.NET Compact Framework on H/PC Pro

I can throw together a small .net cf app quickly that has no menus if you wish. do you want some hello world style app or something more complex?

btw, I don't remember if it was CE 1.0 or 2.0 too, but coredll did not export the basic C runtime functions like string handling functions.. apps had to have the runtime compiled in themselves. this might be why stuff won't run. but as I said, this might be an issue only with CE 1.0, I don't remember..

Edited by cmonex 2008-07-06 5:10 PM

Stefanov already compiled a "Hello World" applet for testing (though I noticed that it didn't have the Restore Down button on the title bar that is present in the CE 2.11 version), so it'd be nice to try something more complex. What if the app has on-screen buttons instead of menus?

Thanx for your help in any event.

Speaking of .NET. Recently I followed some instructions to open up a GPS device, it runs CE .NET 4.2. My two apps that I have posted free online run pretty fine on it after a few modifications to account for the 16bit depth that I had never tested.

However, debugging with log files kind of sucked. cmonex, do you know how to attach a debugger to a CE .NET 4.2 device?

I used eVC 3.0 to build the apps, with forward compatibility in mind, so they worked well. But to try and debug I finally downloaded eVC 4.0 and I got some generic SDK for emulation. With the eVC 3.0 and the VC++ 6.0 Toolkit for WinCE I was able to attach to devices very well.

I did some websearches and did not get any good leads. The closest thing I saw was for requesting device manufacturor to use Platform Builder to publish and SDK. Since this device was never meant to be opened, I doubt that is feasible. I guess I wonder in addition to how to debug on target also if there is some generic on-target mips/arm/etc. SDK anyone has published in the corners of the Internet that can generically attach to a device for on-target debug sessions with eVC and through ActiveSync?

No dice so far on CE 2.01. The CAB file won't execute even though the same one installs fine on a CE 2.0 H/PC.

and does that run on ce 2.0?


smb_gaiden: EVC4 has a debugger, does that not work? then, I think even VS2005 allows you to use a 4.2 SDK so debugging should work too. there is also several ce.net 4.2 SDK's downloadable from this site, from developer downloads. you do not need platform builder. so I'm not sure what your issue is. you first say you need a debugger then you write that you found it.
if you like assembly ida pro also works.
btw, no, there is no ondevice debugger.
also I noticed you don't program in .net, so why post in a .net thread? please go post in the developer section: http://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/forum-view.asp?fid=44

Edited by cmonex 2008-07-07 11:06 AM

Yeah, "Hello World" works fine. There's an on-screen button to close, which works fine, and two buttons on the title bar - minimize (_) and close (X), which also work fine. (As I mentioned above, the Restore Down button is absent; I'm assuming that CE 2.0 doesn't support resizing the window.)

Well, Stefanov put together a .NET CF CAB for CE 2.01 for me to test, which installed successfully - and it's just like I suspected: several apps are working in CE 2.01 even though none have thus far in CE 2.00. It just appears to be down to menu bar support (or lack thereof) in CE 2.00, as Stefanov says.

We've finally broken the CE 2.00 barrier! Several .NET CF apps working on my Mobilon already. See the link in the first post in this thread for details.

Only problem I'm running into is the age-old problem of running 240x320 apps on the 640x240 screen - the bottom is cut off, rendering several of the apps unusable on my Phenom Express and Mobilon. (Oh, if we could just port WinWatch to H/PC Pro SH3 and to CE 2.0. )

I'm bumping this thread with a screenshot from my Sharp Mobilon HC-4600. (Sorry, I could only get a black-and-white version - for some reason I kept getting a black screen as a screenshot when I used ScreenSnap. )





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did you make the RC program?

No - that's Valentin Iliescu's program, written for ARM Pocket PCs:

http://www.valil.com/netcf/index.html

See also my first post in this thread.

Wow!

Does this mean that Most Pocket PC applications (CE 3.0, 4.2 or 4.x.net) can work on CE 2.0, CE 2.01 and CE 2.11 devices? I'm gonna try this! (Watch this space ...)

Also, if TCMCP is gonna work on a CE 2.0 device you'd need to install the package that was meant to work on a Pocket PC, and then transfer it to the device. Am I correct?


Edited by Paspie 2009-01-09 8:56 AM

No, this means that some .net languages applications may run on it - i.e. bytecode framework apps. It changes nothing for C++ executables like TCPMP.