VS.Net CF/desktop problems

[Mike]

I'm building a CF DLL that can be called by the desktop environment and on a
PPC device. I have a solution that contains test programs for both. (I need
to run/debug the device and desktop apps simultaniously.) I have two related
problems:
- Even though the build dependencies seem okay, VS insists on deploying
projects in the solution that that to not depend on current active target.
(I need to (un)check them each time in the config mgr manually.)
- My desktop test application (that links against the CF-compliant DLL (as
well as desktop-only ones) that worked fine before now brings up the
deployment popup asking if I want to run in the emulator or the device - but
I want neither, I want it to run in the full desktop environment, but this
choice is not provided - how do I reset this? Note I'm not trying to write a
winform app that will run in both places (although it would be nice for some
of these test apps) but simply trying to call the same DLL from both places.

Also, is there a way see if a certain exe or set of DLLs is CF-compliant w/o
waiting until runtime to get MissingMethodExceptions?

thanks

MSDE 7.1.3088

 

[Jan Yeh [MVP]]

Hello, Mike

For the first Q, you can right-click at your project in solution explorer of
VS.NET,
and then select [Debug] - [Start a new instance..] . This will compile and
run specified
project only, instead of whole solution.

And the second Q, you may try the same action mentioned above to execute
desktop program alone, and see if the dialog appears or not.

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Best Regards,
Jan Yeh

eMVP, MCAD, .NETcf Developer
Mobile Mind Company @ Taiwan