mixing .NET and .NET Compact DLL's on a PocketPC

[Jo Vermeulen]

Hello,

I'm working on an application which depends on XPath queries. I would
like to port it to the .NET Compact framework though. Is it possible to
replace the usual .NET Compact DLL by a full .NET framework DLL
(System.Xml in this case)?

I would also like to know the procedure for doing this. I noticed that
Visual Studio .NET does not allow me to deploy and "overwrite" the
Compact System.Xml dll when I add a reference to the full System.Xml dll
after deleting the reference to the Compact .NET version.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

No. Full framework assemblies are not retargetable to CE devices for
several reasons. One major one is that they likely use APIs that don't even
exist on the device.

 

[Andrew Enfield \(MS\)]

Nope. Not possible. You'll need to write the code so it uses the XML support
in the .NET CF.

 

[Alex Yakhnin]

Take a look at this blog entry of mine:

http://blog.opennetcf.org/ayakhnin/PermaLink.aspx?guid=2b0fded8-ad78-41e1-8509-3bb9d2343965

 

[Jo Vermeulen]

Take a look at this blog entry of mine:

http://blog.opennetcf.org/ayakhnin/PermaLink.aspx?guid=2b0fded8-ad78-41e1-8509-3bb9d2343965

Unfortunately we cannot use this library with our application. We want
to keep our application free software and bundling a shared-source
library kind of defeats the purpose.

Thanks for your help anyway.

Kind regards,