Accessing source code

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Martin Robins

Microsoft very kindly provided the .net framework & compact framework v1 as
managed libraries that could be inspected using tools such as reflector if
you wanted to see what was going on under the hood; however due to the
change in how compact framework v2 libraries are constructed, the .dll files
loaded onto the developers PC contain only metadata.

has anybody an idea as to where I can get copies of the real run-time files
that can be inspected as I currently have an exception being thrown from
within the Control.Text "get" accessor (being called from within the
Control.Text "set" accessor) and would like to see what may be happening.
 
I should point out that I have tried looking for the files installed on the
device but there are only the pre-compiled GAC_* files that i can find.
 
If you have installed the .NET CF 2.0 SP1 patch, give a look in:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\CompactFramework\v2.0\Debugger\BCL
 
Those "pre-compiled files" are actually the real runtime files which have
been renamed by the GAC. Microsoft has not released the source code for the
..NET Compact Framework, so the CF assemblies and .NET Reflector is your best
hope.
 
Exactly what I was looking for; thanks.

Nino Benvenuti said:
If you have installed the .NET CF 2.0 SP1 patch, give a look in:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\CompactFramework\v2.0\Debugger\BCL
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