Pocket PC and .NET questions

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I am programming an HP iPAQ 1950, running Mobile 5.0, in VB .NET. The
program I am writting will read data from the serial port and display
the data on the screen and send the data over the internet. Question:

1) How can I turn the backlight on (From VB .NET), so users can see the
data on the screen (I don't want to keep the backlight on all the time).

2) I need an acturate time. Does Mobile 5.0 support the NTP protocol? If
so how do I set it up?

3) For questions like above, is there any documentation that I can read?

Thank you. Please don't reply to my return address.

John
 
1) Backlight control is OEM-specific, not the same on every device. I
believe that HP has that capability in a special API set that you can only
get from them, but of course this wouldn't help you if you ran the code on,
say, a Dell.

2) Windows CE 5.0 supports NTP, but that doesn't necessarily mean that
Pocket PC does. You might search (as mentioned below), in
microsoft.public.pocketpc.developer for info on that.

3) You can search the archives of this group via the link below:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...tframework?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Similar searches on the native code groups, microsoft.public.windowsce.* can
also be accomplished, along with microsoft.public.pocketpc.developer.*, via
the GoogleGroups advanced search page.

Paul T.
 
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