Re: VS2005 Beta 2 w/ CE 5.0?

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I played around with Beta 1.
There were significant connectivity problems when trying to connect to
custom CE 5 device. The feedback was that they were woking on this for RTM 1
, not Beta 2.

VS.NET 2005 has a neat feature for debugging smart device apps:
You can run them directly on the desktop with debugging.
This is for apps that don't use CF specific features, given that the rest of
CF is a subset of the full framework.

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"Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" wrote:

> Be careful with terminology there. It's not "The CE 5.0 SDK", implying that
> it applies to any and all 5.0-based devices (which is completely false).
> It's the Windows CE 5.0 Standard Software Development Kit. I admit that the
> distinction isn't obvious, but the Standard SDK is a set of APIs and
> capabilities that device manufacturers can *choose* to support *or not*.
> There's no requirement there and, despite looking just like a device that
> does support the Standard SDK, another device might not. Certainly, a
> device with no display doesn't support it.
>
> Paul T.
>
> "Steven Kowal" <KickABit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1116362728.753288.165250@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I've been using Whidbey Beta 2 with CE 5.0. First, "smart device"
> > refers to any WinCE 5.0 based device. So if you have any CE 5.0
> > platform SDKs installed you'll be able to choose those platforms when
> > creating your projects.
> >
> > Since you are only seeing PPC and Smartphone you probably don't have
> > any 5.0 SDKs installed. The CE 5.0 SDK is available for download on
> > msdn.
> > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fa1a3d66-3f61-4ddc-9510-ae450e2318c3&DisplayLang=en
> > You don't need to install PB5.0 either.
> >
> > If you need to use the x86 emulator, you won't have many options in
> > Whidbey. I've been told the old x86 emulator will not be supported.
> > At MEDC last week I was able to talk to one a developer about this
> > issue. He said they may create a new x86 emulator at some point in the
> > future, but ARM is a higher priority since that's the CPU used by most
> > of the devices.
> >
> > That being said there is no reason why you couldn't use the old x86
> > emulator with Whidbey since it's just an emulator. Just follow the
> > directions given on the Visual Studio for Devices blog about debugging
> > without ActiveSync.
> > http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdteam/archive/2005/04/28/413304.aspx
> >
> > I've done this myself and it works pretty well.
> >
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