WM_HIBERNATE

[paulzazzarino]

If your app has an icon on the toolbar it is supposed to handle hibernate messages. After your app frees up resources can it post a WM_ACTIVATE to keep itself alive or does CE/Mobile shut it down anyway?

[Kowalski]

The application leaves this state either by receiving a WM_ACTIVATE message, in which case it is the application’s responsibility to attain the state it was in before the hibernate, or by getting a WM_CLOSE message, in which case the application will exit properly.
this is taken from MSDN. i didnt have the time to try but what i understand is that the program has the opportunity to send a WM_ACTIVATE message to keep itself alive. but this came confusing to me about the message description

This message is sent to an application when system resources are running low

[paulzazzarino]

actually i found more information at

http://www.cegadgets.com/wincedevfaq.htm#WM_HIBERNATE

this is kind of anoying if true, i am now running tests, but apparently you first get a hiberate, then a wm-close, and finally a process termination.