VS2003 and WM 6.0 debugging

[Markus Humm]

Hello,

I'm using VS2003 for development and won't right now upgrade to
something new as it would require CF 2.0 or higher I assume.

New devices today have CF 2.0 pre installed, esp. WM6.0 devices.
But: I cannot debug on them! If I try I get a message on the
device when it tries to run the app. but:

a) the message is very long, covering nearly the entire screen
b) it is displayed way to short so I can't read it

Now my questions:

1. how can I debug on those devices?
2. who designed this message and esp. that it vanishes so fast?
This person should also vanish...equally fast! ;-)

Greetings

Markus

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

Since you're running against a different version of the .NET CF than what
VS.NET 2003 knows about, it can't effectively debug. I think that's what
the message is telling you. You get the same message if you try to run your
..NET CF 2.0 program in the debugger, against a device that has .NET CF 3.5
in ROM. The IDE doesn't know about that version of the run-time, so you
can't debug against it. If you had VS2005, you'd be able to do what you're
talking about, since it handles both .NET CF 1.0 and 2.0.

Paul T.

 

[Markus Humm]

Since you're running against a different version of the .NET CF than what
VS.NET 2003 knows about, it can't effectively debug. I think that's what
the message is telling you. You get the same message if you try to run your
.NET CF 2.0 program in the debugger, against a device that has .NET CF 3.5
in ROM. The IDE doesn't know about that version of the run-time, so you
can't debug against it. If you had VS2005, you'd be able to do what you're
talking about, since it handles both .NET CF 1.0 and 2.0.

Ah ok. But: why is a message as long as this only displayed 1-2 seconds
so that you cannot by all means read it? Who designed it this way?

Greetings

Markus

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

I can't answer that. I've never tried to used that particular combination.
If you try to debug a .NET CF 3.5 application with VS2005, a similar
combination of 'you can't do that' items, you get a suitable message on the
VS device that tells you what's wrong.

Paul T.