ANN: New Article: Using GDI+ on Windows Mobile

[Guest]

We've published a new article on the OpenNETCF Community Site.

Alex Feinman covers how to use GDI+ in your Windows Mobile managed
applications.

In case you missed them, our other recently published articles include:

- Sharing Windows Mobile Ink with the Desktop
- OpenNETCF Mobile Ink Library for Windows Mobile 6
- Improving Data Access Performance with Data Caching
- Developing Connected Smart Device Applications with sqlClient
- Debugging Without ActiveSync
- Image Manipulation in Windows Mobile 5.0
- Don't Fear the Garbage Collector

All of our articles are available online at:
http://community.OpenNETCF.com/articles



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Chris Tacke, Embedded MVP
OpenNETCF Consulting
Giving back to the embedded community
http://community.OpenNETCF.com

 

[Hilton]

Chris,

This is for WM5. In my code, I have a method (let's call it)
Misc.IsWM50OrLater. How would I use the code in your article in my code so
that it would run on PPC 2003 or WM5 and do the right thing; i.e. ignore
shading etc on PPC2003, but shade on WM5 (or later)?

Am I the only person maintaining compatibility with CF1 and PPC 2003 to run
on (almost) all Windows Mobile devices? Having said that, our next major
release might target WM5 (or later), but I feel very uncomfortable forcing
folks to install CF 2 (sorry, I went off on a little tangent).

Thanks for these articles and I love the PDF availability!

Hilton

 

[Guest]

I'd probably create a base class or interface that you create the proper
child of depending on platform, then nop the calls for shading, etc. in the
PPC 03 version.


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Chris Tacke, Embedded MVP
OpenNETCF Consulting
Giving back to the embedded community
http://community.OpenNETCF.com

 

[Alex Feinman]

For LOB applications this is not so much of an issue, since corporate
devices get replaced often enough for them to have run out of anything
PPC2003. Besides, you can always require CF2 as a prerequisite. For the
end-user apps, yes, I'd say you are right. That's why I don't really want to
go there.