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Speed of the forum. Maybe a solution?

Hi all,
I don't know, how about you guys, but last weeks the forum speed was terrible for me...
There were some threads, about it before, but i think this could be a soultion. However, it could also be just a coincidence.
So I think, that the problem is not directly in the forum, but in the DNS resolution of it's internet name.
So what i did today?
There is a file in "C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc" (on w2k - maybe different on XP) called "hosts".
you can assign names to IP addresses there, so the system will not query DNS server for the IP address. UNIX/linux guys know, what i'm talking about..
so I added these two entries there:
Code:
82.94.252.245 xda-developers.com
82.94.252.245 forum.xda-developers.com
And the forum is now faster than FAST...
However, as I said, it could be just a coincidence and someone finally fixed the forum's webserver or something else.
buzz

The best solution is to develop a set of skins for the forum that will be optimized for small-bands (WAP), low-bands (56k modems) and high-bands (adsl...)
This will boost the speed of the forum and will save lots of money for both hosters and visitors

Works for me buzz!
I have Windows XP Pro so the location of the hosts file was C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
Nice find - Well done! 8)

IMate->WM2k5 said:
The best solution is to develop a set of skins for the forum that will be optimized for small-bands (WAP), low-bands (56k modems) and high-bands (adsl...)
This will boost the speed of the forum and will save lots of money for both hosters and visitors
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I agree. When I browse this forum through GPRS the traffic goes through the roof. PDA version of the forum would be nice...

WISH LIST - Post here

Let's post here the features we'd like to have by default in our WM6 rom.
Just to start mine:
1) Ability to print every printable file, by BT or WIFI or Active Sync, directly from Trinity, either on a lan printer and on a shared printer of a lan pc.
2) To have a shared folder on the device, accessible from the pc in lan, just to drag&drop files, a behavior like a laptop..
3) A working Voip program, with the option to store at least 2-3 sip accounts, and MAINLY with the audio working on the earphone, and not on the external speakerphone.

zooster said:
Let's post here the features we'd like to have by default in our WM6 rom.
Just to start mine:
1) Ability to print every printable file, by BT or WIFI or Active Sync, directly from Trinity, either on a lan printer and on a shared printer of a lan pc.
2) To have a shared folder on the device, accessible from the pc in lan, just to drag&drop files, a behavior like a laptop..
3) A working Voip program, with the option to store at least 2-3 sip accounts, and MAINLY with the audio working on the earphone, and not on the external speakerphone.
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WISH LIST...LOL
And then what you are going to do with this?
Make request to the cookers??? LOL
If you'd like this features then cook a ROM to yourself with this things...
Anyway I would like to see you making request to the cookers:
" I've made this wish list so cook a ROM specially for me"
LOOOOOOL

mikhe69 said:
WISH LIST...LOL
And then what you are going to do with this?
Make request to the cookers??? LOL
If you'd like this features then cook a ROM to yourself with this things...
Anyway I would like to see you making request to the cookers:
" I've made this wish list so cook a ROM specially for me"
LOOOOOOL
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well xmas is just arround the corner!!!
Wish u luck

The sarcasm is just dripping off this topic, you can smell it, lol
Mate, there are some things that just can't be done with a WM6 device, we have to face it.
Someone asked for Mac OSx to be put on the trinity a few weeks back, when told it wasnt possible, he said "Nothing is impossible ,try and try"
Then someone wanted a password screen on his bootloader, when told that wasn't possible, he said "where there is a will there will always be a way"
They are both very stupid and don't understand a thing about technology, I pity them, I see this thread going the same way.
Best of luck getting what you want for Xmas by the way I'm looking forward to getting a wooly jumper again, lol!

Well I think wish list is a good idea, it shows the demand people needed that can help inventors/developers to understand and try to meet people's need. Some people will pay a lot of money for their demand and this can turn out to be a good business too!!!
As for my wishlist...
1. A pda phone that has widest possible screen, but also the slimmest possible, with all the ability of the up to date settings (qwerty keyboard,gps,3.5g, bluetooth, wifi, multi-touchscreen and etc)
2. A very good battery life on the phone (that can run 3.5g line for at days without charging, maybe?)
2. A good hardware-software performance that can maybe helps to get rid of the need of a computer while on the road/business trip.
That's all, cheers!!!

zooster said:
Let's post here the features we'd like to have by default in our WM6 rom.
Just to start mine:
1) Ability to print every printable file, by BT or WIFI or Active Sync, directly from Trinity, either on a lan printer and on a shared printer of a lan pc.
2) To have a shared folder on the device, accessible from the pc in lan, just to drag&drop files, a behavior like a laptop..
3) A working Voip program, with the option to store at least 2-3 sip accounts, and MAINLY with the audio working on the earphone, and not on the external speakerphone.
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It's a very good idea to think about a "printer plug-in" for HTC P3600. All old hp ipaqs with windows mobile 2002/2003 version used to have this. I don't see why people criticize so much. There are more useless threads than this(asking for a solution without searching for example and repeating it for 1000 times). This is a good thread to express someone's demands. May/may not be rom cookers can have a different point of view.
I don't know what rom you have , but you've got already shared folders on BT or on wifi(network shared).

