.NET Compact Framework and PDA

[Guest]

Hi all,

We recently were asked to do maintenance of an already developed mobile
application running on PDA. The app is already deployed and used on PDAs.

Now we received change request. We completed the changes requested using
VS.NET 2003, .NET Framework 1.1. Now I have not used .NET compact framework.
If I deploy my binaries created on our regular .NET framework, will the
binaries work in production system on PDA? Also:
a. What is .NET Compact framework?
b. From where to download it?
c. Can .NET Framework and compact framework run on same machine?
d. Which version of compact framework to use so that it is compatible with
VS.NET 2003 and .NET framework 1.1?

Help is appreciated.

VJ

 

[Daniel Moth]

No your desktop binaries will not run. Read carefully the content and follow
all the links from here:
http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2005/11/getting-started-with-net-compact.html

Cheers
Daniel

 

[Guest]

Dear Daniel,

Thanks for your inputs. I have been through the URL. But still I have
following questions:

The specification file we received from client says:
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows Mobile™ 2003
Second Edition.

Now my questions:
a. Does this mean I need to uninstall Windows Professinal 2000 and install
Microsoft® Windows Mobile™ 2003 Second Edition?

b. Which software I need as development tool i.e. I cannot use VS.NET 2003.
Then which software should be installed?

c. Any SDKs etc should be downloaded that is required to produce the
binaries that will support MC50 specification (this is device from Symbol)?

Help is appreciated.

Regards,
VJ

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

a) This is referring to the OS on the device, not on your development PC.
Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition consists of two "flavours" one for Pocket
PC devices which are touch screen driven, and one for Smartphone devices
which are keypad driven.

b) You will need either VS2003 Professional or higher (And the Windows
Mobile 2003 SDKs which are available as a separate download) or VS2005
Standard Edition or higher (has Windows Mobile 2003 support built in)

c) As stated in B you'll need the Pocket PC 2003 SDK if you use VS2003, this
will plugin additional project targets for the Smart Device Application and
Pocket PC 2003 Emulators. In VS2005 you'll have all you need. If you need to
access any hardware which is specific to the Symbol device which is not part
of the Pocket PC platform, e.g. barcode scanner etc, then you'll need to
find out from Symbol whether they have an SDK for the device.

Peter

 

[Rüdiger Kardel]

in addition to Peters answer:

c) http://devzone.symbol.com
you have to register first - then "developers downloads"

Ruediger

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Thanks friends for your valuable inputs. Following is my understanding. Pl.
rectify in case required:
a. My current PC has Windows 2000 OS with VS2003.
b. I will now download and install Windows Mobile 2003 SDK.
c. I understand that I do not need to install .net compact framework. Pl.
confirm.
d. Then I just compile my app and deploy on Symbol Pocket PC. Do I need to
download any drivers from Symbol site? As I would be using .NET's built-in
emulator for testing.

Also the MC50 spec document for Symbo PDA says that their processor is
Intel® XScale™ 520 Mhz processor. Now once I compile with the above steps,
will the binaries run on client's Symbol PDA since my PC is a regular desktop
PC.

Regards,
VJ