Each Bee Mobile control which is inherited from BeeMobile.Common.DoubleBufferingControl (and that is the case for majority of them) uses 3 bitmaps to speed up the drawing.
Technical articles
Issues with Visual Studio Designer
March 14, 2020
Symptoms:
- Properties are missing in Properties pane.
- Some properties cannot be edited.
- Properties are dimmed in the properties pane.
- Descriptions for the properties are missing.
Bee Mobile iPack: Can’t find PInvoke DLL ‘BeeMobile.Common.dll’
July 14, 2019
On some Windows CE devices you may receive the error:
Can’t find PInvoke DLL ‘BeeMobile.Common.dll’
PNG decoder on Windows CE, WEC 7
October 14, 2018
The presence of PNG image decoder in your OS depends on the presence of SYSGEN_IMAGING_PNG_DECODE variable during the build of OS image.
AlphaBlend – where does it come from?
February 11, 2018
Based on our experience, if a Windows CE (Windows Compact 7) device fails to draw transparent controls, it is because it is missing AlphaBlend function from its WIN API. AlphaBlend function is present in coredll.dll. During the build of the OS image the OS designer can choose, whether AlphaBlend function will be present or will not be present in the OS by setting / not-setting the SYSGEN_GDI_ALPHABLEND variable.