Controls in form

[Mats Boberg]

Hi,

I converting a paper servicereport to a pocket pc form.

I get a unknown exception when the controls on the form gets over a certan
amount. Is there really a limit how many labels, textboxes and checkboxes
you can have in a form? The exception occurs when the form has about 150
controls. The compilation works fine...

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[Maarten Struys, eMVP]

Most likely you run into a 64 KByte limit in one of the methods, probably
InitializeComponents. You can find some background information and possible
solutions to solve your problem here:
http://headblender.com/joe/blog/archives/microsoft/001151.html.

 

[Mike Hildner]

This FAQ talks about a NotSupportedException, maybe it's related?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/prodtechinfo/devtools/netcf/faq/default.aspx#4.10

 

[Mats Boberg]

Thanx for the fast answer.

I just found out that i only get the exception in the emulator. As a release
deployed in pocket pc it still works. I hope all fields in the report will
fit without splitting them up in diffrent forms. The application loads in
3-5 sec, so its not really a problem yet.

/Mats.

 

[Justin Weinberg]

You can manually reduce the number of method calls in the
InitializeComponent method by changing loc and size assignments to bounds
pairs. This may be enough to solve your problem.

If you don't want to do this manually, we created a VS add-in that does this
and other CF code optimizations for $23.95 at
http://www.mrgsoft.com/products/ICO/


Justin Weinberg