Installing a Personalized Windows CE 4.2 on iPAQ 4150

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Amir Haghighat wrote:

> Hi
> I am trying to write an application that has a web browser embedded in
> it. This was easy to do for PCs, since I just dragged and dropped the
> IE ActiveX control into my app. But for CE, it's a whole different
> story. There is no IE ActiveX control in Pocket PC since they come
> with PocketIE and not the full version of IE.
> Now my question is whether I can make my own CE .NET image using the
> evaluation version of Platform Builder 4.2, and install that image on
> my iPAQ 4150. Will that mess up anything? (i.e.: the GUI) Will I be
> able to use the ActiveX control, assuming I included the full-featured
> Internet Explorer in my image?

I don't think you'd be successful in what you want to do - you'd need
the drivers for the iPAQ, etc. Windows CE does not equal Pocket PC.

Even if you did get it on your device and somehow semi-working, then
you'd run into problems in reverting it back to a Pocket PC.

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