This article describes how to work around the inability to add Bee Mobile iPack CF39 controls to toolbox of Visual Studio 2012 / 2013. Microsoft admits that it is not possible to add custom controls which target Compact Framework v. … Continue reading →

If you want a Bee Mobile control to display a PNG image, you usually have two choices. You can either add the PNG image to the control from your project’s resources or from a file (some controls provide even more … Continue reading →

A lot of people are asking for help regarding PNG image decoding on Windows CE Windows Embedded Compact 7 Windows Embedded Compact 2013 so let’s shed some light into this topic.

You may notice that on some builds of Windows CE, Windows Embedded Compact 7, Windows Embedded Compact 2013 (and other Windows Embedded operating systems) the OS animates the showing (opening) of a form by drawing expanding rectangles animation. While some … Continue reading →

One of major drawbacks of Windows CE is that if you output text to the screen, then by default it is aliased. By putting out a text on the screen I mean putting a control on a form which displays … Continue reading →

One of the powerful features of TLabelAnimated is that you can write your own custom animator for it. The custom animator allows you to completely customize the way TLabelAnimated animates the text within it. Let’s say your TLabelAnimated is not … Continue reading →

This is the second part of the article about Windows Mobile programming tricks. The reason I created this article is that the following tricks either cannot be achieved using pure managed code or they are not easy to find out … Continue reading →

In this article I will describe some tricks which many Windows Mobile developers may need while developing for .NET Compact Framework platform. The reason I decided to write this article is that because the following tricks either cannot be achieved … Continue reading →

Abstract This article shows how you can: Download data from the local mobile database within sdf file. Create iPhone-like GUI on Windows Mobile to display the data. Create functionality to search the table data. Polish the app by adding some … Continue reading →