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Working with Control Panel (Settings) applets. Writing Control Panel applets.

Articles at Pocket PC Developer Network

  • Creating Control Panel Applet
    August 17, 2001. Pocket PC contains a Settings item in Start menu that is similar to Control Panel on desktop computers and we will call is Control Panel. This article describes how to create your own applet in Control Panel.
  • Using Control Panel
    August 10, 2001. Sometimes we need to show a control panel applet (a control panel page) from our program. That may be necessary when users of your program change some system settings often and you want to provide an easy interface for that. This article shows how to open a certain control panel applet from your program.
  • QA: How can I get information about Control Panel applets like dialog names, icons, etc?
    August 26, 2001. How can I enumerate existing Control Panel applets, get corresponding applet icons and names?

MSDN Technical Articles

MS Knowledge base

  • DOC: Selecting the Icon Group for a Control Panel Dialog Box
    6/29/2000. When you create a Control Panel application for Pocket PC, a dialog box's icon may appear in one of three different Settings pages. CPL_IDNAME is a new message that allows the Control Panel application code to select one of these three icon groups for each dialog box. Documentation for this message is not in the Pocket PC SDK that is included with Microsoft Windows CE eMbedded Tools version 3.0.

Libraries

  • STControlPanel
    C++ library. Library for working with Pocket PC Control Panel. Allows to show any applet (page) of the Control Panel.
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