Re: Running smartdevice applications (CF) on the desktop from VS.N

From: David Jones (davejones_at_rmit.edu.au.nospamplease)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 04:35:02 -0800

Your answers on the newsgroup were spot on; ie anticpated what I was on about.
My situation is that I am runinga lab of PCs with the intention of teaching
Win CE app development. My problem is that the Win image isa a VMWare
Virtual Machine on which teh emulators don't run.

I think I will go down the multiple platform approach.

I look forward to .NET. Will create a VS2005 VM and try it all there.

PS We did not have any authoritive reasons for trying to run CF apps on the
desktop. We tried it (and it worked ) because it seemed like it should; if
CF is a true subset of the FW (except for its extensions, and pinvoking).

Thanks again.

"Daniel Moth" wrote:

> Debugging CF apps on the desktop with CF 1.0 is not supported (with CF 2.0
> it is possible but still not supported). You know that running (not
> debugging) CF apps on the desktop is possible:
> http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2004/09/retargetable-256.html
>
> Even if you could debug them, remember that your code will be running
> against the desktop framework where some things are different (including
> different bugs <g>). The closest alternative you have is to create a desktop
> project with the same source files and debug that:
> http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2004/09/share-code-if-fullframe_17.html
>
> Cheers
> Daniel
> --
> http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/
>
>
> "David Jones" <davejones@rmit.edu.au.nospamplease> wrote in message
> news:B96EB62F-D68E-48C2-B0FC-52BFAAAA91A6@microsoft.com...
> > Provided you don't use CF Framework extensions, it is possible to compile
> > and
> > run CF (smartdevice) application on the desktop. I would like to do so
> > from
> > VS.NET so as to be debug them. The emulators don't work in my development
> > environment: using a VM.
> >
> > Any ideas how you might launch a CF (smartdevice) application directly on
> > the desktop for debugging from VS.NET?
> > OR
> > If I have a compiled (debug) CF application (smartdevice , VB or C#) is it
> > possible to load the compiled files into VS.NET as some kind of project
> > and
> > run it(debug)?
> > OR
> > Run the debug application from the command line using Framework SDK tools?
> >
> > Cheers
> > --
> > David Jones
> > Senior Lecturer
> > School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
> > RMIT University
> > +61 3 99255318
>
>

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