IBM DB2

Customizing Visual Studio's Code Generation Templates

12 Dec 2003 by sh856531

A simple tutorial showing how we can customise the templates used by VS when it generates source code for us.

CHM Reader for Pocket PC 2003

29 Feb 2004 by Peter Tewkesbury

Allows the reading of CHM files on a Pocket PC2003.

Tiny Template Library: variant

23 Feb 2004 by kig

An article on how to implement and use variant<>. Variant is useful for creating heterogeneous containers and much more.

ToDoList Viewer - PocketPC Viewer for .dan.g's ToDoList

9 Aug 2004 by Kyle Tillman

A read only viewer of the ToDoList XML for the PocketPC.

A light stack implementation for Win32

18 Mar 2004 by Daniel Junges

A simple and very small stack implementation for any type.

Creating Pocket PC Application Setup Packages Using CAB Wizard - 1

17 Jun 2004 by Girish Nurani Sankaranarayanan

A beginner level article describing the creation of Pocket PC application setup packages using the CAB Wizard application.

A Simple Template Based Smart Handle Class

4 Apr 2004 by Paul Ranson

A template class that allows Win32 object lifetimes to be managed 'smartly', includes an example memory mapped file wrapper.

Need a flashlight for your PocketPC?

18 Apr 2004 by MichaelCoder

This is an article on how to make a flashlight out of your PocketPC

Video Streaming in Pocket PC 2002

20 Apr 2004 by Tuan Nguyen

An article on creating a streaming video player for Pocket PC.

Flight Log Book

21 Apr 2004 by Nicolas Gaillet

Log Book for Flight Planner.

CDList

26 Apr 2004 by Anne Saouter

Application useful to archive your CD

MS SQL Server mail queue

13 May 2004 by Dan Glass

Mail queue using a SQL database

Implementing the DT_END_ELLIPSIS flag on the Pocket PC

16 May 2004 by João Paulo Figueira

Extending the DrawText function to display truncated text with a terminating ellipsis

Thin Client for Microsoft Visual SourceSafe on Pocket PC / SmartPhones

25 May 2004 by Gerald Naveen A

Thin client for Microsoft Visual SourceSafe on Pocket PC / SmartPhones targeting .NET Compact Framework.

Weather Info

27 May 2004 by Shane Church

Weather Info uses Web Services on the .NET Compact Framework to display weather information on the Pocket PC.

Pocket AniEd - Pocket PC Based Animation Editor

27 May 2004 by Lewey Geselowitz

Pocket AniEd allows anybody to quickly and easily make beautiful and smooth animations without a background in computer animation or any unnecessary complexity.

Using WinCE for Quality Inspections

28 May 2004 by Terence Wallace

A demonstration of what can be done using Windows CE.

Black Box for the Pocket PC

28 May 2004 by rb01usa

A cool puzzle game for the PocketPC.

Very Fast Splitter with support for (Multi-Characters) String Separator

17 Jun 2004 by Remon Zakaria

Very fast Split function that has the ability to treat a multi-character separator as a single separator or the regular multi separator characters.

A closer look at XML Data Binding, including a product appraisal

18 Aug 2004 by Sprotty

An introduction to XML Data Binding, and a review of a number of leading products.

Sending an SMS using CEMAPI

13 Sep 2004 by EK_Kiwi

How to send an SMS using the CEMAPI APIs.

Push and Run .NET Code on Remote Machine

10 Mar 2005 by Jim Wiese (aka Spunk)

Execute an assembly on a remote machine without any special hooks - works on existing assemblies!

Disable WM2003 CAB Install Alert

22 Dec 2004 by Chad Cheng

How to disable WM2003 CAB install alert

Singleton Design Pattern with the Compact Framework

9 Feb 2005 by JSaunders

Create single instances of forms using the Compact Framework.

Full screen feature in .NET Compact Framework

14 Mar 2005 by CT CHANG

Enable full screen mode in .NET compact framework applications.

MD5 Hash Calculator Pocket PC 2003/Windows CE 4.x

17 May 2005 by mwahlberg

A small tool for calculating a MD5 hash.

