I am about to work on a new mobile application that needs to support Pocket
PC 2003 and Windows CE 4.2 and newer. I am going to start development in a
couple of weeks and hope to have a beta working in 6 months. The application
will have to work unconnected, so it will be using a combination of XML files
and a Sql Server CE database. If you were in my shoes, what development tool
would you use?

1) Visual Studio 2005 - still in Beta - ship date ??? - will it support CE
4.2 or only CE 5.0 devices?

2) Visual Studio 2003 - 1.0 Compact Framework is quite limited

3) Embedded Visual C++ - Tool will be orphaned, but should be stable

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Thanks for your thoughts.

VS2005 only supports CE 5.0 so that takes away option 1

VS 2003 Pro is certainly viable for building apps for all PPCs and 4.x
devices. You will need to pinvoke quite a bit and opennetcf will help you.

eVC may be needed to complement CF 1.0 but I wouldn't personally start a new
UI project based on that.

Cheers
Daniel
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>I am about to work on a new mobile application that needs to support Pocket
> PC 2003 and Windows CE 4.2 and newer. I am going to start development in
> a
> couple of weeks and hope to have a beta working in 6 months. The
> application
> will have to work unconnected, so it will be using a combination of XML
> files
> and a Sql Server CE database. If you were in my shoes, what development
> tool
> would you use?
>
> 1) Visual Studio 2005 - still in Beta - ship date ??? - will it support CE
> 4.2 or only CE 5.0 devices?
>
> 2) Visual Studio 2003 - 1.0 Compact Framework is quite limited
>
> 3) Embedded Visual C++ - Tool will be orphaned, but should be stable
>
> --
> Thanks for your thoughts.
>

I agree.

VS 2003 also integrates the Cab build as opposed to using cabwiz, the
IDE in terms of defining the GUI is much cleaner and it's a lot easier
to "plug in" things like "web references/WSDL" if you are thinking
about using web services.