Better architecture for cross-platform project

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From: Stefan Hong (stefan_at_mosp.net)
Date: 09/25/04 

Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:27:28 +0800

I am working on an application that will work on PC, pocket PC and
Smartphone. Obviously each platform must have it's own main Form
design, but I want to share program logic between them as much as possible.

I've searched the archive and found some ideas about using using
multiple project files for the same set of source files, but manually
maintain project file when adding/deleting source files is quite
error-prone, especially when it is maintained by a group of people.

Then I came up with an idea of creating an abstract class subclassing
System.Windows.Forms.Form for shared code, then creates separate
concrete class for each platform handling UI stuff. This sounds great,
until I realized that I can't use the nice form designer in VS.net
anymore. It only recognizes class subclassing from
System.Windows.Forms.From directly.

Is there any better idea to organize the project/code architecture?

Thanks,
Stefan

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