Today Screen Plugin

[elziko]

I'm following the following tutorial:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/TodayScrn.asp

And to get started I need to compile some eVC source:

Building the Today Screen Plug-in Host
To build the support pieces, do the following.

[Note The tasks must be performed in the order specified as there are some
dependencies between the eVC and VS.NET projects.
Download and install the Today Screen sample. This will install the source
code for all Plug-in projects. See the Architecture section for the details
of each project.]

1) Open the TodayScreenSupport_UnManaged workspace in eVC.

2) Perform a Release build of both the TodayScreenDataMgr and
TodayScreenPlugin_NETCFHost projects. To target actual Pocket PCs and the
emulator perform both an Arm Release build and an X86 Release build.
[Note Be sure that all Library and Include folders reference the folders
associated with the Pocket PC 2002 or 2003 SDKs. You can check the

3) eVC folder settings by choosing Tools/Options and then selecting the
"Directories" tab.]

4) Open the TodayScreenSupport_Managed solution in VS.NET.

5) Perform a Release build of the entire solution.
[Note You many need to modify the directories in the TodayScreenSupportCab
project's TodayScreenSupport.inf file to point to your sample installation
directory.]

On step 2 I can create a release build of the first project for x86 but when
I try to build for ARM I get:

..\ARMV4Rel\StdAfx.obj : fatal error LNK1112: module machine type 'ARM'
conflicts with target machine type 'X86'

Can anyone help me to get going here? I have no experience with eVC

 

[Alex Feinman [MVP]]

Realistically speaking, if you have no experience with eVC, you should not
be doing this. The learning curver will be too steep. Try something simpler
first

 

[elziko]

Realistically speaking, if you have no experience with eVC, you should not

be doing this.

All I want to do is compile the two projects provided in the tutorial and
get a couple of DLLs! I don't need to understand any of the code nor am I
intending to write a today screen plugin in eVC! They are just libraries
that somebody has written to enable you to write today screen plugins in
..NET... which I do have plenty of experience in. Before I can do this I just
need to compile them... is it really that complex?

I'll keep chugging away unless someone has any ideas?