(Another) stupid question

[Beige Bond]

If I'm developing for XP Embedded with .NET and I try to use COM DLLs
written for XP, will I get hosed?

We were looking at porting stuff to CE, but decided the pain level was too
high. Now we're looking at XP Embedded because it supports the full .NET
Framework (1.0 only, right?), but we still have those outside dependencies
to get serial ports...

Any advice?

And is there anywhere I can get a clear picture of what all the down-sized
OS's Msft markets are for really? CE, Windows Mobile 2003, XP Embedded,
Pocket PC (I think that last one is a hardware platform).

Thanks!

 

[KM]

Beige Bond,

If I'm developing for XP Embedded with .NET and I try to use COM DLLs written for XP, will I get hosed?

No, you will not as long as you satisfy all the dependencies for the COM binaries.

We were looking at porting stuff to CE, but decided the pain level was too high. Now we're looking at XP Embedded because it
supports the full .NET Framework (1.0 only, right?),

..Net 1.1 and .Net 1.1 SP1 Full frameworks arealso availalble from Microsoft in componentized form.

but we still have those outside dependencies to get serial ports...

What problems there?

Any advice?

And is there anywhere I can get a clear picture of what all the down-sized OS's Msft markets are for really? CE, Windows Mobile
2003, XP Embedded, Pocket PC (I think that last one is a hardware platform).

You may want to contact a company that work as system integrator of MS embedded OSes.

KM,
BSquare Corp.
www.bsquare.com

 

[Beige Bond]

Thanks for the quick response! The "outside dependency" is the COM dll to
raise events from the serial ports. I know that's built-in in .NET 2.0.
Fewer dependencies == greater chance of success. What we do isn't
complicated: scan a barcode, run a stored procedure, update a windows form,
lather, rinse, repeat.

 

[KM]

Beige,

To get serial port running you won't need much things in your image.

Components you would need are (at least):
"Communications Port"
"Multiport Communications Port"
"Class Install Library - Msports"
"Class Installer - Ports (COM & LPT)"
"Device: MultiPortSerial"
"Device: Ports"
"Device: Multifunction"

I cannot speak for the COM Dll you mentioned as I never saw it and never explored its dependencies.