Need to write apps in .NET CF, but can't....

[Vance Green]

OK, here's the deal:

As a MSDN member, I got the VS .NET Professional 2k3
as part of my subscription.

After reviewing the requirements for install, I forge ahead...

Part way through the install it hollers that it needs IE 6.0
to run (I'm at 5.5 SP2).

Just friggin' great-lots of people are still having severe
probs with 6.0, and my 5.5 is running flawlessly.

Oh well, I did a System State Backup just before installing,
and I can go back...

Anyway, get VS .NET up and running, write a couple small VB/CF
apps, and I'm off on the .NET learning curve, yowee!!

Except, my previously well-running system is now NOT, the symptoms
of which you can read about in my previous posts.

So, I uninstall IE6, run a repair or two on my restored IE 5.5/OE5,
and my nicely-running system is back-

except that VS .NET of course will not run, and whines at me to reinstall
IE6.

So, now it's uninstalled as well, and I'm currently reduced to eVB
for my little apps.

I would like to follow the .NET path, as support for eVB will probably
die off.

So, what I'd like to know, is there any ALTERNATE .NET VB/CF development
setup/IDE can get going here which DOES NOT require that I run IE6? I tried
for
two weeks to cure IE6 of it's bad behavior, with no results.

Running W2K, SP4, etc. if it matters.

 

[Amit Chopra]

I have made a cross post to the Setup newsgroup as well to see if they can
advise on how to resolve some of these issues.

Thanks
Amit

 

[Vance Green]

Causes some kind of thread deadlock (I guess)-

GUI slows to a crawl, apps take 10x longer to start,
mouse hover events take 10x longer, etc, etc etc.

All goes away when reverting back to 5.5.

Cpu% OK, paging OK, MEM OK.
No new processes, existing process not using
any more mem. than usual...

 

[Vance Green]

Thanks.

I have made a cross post to the Setup newsgroup as well to see if they can
advise on how to resolve some of these issues.

Thanks
Amit

 

[Lump Kin]

Causes some kind of thread deadlock (I guess)-

GUI slows to a crawl, apps take 10x longer to start,
mouse hover events take 10x longer, etc, etc etc.

All goes away when reverting back to 5.5.

Cpu% OK, paging OK, MEM OK.
No new processes, existing process not using
any more mem. than usual...

I've seen similar probs and thought maybe I was just nuts (which may
still be the case). What I've found is that although cpu% is low,
check memory usage for your devenv.exe in task manager - I bet you'll
see that although your memory usage is not way out of line..
devenv.exe has taken WAY .. WAY.. more than it's share. Even after
exiting the .Net development environment, it still holds tons of
memory hostage. Kill devenv.exe and your system starts playing nice
again.

Rather than try to research the prob further... every hour or so, I
take a "Save Break" and exit .Net, kill devenv.exe and go back to
work. No time really wasted since I normally need the break by then
anyhow

Good luck with your dev ... .
lmpk

 

[Vance Green]

Thx for persisting on this with me-

The problem is, the behavior manifests itself
either with or without VS .NET installed-it's an IE
6 fault.

DEVENV only runs when the IDE is up, correct?