Previously, I wrote about signing cab files for Windows Mobile 6. The application was initially created for Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC devices. We got it working on Windows Mobile 6 Pocket PC. Recently, I was tasked with creating an installer application to get around some of the browser inconsistencies they’ve been experiencing with the [...]
I ran into Smart Phone not supporting another control. It doesn’t support button controls. The Smart Phone has a menu at the bottom that behaves as a button. I seem to have troubles finding this article when I need it, so here is a link to help me figure out the user interface options I [...]
I recently encountered an issue where a Windows Mobile 5 application I wrote wasn’t working on a Windows Mobile 6 smart phone. This particular phone was in Spain so I was not able to hold it in my hands. Initially I believed it was because I didn’t have the Windows Mobile 6 SDK installed. I [...]
UPDATE: Apparently, there is a different technology than Authenticode that I should be using for Windows Mobile. After signing the EXE and the CAB file, this worked just fine on Windows Mobile 5. When testing on Windows Mobile 6, I got the following error: “program is from an unknown publisher”. Not only must the EXE and [...]
UPDATE: Apparently, there is a different technology than Authenticode that I should be using for Windows Mobile. Most of the documentation to sign code for the Windows Mobile device assumes you want to do it all through the Visual Studio enviornment. Well I don’t. Here is what you need to do to get your application [...]
Looks like I’ll be doing some Windows Mobile development again since it is going to pay the bills for a bit. Working with CloudSync on their GPS Logging utility. The devices basically log the GPS data at 5 second intervals. This data is then sent in batch to the servers for further processing. The issue [...]