Anybody know anything about wince programming?

Basically, I am pooh pooh. Long time since I have programmed anything other than the microwave to ding in 4 minutes my ruby murry!

What I need is the code to call a program already on the device. It a very basic 2 button form.

Button1 calls \sdmmc\app1\app.exe
Button2 calls \sdmmc\app2\app.exe

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Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

End Sub

Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click

End Sub
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I need all code, assume I know nothing (I actually don't). I am doing it in dev studio\vb\smartdeviceapplication. I tried the shell command (as per vb) but no go.

Simples - as our friend Mr Meerkat would say! THAAAAANKS (i'd even paypal a fiver to the person that gives working code)

This is how I'd do it on a big machine:

Code:

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System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("notepad")

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but with a CE device your mileage may vary.


(substitute some other process for 'notepad')

Can't take credit for this, but google can. But here c# pinvoke example which could be converted to vb.net. As some sites suggest that System.Diagnostics.Process.Start is not in winCE but that may be dated info?

Code:

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Duncan King
For anyone who's been following this (or has the same problem) -
here's the code that actually works:

public class Externals
{
[DllImport("CoreDll.DLL", SetLastError=true)]
private extern static int CreateProcess(
    String imageName,
    String cmdLine,
    IntPtr lpProcessAttributes,
    IntPtr lpThreadAttributes,
    Int32 boolInheritHandles,
    Int32 dwCreationFlags,
    IntPtr lpEnvironment,
    IntPtr lpszCurrentDir,
    byte [] si,
    ProcessInfo pi );

[DllImport("CoreDll.dll")]
private extern static Int32 GetLastError();

private static bool CreateProc( String ExeName, String CmdLine,
ProcessInfo pi ) {
    if ( pi == null )
        pi = new ProcessInfo();

    byte [] si = new byte[128];
    return CreateProcess(ExeName, CmdLine, IntPtr.Zero, IntPtr.Zero, 0,
0, IntPtr.Zero, IntPtr.Zero, si, pi) != 0;
}

public static void LaunchIE() {
    if(!CreateProc("iexplore.exe", "http://pocketpc.msn.co.uk";, null)) {
        throw new Exception("Could not launch IE");
    }
}
}

public class ProcessInfo {
    public IntPtr hProcess;
    public IntPtr hThread;
    public Int32 ProcessId;
    public Int32 ThreadId;
}

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Wow, monkies (or is it monkeys) everywhere today!

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start does not work. Will try code above _ I couldn't find anything on the googly woogly!

Seems like lots of code just to call one app...

Thinking about it, I have visual studio so if you can write code in c# that would do too :D