Ooopppsss
Didn't realize that the wishlist is about the wishlist for a ROM cooking, as I saw the thread title is too general, therefore I just put the general wishlist.
However, still not a bad idea to start for a wishlist thread though, as if we hope that it will be done and shows what we desire rather than asking someone to do it for us. Furthermore, wishlist is not asking directly from people to develop ROM for you, but showing a list from a lot of people that can help cookers to cook a suitable ROM that meet everyone's needs.
Cheers!!!

Best idea if it is considered !
1 - have a auto config to use trinity with the freephonie
2 - have a video conferencing/calling program
3 - have a OCR decryptor to export a photo in text
4 -...

I would like to have in HTC Home, the number of incoming sms-calls-mail coloured like red when u get something, just to distinguish easily when u have received something new.
And I'd like if in zoom sms the time of the received sms is shown ,as well as the number of the sender, and to have a reset of the counter of missed calls when u press the zoomsms key of lost calls (it can reset the sms counter in htc home, but not the missed calls one).

Ftp server for windows mobile

Hi all,
i just released a ftp server for mobile.
more information at
remorftpmobile dot wordpress dot com
its a first version for test only.
thank you all

Wow, good work! I'll have to keep a close watch on this project

Dave, it is already available for download, please try it!!
thanks!

Seems fine but its a bit too much stuff like the "client commands", "serial key" and stuff, I would like to have those options in another menu, not in the main screen. I want a mobile-FTPserver to be easy with a simple interface where I just have to set the portnumber login and password and see my wireless-IP. And ofcourse a Online and Offline button.
I could set it up but got some errors, don't remember. When I got connected it asked for a password.. I had set it to none on both login and pass but I couldn't get through in the win7 ftp explorer. Then I tried with the standard "user/pass" login and got through but then it told me that I didn't have sufficient rights to view the contents.
However I think you've got a nice program going here and windows mobile needs a few competent apps for this, I haven't searched much but it doesn't seem to be many FTPserver apps out there for wm..
So keep it up mate! I hope you will take my opinions into consideration The best ideas are the easiest ones!
EDIT.
And post some screens here also and mabye the cab attached?

Hi mattie,
thanks for your evaluation!! Sure i'll consider your oppinion, i'm doing it right now. I am now migrating it from lazarus LCL project to KOL project. It will become smaller, because 1,8Mega is too much. I think that it will became less than 1M.
The firtst thing is organize it in pages as you suggested.
About your connection try. You should certify yourself if the windows explorer is configured to connect in active mode. The passive mode is not implemented yet (but on the way). To set it as a active mode you can look at my page (remorftpmobile dot wordpress dot com/projects/remor-ftp-server/how-to-use/). Sorry i cant post URLs. About the problem with permission it is not normal because you are running a FAT32 file system and permission is just read only mode. Windows sometimes gives the permission error but it was not the real problem. My questions:
1) Do you tried to delete some file that was in use or something similar? What action gives you the error?
2) What is your device and WM version?
I'll post some screens and the CAB when i finish the KOL version. Should be this week!!

Releasing a free version
Hello all,
after taking some time to do this ftp, o got some other work to do which set me away from this project. But i still using it every day even with some errors
After all, i decide to open the code to share the development with all, so that way we can do a better program. I used lazarus with kol.
Attached you can find the source code and the last cab if you are not a programmer. I hope that i can find some other people with interrest on this project, so i can get motivated to continue it
I dont know any public subversion rep, if any of you have a suggestion...
that's it.

great
Nice work!!!
I wish I could support this project but unfortunately I'm a .NET-developer and not very common with Pascal/Delphi.

My First App, Need Serious Help :/

Hey guys, like the title says, I'm attempting to create an app, but with little success at this point.
What I want to do, didn't sound all that complicated in my head. I want to make an episode guide for a TV show I like. Nothing too fancy, but I do want it to look WP7-authentic.
First off, I don't know or really understanding coding in the slightest. I was hoping to be able to design most of the app through the on-screen WP7 display, which it seems I can do a lot on.
From what I've gathered, here's what I'd like to do:
Use the "Pivots" as the different story arcs or "seasons"
Within each pivot, Episode # and Title
But I'd also like to go one further and have each episode be clickable, which would take the user to a page containing info about the respective episode. Synopsis, International Titles, Airdate, etc.
It's a big project, I just need a little help getting it going.
Thanks!
dbG33K

what you're describing can be done one of two ways.
1. just display images after images
2. input text into the program
from what im gathering, it should be fairly easy for you to do as this is the sort of beginner stuff in most windows phone 7 programming books. id suggest you look into programming because even the slightest pivots and transitions require code.
now if you were on android or webos, thats different. they have full on graphics based programming thats a simple matter of drag and drop and choose function.

