wifi connection application

[Mo]

Hello all,
i am designing a C# CF 2.0 application targeting windows mobile 5.0
smartphone, the app will display the properties of the available
wireless networks and allow the user to connect to a selected network
(the skeleton will look like the Settings->connections->wifi menu) the
reason WM default menu is not enough for our customer that they want
more info about the Access point to be displayed
(such as signal quality, mode, 802.1x protocol, etc) before the user
makes the selection of which network to connect to

so in my app, i want to know whether i can use some of the already
existing dialogs (such as the "New Wi-Fi connection" menu) so i dont
have to re-create this menu from scratch,
how can i start this dialog from my app?

another question, if i want to display the bitmap associated with the
"connected --loli pop-" wifi icon, where i can find that icon? where
can i find the "signal strength icon"?

one more question, smartphone typically have two soft keys which point
to 2 menuitems, i want to add more menuitems
to be embedded into the right menuitem, i can create those menuitems in
VS 2005, but i cant have the same font style
as in WM default menu's (those menu's have the first letter of the
menuitem name underlined) how i can
achieve the same in VS 2005 CF 2.0? the properties box for the
menuitems that i created doesn't allow
me to change the font

appreciate your help, i am new to apps development as i am mostly
device drivers fella
Regards

Mo

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

"Menu?" Maybe this is a SmartPhone thing where what we'd normally call a
"dialog" is called a "menu". In any case, no, you can't really reuse
existing dialogs, although you might be able to tell the Windows Zero Config
components of the operating system to pop up. To figure out how to do that,
you'll have to reverse-engineer what happens when the user triggers it to
display. Use Remote Spy++ to see what messages go where and when, then try
to duplicate that yourself.

If you want to display the icons yourself, best guess is that they're in a
DLL called NetUI.dll. However, you'll probably be better off just
recreating the icons yourself.

The rest is too SmartPhone-specific for me to be of any help; I don't have
one.

Paul T.

 

[Mo]

Thanks Paul, i am new to SF dev as well, i am learning the terminology
as i go
Have a great Thanks Giving
Mo