Windows Mobile – Remove the "Backup Battery Very Low" Notification Balloon

30 Aug 2005 by Channa Jayasinghe

How to remove the annoying “Backup Battery Very Low” (bogus) critical notification programmatically.

Pocket PC Numeric Key Pad

3 Sep 2005 by João Paulo Figueira

An easier way to accept numeric input on the Pocket PC.

Create animation in dotNet with alpha-blending PNG images by calling API

6 Jul 2007 by nguyenthanhtungtinbk

This article shows you the advantage of PNG images with alpha-blending feature in creating animation and demonstates how to use PNG images in Framework.NET application by calling API

Speaking Garmin

14 Dec 2005 by David Nissimoff

Covers the basics needed to get a Pocket PC and a Garmin GPS talk in their own language and to graphically display the calculated data.

Enumerating Serial Ports On Pocket PC

10 Dec 2005 by advatronix

C++ Class to enumerate COM ports on Pocket PC

Controlling Hardware Buttons on Pocket PC

12 Feb 2006 by Mick Doherty

Controlling hardware buttons, the easy way...

Dynamic Linked List Tree

18 Feb 2007 by AhmedEssamNaiem

Using Vector and double linked list to create trees

Developing a wireless workflow automation client on Pocket PC/PDAs with a Web Service

3 Mar 2009 by Zenab_Zenab

This article focuses on developing a workflow client device application for Pocket PC in C# 2003.

5 Steps to Adding Data Replication to a Windows Mobile Application

18 Apr 2007 by Liam Cavanagh

The purpose of this article is to show how to add data replication to a mobile application through the use of .NET (C#).

ARM Assembly for eVC with the Mono Jit Macros

14 Jul 2007 by Sjoerd_B

ARM assembly for eVC with the Mono Jit macros

Launch an Executable Programatically on Windows Mobile using CreateProcess and C#

4 Jul 2007 by Liam Cavanagh

The following article explains how to launch an executable from within your application on Windows Mobile using C#.

How to encode/decode URLs to the UTF8 format (with %20 and so)

17 Jul 2007 by Daniel Cohen Gindi

This article shows how to encode/decode URLs to the UTF8 format (with %20 and so) if you have to have web support in your application.

WBXML Support in C# - Handy

1 Nov 2007 by Tamir Khason

Open source class to handle WAP Binary XML in C# and CF C#

SmartCalc, A scientific calculator for SmartPhone.

17 Nov 2007 by Mehran Ghanizadeh

This lite calculator, written in VB.NET, not only can be useful for installing on your smartphone as a real powerful scientific calculator, but also, can be used for learning some good ideas which I've learnt while developing it.

Accepting Signatures from Hand-Held Devices

26 Dec 2007 by Zeeshan Haneef

An article on drawing graphics on a hand-held device touch screen.

XML Serialize Hashtable, Collections and Generics using IXmlSerializable interface

18 Jun 2008 by Romain TAILLANDIER

This article shows how to use XmlSerializer to serialize types that usually cannot be XML Serialized

A Gradient Button for Windows Mobile

5 Jul 2008 by Ravenet

A gradient button for Windows Mobile and the .NET Compact Framework.

Introducing Lucene.Net

28 Sep 2008 by AndrewSmith

A plunge into creating a fast, full text index, with advanced searching capabilites.

Own your phone - Taking back control of your mobile phone

2 Jan 2009 by BrainThump

We'll build a call management application for Windows Mobile 5.x/6.x which can programatically ignore, send to voicemail, or SMS-respond to unwanted calls.

Use Psion Teklogix 753x SDKs to Read/Write RFID Tags

2 Feb 2009 by Babak Ansari

Work with the PtxRfidNet.dll SDKs to read/write RFID tags and Farsi language in hand-helds.

Bluetooth for Microsoft Device Emulator

31 Jul 2009 by Dmitry Klionsky

Bluetooth for Microsoft Device Emulator enables Bluetooth communication from and to the emulator.

Compact Framework Process class that supports fully specified file paths

30 May 2009 by Frank Th. van de Ven

Terminate a process, or check if it is running, using the full file path. It also enumerates processes returning the full path to the running EXE file.

Using WCF in .NET Compact Framework

14 Jun 2009 by Artem S. Dmitriev