Download Expression Blend. You can do pretty much everything without having to write any code. It includes a "Pivot" template which has a pivot all ready for you, then you just add PivotItems using your mouse. Then you can use the Sample Data feature to mock up how your episode data will look.
The only thing you would have to write code for would be to pull the episode information from a datasource. Bind it to your controls and Expression will have the rest done for you.
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/windowsphone/
Sample Data:
http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/ee426896.aspx

First thing you'll need before you even open Visual Studio or Blend is a data feed.
An rss feed is ideal, And I'm sure theres alot of them out there for TV listings. Without that, theres little you can do (other than screen scraping websites, but people don't look too kindly on that)
If you can find me a Url for the RSS feed you want to use, I'll be more than willing to help you out

xanderkaiber said:
First thing you'll need before you even open Visual Studio or Blend is a data feed.
An rss feed is ideal, And I'm sure theres alot of them out there for TV listings. Without that, theres little you can do (other than screen scraping websites, but people don't look too kindly on that)
If you can find me a Url for the RSS feed you want to use, I'll be more than willing to help you out
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What he said
I'd be willing to help you out as well. I'm in the process of writing a feed reader to help me make the move WP7 from WPF/Silverlight. The idea I have for the UI is similar to yours and the feed reader (at least in the basic form) will be open source so I've no problem sharing my code...

I appreciate your willingness to help me out, but it's actually a series that has been over for quite a while.

Hey guys, I've gotten much further on my app and have become a little more well-acquainted with coding in the form of using Expression Blend 4. That said, I do have a few questions:
1. After making a few pages, I decided to make a sort of Welcome page for my app. How do I tell it to show that page first instead of "MainPage.xaml"?
2. On that welcome page, I would like to make a button that pulls up the user's E-mail and have it have my e-mail as the recipient.
Thanks a bunch!

This is in the WMAppManifest.xml file within the Properties folder.
for the email look into the email compose task

barryallott said:
This is in the WMAppManifest.xml file within the Properties folder.
for the email look into the email compose task
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That doesn't really help me too much...
What am I supposed to do in the WMAppManifest.xml?
And where do I find the email compose task, and how do I implement it into the app?
EDIT: Nevermind, I figured out both of those questions. A new question, though: How do I take screen shots of the app? I need at least one to submit it to the marketplace, but I don't know how :/

dbG33K said:
That doesn't really help me too much...
What am I supposed to do in the WMAppManifest.xml?
And where do I find the email compose task, and how do I implement it into the app?
EDIT: Nevermind, I figured out both of those questions. A new question, though: How do I take screen shots of the app? I need at least one to submit it to the marketplace, but I don't know how :/
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Download this:
http://www.innovativetechguy.com/?p=13
Make sure your emulator is set to 100% size and uncheck the "Show Device" checkbox in the tool. That will give you the necessary 480x800 sized .png

There's a fair lot you can do using the designer panel, but you will definitely need C# code for what happens 'behind the curtains'. Things like pulling the episodes from the internet and such.
I definitely recommend these tutorials:
Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners.
It builds up slowly, but definitely gives you the foundation you need to put together basic applications.

Hey guys I found this thread and after reading it I feel I have a lot in common with dbG33K's tasks & questions. I feel I have a lot to offer WP7 apps as I learn more! I started out in January learning and studying as an absolute beginner (even did the 5 day course online). After a lot of studying, I felt confident enough to write my first BIG app.
I'm pretty good at the xaml part and getting real familiar with c# as I go along. Also, I think I have all the pieces I need, just need help putting it all together. I'm using an API for the data source (i have all the dlls and resources in place even all the c# methods for the API).
I have the UI all put together, now working on the c#. I'm just unsure on the binding part. I know my listboxes and other controls should be binded to a method in c#, but what calls that method? When the page loads that listbox, textblock, etc? Also, what kind of coding is generally used inside the {} of the methods that pulls info from the datasource?
As I have learned a lot aver the past couple of months, I find that I've learned it from examples I've found online, but I'm drawing a blank on this one. Any help would be great!
Thanks!

