Saturday, February 26, 2005
Building a Mobile Book Catalog
Posted by Peter Foot in "DEVELOPER" @ 07:00 AM
Microsoft have published a set of exercises to demostrate building a book catalogue application for Pocket PC using the .NET Compact Framework. Once you've downloaded and installed the package you'll find a number of exercise projects added to your start menu. However you'll have to locate the accompanying article manually which can be found at:-
C:\Program Files\Windows Mobile Developer Samples\2-2--5 Building a Mobile Book Catalog with Visual Studio .NET 2003\NetCFBookCatalog.doc
Exercise 3 describes using the Platform APIs to display the wait cursor, or spinning wheel, however for that specific scenario you don't actually need to use Platform Invoke as you can simply use the Cursor object:-
[code]Cursor.Current = Cursors.WaitCursor[/code]
And then hide it with:-
[code]Cursor.Current = Cursors.Default[/code]
C:\Program Files\Windows Mobile Developer Samples\2-2--5 Building a Mobile Book Catalog with Visual Studio .NET 2003\NetCFBookCatalog.doc
Exercise 3 describes using the Platform APIs to display the wait cursor, or spinning wheel, however for that specific scenario you don't actually need to use Platform Invoke as you can simply use the Cursor object:-
[code]Cursor.Current = Cursors.WaitCursor[/code]
And then hide it with:-
[code]Cursor.Current = Cursors.Default[/code]
