Building CF v1.0 apps under VS 2005

[Tim Johnson]

I want to continue building a CF v1.0 app under VS 2005. I've read a number
of the posts on how you can create an appname.config file to specify you
want to use CF v1.0 in the runtime environment (see
http://blogs.msdn.com/stevenpr/archive/2004/12/30/344540.aspx). But isn't
there also something you need to do in the IDE when compiling so it knows
which SDK assemblies to use? Otherwise what's to prevent me from
inadvertently using a CF v2.0-only feature, compling just fine, then failing
when running on a device with only CF v1.0 installed? The IDE lets me
specify debug vs. release, device vs. emulator, why not CF1 vs CF2?

Also it just seems strange I can build my CF1 app under VS2003 and deploy it
as just the exe, but do build the same app under VS2005 I have to also
deploy a config file even if the device doesn't contain CF2. What am I
missing?

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Tim Johnson
High Point Software, Inc.
www.high-point.com
(503) 312-8625

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

When you create a new project in VS2005, you can (for Pocket PC and
Smartphone targets) create a Device Application v1.0 project type which will
be built against the v1.0 framework. You can't easily change an existing
project between v1 and v2 without hacking the project file around, which I
wouldn't recommend.

Peter

 

[Tim Johnson]

Thanks, I'll give it a try. I was trying to see where to update an existing
project which got converted to VS2005 when I loaded it. Sounds like I
should just create a new v1.0 project shell then pour my old code into it.

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Tim Johnson
High Point Software, Inc.
www.high-point.com
(503) 312-8625