Do any of you can tellme how can I save text from the text box??
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Nodo with SQL

Hello there,
I am developing a game for wp7, and I want to have a user login with skills an level. This users and levels I want toread and write from an SQL database.
But until now I found no API to connect. Is there any free solution to implement a database in wp7 (not linq)?
Thank you
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Nope, not in Nodo. You have to use linq-To-XML. This should be perfectly fine for small amounts of data.
If you can wait for Mango you can use a SQL CE database, but you still need to use Linq-to-SQL:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh202860(v=VS.92).aspx
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I know linq as a local database.
If I understand right linq-to-SQL is a one time sync? So I have to sync linq and SQL in the beginning and end of game.
So I would create for each user a linq db and then all linq dbs would be synced in SQL?
Sounds difficult, but I will give it a try this we
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win98 said:
I know linq as a local database.
If I understand right linq-to-SQL is a one time sync? So I have to sync linq and SQL in the beginning and end of game.
So I would create for each user a linq db and then all linq dbs would be synced in SQL?
Sounds difficult, but I will give it a try this we
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Sorry, do you want to connect to a remote SQL database on a webserver, or a just store a database on the phone itself? If on the phone itself, you can create on database for each user (Mango only).
If you want to sync with a remote server, you will need to interact with the server using some sort of Web Services. Then the Web Services do the reading/writing to/from the SQL sevrer and send the information back to the phone (you can currently do this in Nodo).

It should not be local, if its possible.
I want to subscribe on a free SQL host like I've of these: http://www.free-webhosts.com/free-mysql-database.php
Then I want to do the user management there and want do update the level and skills of the user who is logged in. A bit like a windows live account with the gamer points.
I would be glad if I can use SQL commands with c#.
I hope it become more easier to understand . Thank you for helping.
Do you got any sample code or tutorial how to use SQL in wp7? I failed :-D
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With NoDo, you can't directly access an SQL server.
And even with Mango, I'd be careful doing such a thing, it can really be dangerous on many levels.
The best solution would be to use a web service, which could be accessed from your phone (via the WebClient class) and would handle the dirty work of connecting to the database and executing SQL queries (eg. inserting or retrieving data and outputting in XML format). This way even if you alter the structure of your database you don't have to change a single line of code in the app (that means you'll avoid resubmission), but only the web service code.
As a general suggestion, handle the more things you can server-side.

SQL Protocols are not really designed to work over slow/unreliable connections like the Internet, especially when it comes to 3G and so on. So it really would be best to encapsulate everything into a WebService to which you then send the Nickname, Game and Score and which allows to get the top rankings as well as a given players rankings.
I guess we won't see the ability to connect to remote SQL Servers through ADO.Net as it most likely would lead to bad user experience anyhow.

StevieBallz said:
SQL Protocols are not really designed to work over slow/unreliable connections like the Internet, especially when it comes to 3G and so on. So it really would be best to encapsulate everything into a WebService to which you then send the Nickname, Game and Score and which allows to get the top rankings as well as a given players rankings.
I guess we won't see the ability to connect to remote SQL Servers through ADO.Net as it most likely would lead to bad user experience anyhow.
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i am good in sql and there are free sql hosters, thats why i wanted to try it with sql.
so, the webservice, is this kind of php? can i also get some free hosters for these services?
i found in google some sample code, but i dont understand where the data will be "stored". Is this going to be like a "cloud app"
edit: grrr looking for "free webservices" in goog but i just find free homepage hosting sites

I find this topic really interesting because it tackles something I just can't wrap my head around: getting Windows Phone 7 to interact with a SQL database just doesn't seem like it's been explained in a straightforward enough manner.
For instance, my case is one where I need my app to extract info from a MySQL db stored on my website, parse that data and display each entry as an item in a pivot control. Turns out that no, SQL is not supported natively so I must go out of my way and recode my data into something that WP7 can understand; I read it's XML and that makes sense, so I have designed an auto-updating XML file on my website with data I want fed into the WP7 app. This is a workaround to connecting directly to a SQL database, as it only requires there to be a PHP file periodically creating an XML file with the info I need and it won't expose any SQL connection credentials, etc. I do not manage users on my site, so maybe win98 needs to find a way for WP7 to call a PHP page, send it a user ID or something and then retrieve that user's info. But any way, I think XML can work perfectly as a means to communicate between SQL and WP7 apps.
But, I don't know how to make this XML file populate the pages of my app. In Expression Blend I can import the XML as sample data, but it does this during design time and not at run time. This means that Blend can see my data and display it how I want it displayed, but I can't take this to runtime and have it displayed like that on the phone. So far, I haven't seen a single easy to follow step by step tutorial on how to parse information coming from an XML file on a WP7 app.
Any suggestions on how to overcome this hurdle we both face? I am familiar with web programming, but I know jack sh*t about C#, so Linq is greek to me.

Ok so I really got this wrong, that with Mango you get SQL and ports support so that you can remotely interact with an SQL server, with sql commands pretty much like you would do on a desktop and how you could do with WinMo ??
Best practices aside, You still get to do that with webservices ?