Platform Builder 5.0 Price

[bartlomiej.szafraniec]

Hi!
What is the price of Platform Builder 5.0?
Is it included in Visual Studio 2005?
Where I can download it?
Regards,
Bartek

 

[Guest]

PB is *not* part of Studio. IIRC the price is around $1k. You can download
an eval version from www.microsoft.com/windows/embedded but you can't buy it
from MS. You have to buy it from a distributor. Links to them are also in
the link above under "How to Buy".

The fact that you don't know this typically indicates you probably don't
need it. You are aware that PB is for actually creating the OS, not for
developing applications?

 

[Henrik Viklund]

Hi!
What is the price of Platform Builder 5.0?

Price depends on the distributor but it's in the US$ 900 region.

Is it included in Visual Studio 2005? No.
Where I can download it?

Trial version is abvailable at:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/embedded/windowsce/default.mspx
....but it's a *massive* download so my advice is to order the DVD
version either from MS or from a distributor near you (see
http://www.mswep.com for partners) .

Henrik Viklund
http://www.addlogic.se

 

[bartlomiej.szafraniec]

The fact that you don't know this typically indicates you probably don't
need it. You are aware that PB is for actually creating the OS, not for
developing applications?

Do you think that it would be useful for developing drivers for mobile
devices?
I need good tool for profiling (memory, cpu, threads) my application
for windows ce.
This application is written in Compact Framework 2.0.

Do you know anything that would suit best for this purposes?

Regards,
Bartek

 

[Henrik Viklund]

For driver development PB is more or less a must. For profiling native
apps, you can use PB but it's primarily used for deveopling OS images
for embedded devices. For application profiling you may want to check
out entrek's products for profiling windows ce applications
(http://www.entrek.com). If you're doing managed projects PB won't be
particluarly useful. There's a simple but yet powerful performance
monitor provided with CF2 SP1
(http://blogs.msdn.com/stevenpr/archive/2006/04/17/577636.aspx).

Henrik Viklund
http://www.addlogic.se