INFO: VBCE Unsupported Controls, Properties, Methods, and Events (192459)

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The Toolbox in the Visual Basic integrated design environment (IDE) displays the intrinsic controls built into Visual Basic and those added to individual projects.

Some of the intrinsic controls are not supported in VBCE applications, but, because VBCE is an add-in, they cannot be removed from the Toolbox.

The following intrinsic controls are usable in VBCE projects without any other action by the developer:

• CheckBox
• ComboBox
• CommandButton
• Frame
• Label
• Line
• ListBox
• OptionButton
• Scrollbars (Horizontal and Vertical)
• Shape
• TextBox
• Timer

The following intrinsic controls in the default Toolbox are not directly supported by the Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic (VBCE alternatives are listed, where applicable):

Regular VB control     CE equivalent      
----------------------------------------     
Data*                                      
Directory List Box     CE File control    
Drive List Box         CE File control    
File List Box          CE File control    
Image                  CE Image           
OLE Container          none
PictureBox             CE PictureBox      
				

The following controls have Windows CE versions that can be added to VBCE projects:

Regular VB control     CE equivalent      
----------------------------------------  
Grid                   CE Grid            
MSComm32               CE Comm            
TabStrip               CE TabStrip        
TreeView               CE TreeView        
Winsock                CE WinSock         
				

Notes

There is no VBCE control equivalent to the Data control. However, Microsoft has released the ActiveX Data Object SDK for Windows CE (ADOCE) which provides advanced database programmability for VBCE developers. You can download ADOCE from the Microsoft Download Center: For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

General Notes

ActiveX Controls must added to the project using the Components dialog box.

Attempting to add a control to a form not supported in Windows CE will generate an error message.

Additionally, for the intrinsic controls that are supported in VBCE, there are some properties and methods that are not supported.

The following table summarizes unsupported properties, methods, and events in Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic:

Properties	Methods	Events
DataChanged	Drag	DragDrop
DataField	GetData	DragOver
DataSource	OLEDrag	GetFocus*%
DisabledPicture	PopupMenu	KeyDown, KeyUp*%
DownPicture	SetData	KeyPress*%
DragIcon	ShowWhatsThis	LinkClose
DragMode	WhatsThisMode	LinkError
Enabled*		LinkNotify
HelpContextID		LinkEvent
Index		LostFocus*%
LastDLLError		LogEvent
LinkItem		MouseDown, MouseUp*%
LinkMode		MouseMove*%
LinkTimeout		OLECompleteDrag
LinkTopic		OLEDragDrop
MaxButton		OLEDragOver
MinButton		OLEGiveFeedBack
MouseIcon		OLESetData
MousePointer		OLEStartDrag
OLEDrag		StartLogging
OLEDragMode
OLEDropMode
Picture
RightToLeft
SelText (ActiveX)
Tag*
ToolTipText
WhatsThisHelp
WhatsThisHelpID

* These properties and events are not supported for the TabStrip, ListView, and TreeView controls.
% These properties and events are not supported for the Toolbar control.