Kiosk Mode progrmming

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Martin Robins

I am looking for a way to tie down a PocketPC 2002/2003 device to running a
single, compact framework based program.

I have looked through google searching for various combinations of keywords,
but can find nothing suitable; the closest that I have gotten is the Kiosk
mode article on http://www.pocketpcdn.com/articles/kiosk_mode.html, but this
is not for the CF.

Has anybody sucessfully acheived the following in a single cf application:
* Disable start menu
* Run application full screen
* Still enable the use of the MainMenu control and the SIP
* Automatically run at startup without allowing the user to
access the start menu before the application begins
* Still faciltate exiting to the operating system (via some kind
of authentication) for administrators

I look forward to any help you may offer.

Thanks.
 
That looks like the kind of thing that I am looking for, but it is a bit
ouside my price range. What it does however is to prove that what I want can
be done!

Any suggestions on how to achieve the same with .NET CF?
 
... And a better WinCE or Compact Framework "can be done". It will take
a REALLY outstanding developer working for a couple of decades!

If you are good enough, believe me it will cost you much more (time and
money) if you decide to build it yourself!

SPB Kiosk costs below $1,000, and it is royalty free. It is the
equivalent cost of 2-4 man days of a developer!

I simply don't get it!
 
Actually, I have craked most of it already. A combination of the FindWindow,
SHFullScreen and SetForegroundWindow API's along with a few registry tweaks
courtesy of opennetcf.org.

Cheers.
 
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