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Articles at Pocket PC Developer Network

• QA: How can I soft reset Pocket PC device?
  October 09, 2001. How can I soft reset Pocket PC device from my embedded Visual C++ program?
• QA: How to suspend Pocket PC device?
  October 08, 2001. How to suspend Pocket PC device from my embedded Visual C++ program? I need the same effect as pressing "Power Off" button.
• QA: How to perform hard reset?
  December 18, 2001. I need to perform the device hard reset programmatically. How can I do that?

MSDN Technical Articles

• Power Notification
  Often developers want to know how an application can know when the system has been suspended and turned back on. While there are plenty of reasons an application shouldn't care if the system has suspended and resumed, there are times when this knowledge is handy.
• Turn Off the Display While Running Applications
  Jan. 7, 2001. This code turns off the Pocket PC display to save precious battery life.

MS Knowledge base

• Q260108 - PRB: Restart Option Is Only Available on Windows CE 3.0
  5/27/2001. The
• Q207988 - HOWTO: Programmatically Suspend Windows CE
  12/25/1999. In addition to use of the power button or idle counter timeout, Windows CE can be switched from the on state to the suspend state programmatically.

Articles at www.cegadgets.com

• Suspending Your Device Programatically
  Have you ever wanted to suspend the user's Windows CE device? Perhaps you have a specialized application that needs to wake up and perform some operation, then suspend. Instead of waiting for the device to automatically timeout and shutdown, you can send a VK_OFF keystroke to the system or use the PowerOffSystem API to suspend the device.

Questions and Answers at www.cegadgets.com

• How do I keep my device from auto-suspending?
  27-Mar-01.
• How do I detect power-on?
  27-Mar-01.
• How can I programmatically turn off the device?
  27-Mar-01.
• How can I get battery status?
  27-Mar-01.
• How do I reboot/reset the device?
  27-Mar-01.
• How can I determine whether the device has been rebooted/reset since the last time the application ran?
  27-Mar-01.
• How can I turn on the device when the serial port has activity?
  27-Mar-01.
• Why should I pay any attention to WM_HIBERNATE?
  27-Mar-01.

Innovative Decision Support Systems

• Turn the device power off in eVB
  9/16/01. Putting a CE device into its hiberate mode is simple with a call to GwesPowerOffSystem.