OpenNETCF controls and VS.NET 2005 Beta2

[Lonifasiko]

I'm now only working with VS.NET 2005 Beta2 (uninstalled 2003) and I
have both CF installed on the system. Can I use now OpenNETCF as I did
with VS.NET 2003?

I can't achieve importing OpenNETCF's v1.3 controls to VS.NET's
toolbox. I browse into designer folder and try to load Windows.Forms
controls library but gives an assembly error.

I know that V1.4 only targets VS.NET 2003 in English, their home page
says that, but hace they any plan to develop their controls for CF 2.0
and integrate them with VS.NET 2005?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

It'll definitely happen, it's a matter of redoing all the designer support
since the architecture is completely changed in VS2005. You can reference
the v1.4 dlls from a VS2005 project, but you'll have to add the controls to
your forms via code rather than the designer at this stage.

Peter

 

[Lonifasiko]

Thanks Peter for the aclaration, I supposed it was that so I'll add
controls by code. However, I'll also expect anxiously OpenNETCF's new
release targeting CF 2.0 and with VS.NET 2005 ;-) You all (OpenNETCF's
collaborators) have done and continue doing a really awesome work!

I think OpenNETCF continues being a really good alternative or
"complementary" framework and I've seen it is still necessary for Smart
Device development. I was quite convinced about CF 2.0 including all
OpenNETCF's controls and functionalities, but I've seen that I was
wrong.

Thanks and kind regards.