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

From: Daniel Moth (dmoth74_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/27/05


Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:42:56 -0000

FYI, since you are willing to go down the CF 2.0 route, you'll find that
VS2005 Beta 1 (or November CTP) emulators run in VPC (haven't tried with
VMWare).

Cheers
Daniel

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"David Jones" <davejones@rmit.edu.au.nospamplease> wrote in message 
news:B30D0FE6-3842-423C-A72B-82636007BFCA@microsoft.com...
> 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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