ANN: OpenNETCF Source Code Drop

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

After a pretty long hiatus, we've updated the OpenNETCF namespace and
provided a source drop. There are several bug fixes plus the addition of a
GPS library and a ToolHelp library.

The source can be downloaded here (bottom of the page):
http://www.opennetcf.org/sdf

Chris Tacke, eMVP
Co-founder
OpenNETCF.org

 

[Pascal Berger]

After a pretty long hiatus, we've updated the OpenNETCF namespace and
provided a source drop. There are several bug fixes plus the addition of a
GPS library and a ToolHelp library.

are there any plans for a new release?

thanks
pascal

 

[Miha Markic [MVP C#]]

Hi Chris,

Ooo, great, I was just getting ready to write my GPS classes

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

Of course.Releases take longer to build and test, so I've got no idea when
that's going to be. We hope to drop source refreshes for all namespaces
over the next week or so.

-Chris

 

[Pug]

Hi Chris,

Ooo, great, I was just getting ready to write my GPS classes

--
Miha Markic [MVP C#] - RightHand .NET consulting & development
miha at rthand com
www.rthand.com

After a pretty long hiatus, we've updated the OpenNETCF namespace and
provided a source drop. There are several bug fixes plus the addition of
a
GPS library and a ToolHelp library.

The source can be downloaded here (bottom of the page):
http://www.opennetcf.org/sdf

Chris Tacke, eMVP
Co-founder
OpenNETCF.org

any news on a fix for the datetimepicker not working correctly when the
updown control is used?

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

The Windows.Forms namespace wasn't released. If the fix has been
implemented in the source (and I don't know if it has, I don't do a lot with
the Forms namespace) then it will be in the next drop, which we plan for
this week.

-Chris

Hi Chris,

Ooo, great, I was just getting ready to write my GPS classes

--
Miha Markic [MVP C#] - RightHand .NET consulting & development
miha at rthand com
www.rthand.com

After a pretty long hiatus, we've updated the OpenNETCF namespace and
provided a source drop. There are several bug fixes plus the addition of
a
GPS library and a ToolHelp library.

The source can be downloaded here (bottom of the page):
http://www.opennetcf.org/sdf

Chris Tacke, eMVP
Co-founder
OpenNETCF.org

any news on a fix for the datetimepicker not working correctly when the
updown control is used?

 

[gerry]

Any plans on releasing some documentation on the proper/official build
process ?
Having the source is pretty useless if you can't usefully compile it.
Or have I missed something somewhere ?

gerry

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

We don't have an official document for building, though it's really no
different than any library. Open the project, compile. The only issue you
may have is that we sign our assemblies so they are GAC installable, so you
may have to remove the link to the key file in the assembly.cs file.

-Chris

 

[gerry]

Is there a seperate design time library ?

We don't have an official document for building, though it's really no
different than any library. Open the project, compile. The only issue you
may have is that we sign our assemblies so they are GAC installable, so you
may have to remove the link to the key file in the assembly.cs file.

-Chris

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

The OpenNETCF namespace has no UI elements, so no. Whe
OpenNETCF.Windows.Forms does have designer support (it's not in this drop).
The code has #defines in it for determining which version it should be
building (there are similar defines for NDOC uilds as well).

-Chris

 

[Guest]

Hi Chris,

Way to go on the GPS classes. Writing a GPS library becomes a large
project fast, when you consider things like precision, unit conversion for
speed and distance, support for coordinate systems, and nuances of various
GPS devices. I've spent all year just on GPS for .NET and am up to 50+
classes (http://www.gpsdotnet.com/Support/Documentation).

Precision is especially important to build into a GPS library in order
to be considered suitable for business use. This is because GPS devices will
happily transmit coordinates inaccurate by two American football fields.
Unfortunately, many developers believe that they can simply use all data from
their GPS device right away, which has and will cause problems. As you
proceed with the library, try to encourage developers to monitor precision in
order to determine if positional information should be trusted or ignored.
This will ensure that the OpenNetCF library does not inadvertantly lead to
poor GPS programming practices for multiple applications.


Kind regards,

Jon Person
Senior Developer, GPS.NET