Need a good book on CE .Net Compact Framework

[ch3ckmat3]

Hi,

i want to deploy C# .Net application on Win CE.Net 6.0. The books i have
seen yet are on app development wih VC++ for CE. I need reference of a good
book / resources for application developement using .Net Compact Framework
only for Win CE 6.0.

any help will be appreciated.

TIA

 

[Chris Tacke, MVP]

The MS Press book by Moth, Foot and Wiggley is a great reference. It's not
CE 6.0 specific, but nothing that you'll find is (nor is there a market
large enough to justify trying to write one).

-Chris

 

[ch3ckmat3]

Thanks.
is this the title you refered:
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-NET-Compact-Framework-Reference/dp/0735617252/ref=pd_rhf_f_i_cs_2

What i'm looking to do actually is to deploy Win.Net App on Embedded boards.
as the name suggests, Win CE.Net, there should be a significant weight behind
..Net part of it. but it dosent seem to be the case. You tell me is this a
good idea to deploy .Net App on Win CE.Net? coz eveyone else is doing VC++ on
it.

Thanks,

 

[Simon Hart [MVP]]

I think Chris was refering to this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft®-Mo...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214892516&sr=1-1

I think the book above is targeted more to WM std and pro.

I think you'll be supprised how many people actually are using managed code
now, very few I think are developing from scratch VC++ apps.

 

[ch3ckmat3]

Yes i can see that, its more towards WM CF.

I need a book in which Win CE platform specific development tasks are
discussed, including Platform Builder, how to inject your application in the
OS Image to be deployed on the device etc. Develoment in WM CF is pretty much
straight fowrard and there is so much info online that you possibily dont
need a book on that.

I was exploring Win CE tools when i realized that i need a book for myself
and my team to grasp the environment and tools to deploy .net apps on CE.
This title
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Microsoft-Windows-Third-Reference/dp/0735618844/ref=pd_sim_b_1 is all about eVC++ and merely has a chapter on .Net part.

I'm still looking for a good reference on developing for Win CE.Net.

Thanks anyway.

 

[Simon Hart [MVP]]

I wouldn't say WM using the CF is easy and self explanatory, the platform is
ever changing. There is every need for a good reference to the Dev handbook
(WM) I posted.

I searched for Windows CE books and got a handful back - wasn't difficult:
http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/companion/9780735624177
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming...844/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1214902076&sr=11-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming...f=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214902316&sr=8-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Building-Po...=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214902316&sr=8-4

Just to name a few...

--
Simon Hart
Visual Developer - Device Application Development MVP
http://simonrhart.blogspot.com

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

Platform Builder? What does that have to do with .NET Compact Framework?

There are also a couple of things that you keep doing that suggest that you
have some more online reading to do. You keep referring it as Win CE.NET.
Only Windows CE versions 4.x were "Windows CE.NET". 6.0 is "Windows
Embedded CE". That has *nothing* to do with whether you can use .NET
Compact Framework with the operating system; it's strictly the name applied
to the operating system by the marketing department.

If all you're concerned about is "deployment" of .NET applications to
Windows CE 6.0, there is no book. There's not a big enough market to drive
creation of a whole book on that topic. If you need to know how to build
the operating system with Platform Builder, you should either walk through
the tutorials in the Windows CE 6.0 help or take some training from one of
the Microsoft certified trainers. In neither case is this going to talk in
detail about .NET, but that's a tiny fraction of what you do when building a
new operating system for your hardware. The .NET Compact Framework is
simply a selection that you make for inclusion in your operating system (or
not), in Platform Builder.

So, which is it? You need help developing applications in .NET Compact
Framework or you need help building Windows CE 6.0-based operating systems?
If you'll clarify what it is that you actually need to know, you'll get a
much better response.

Paul T.

 

[Chris Tacke, MVP]

Platform Builder has nothing to do with Application development or the
compact framework and the book referenced probably doesn't even mention it
once (and shouldn't). If you're after Platform Builder info, then putting
"Compact Framework" in the subject of your post and posting it to a Compact
Framework newsgroup is likely not the best way to get good info back.

What you're asking for, then, is a book covering developing the OS. There's
one by Wilson and Havewala that is from the CE 3.0 days. It's dated but
most of the concepts and fundamentals it discusses are valid all the way
through CE 5.0 and if you're developing for 4.x then it's worth having.
Embedded Fusion (since bought by someone else - Google will tell you who)
also had some very good training videos covering CE 5.0, which again is not
very different from 4.x, so those would be well worth purchasing and going
through.

Now if all you're after is getting your application into a CE image, then
open Platform Builder, go to Help and read up on BIB and DAT files. CF apps
must go in the FILE (not MODULES) section. There's not much else to know.

-Chris

 

[ch3ckmat3]

Yes, my bad...i mixed up things...thanks for clarification. And yes development
is easy, we were stuck with the deployment part...but now geting to the point...thanks
for discussion...and good references by Simon too.

Thanks all.


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