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From: iistudio on 20 Sep 2005 19:58
hi guys:
I am trying to use RAPI to transfer contacts from my Sprint newest windows
mobile 5 phone to my pc.
since the database now are embedded and stored as pim.vol. i first tired to
use RAPI CeMountDBVol to mount the pim.vol but failed. the error code seems
to be 87 invalid parameter all the time.

am I missing some point here or some security policies blocked RAPI from
working with contacts database on the phone?

thanks for you reply
From: Peter Foot [MVP] on 21 Sep 2005 03:50
The PIM databases are not only stored in a standalone volume, but are also
an EDB (rather than CEDB) database. It doesn't appear from the documentation
that the RAPI database methods cater for dealing with EDB. You may need to
write code which runs on the device side to interact with EDB or better
still go through the proper POOM API and then interact with this using rapi.

Peter

--
Peter Foot
Windows Embedded MVP
http://www.inthehand.com | http://www.peterfoot.net

"iistudio" <iistudio(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> hi guys:
> I am trying to use RAPI to transfer contacts from my Sprint newest windows
> mobile 5 phone to my pc.
> since the database now are embedded and stored as pim.vol. i first tired
> to
> use RAPI CeMountDBVol to mount the pim.vol but failed. the error code
> seems
> to be 87 invalid parameter all the time.
>
> am I missing some point here or some security policies blocked RAPI from
> working with contacts database on the phone?
>
> thanks for you reply


From: iistudio on 21 Sep 2005 17:23
thanks Peter:
my objective here will be to directly retrieve contacts database information
from
a desktop pc.

I think first i need information about EDB and if i can use RAPI to get
the pim.vol file is there any way to get contacts in the file?

secondly is there any difference Microsoft made in the RAPI 2 interface to
work with EDB?

thanks very much


"Peter Foot [MVP]" wrote:

> The PIM databases are not only stored in a standalone volume, but are also
> an EDB (rather than CEDB) database. It doesn't appear from the documentation
> that the RAPI database methods cater for dealing with EDB. You may need to
> write code which runs on the device side to interact with EDB or better
> still go through the proper POOM API and then interact with this using rapi.
>
> Peter
>
> --
> Peter Foot
> Windows Embedded MVP
> http://www.inthehand.com | http://www.peterfoot.net

From: Robert Levy [MS] on 23 Sep 2005 01:32
You should only be accessing PIM data through the POOM APIs.

RAPI currently does not have an EDB equivalent of it's CEDB APIs but that's
definitely something we're looking to address in a future release.

--
-Robert Levy
Program Manager, Windows Mobile Developer Experience
http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile

"iistudio" <iistudio(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:27820D02-2152-4073-B6EF-306515EB3252(a)microsoft.com...
> thanks Peter:
> my objective here will be to directly retrieve contacts database
> information
> from
> a desktop pc.
>
> I think first i need information about EDB and if i can use RAPI to get
> the pim.vol file is there any way to get contacts in the file?
>
> secondly is there any difference Microsoft made in the RAPI 2 interface to
> work with EDB?
>
> thanks very much
>
>
> "Peter Foot [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> The PIM databases are not only stored in a standalone volume, but are
>> also
>> an EDB (rather than CEDB) database. It doesn't appear from the
>> documentation
>> that the RAPI database methods cater for dealing with EDB. You may need
>> to
>> write code which runs on the device side to interact with EDB or better
>> still go through the proper POOM API and then interact with this using
>> rapi.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> --
>> Peter Foot
>> Windows Embedded MVP
>> http://www.inthehand.com | http://www.peterfoot.net
>


From: iistudio on 26 Sep 2005 17:59
thanks for that Robert:
Now i have tried to access PIM data using the POOM API and put it
into a device side dll then try to do what Peter said to use RAPI to
CERapiInvoke
the routine in the dll, the problem is due to the new RAPI security policy i
probably need to do some extra work to get my CERapiInvoke permitted on the
device?
do you have any information regarding this for my case? hopefully i don't
need to send an application to the device and then change rapi security
policy.

thanks


"Robert Levy [MS]" wrote:

> You should only be accessing PIM data through the POOM APIs.
>
> RAPI currently does not have an EDB equivalent of it's CEDB APIs but that's
> definitely something we're looking to address in a future release.
>
> --
> -Robert Levy
> Program Manager, Windows Mobile Developer Experience
> http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile
>
> "iistudio" <iistudio(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:27820D02-2152-4073-B6EF-306515EB3252(a)microsoft.com...
> > thanks Peter:
> > my objective here will be to directly retrieve contacts database
> > information
> > from
> > a desktop pc.
> >
> > I think first i need information about EDB and if i can use RAPI to get
> > the pim.vol file is there any way to get contacts in the file?
> >
> > secondly is there any difference Microsoft made in the RAPI 2 interface to
> > work with EDB?
> >
> > thanks very much
> >
> >
> > "Peter Foot [MVP]" wrote:
> >
> >> The PIM databases are not only stored in a standalone volume, but are
> >> also
> >> an EDB (rather than CEDB) database. It doesn't appear from the
> >> documentation
> >> that the RAPI database methods cater for dealing with EDB. You may need
> >> to
> >> write code which runs on the device side to interact with EDB or better
> >> still go through the proper POOM API and then interact with this using
> >> rapi.
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> >> --
> >> Peter Foot
> >> Windows Embedded MVP
> >> http://www.inthehand.com | http://www.peterfoot.net
> >
>
>
>
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