ANN: .NET Compact Framework SP2

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Neil Cowburn [MVP]

You can now download the .NET Compact Framework SP2 from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...43-09b3-46d8-ba28-bc494bc20d26&displaylang=en.
Below are the release notes:
Additional Information
..NET Compact Framework 1.0 Service Pack 2 details:

Performance & Other Improvements List:
- Improved performance of many data tasks, including populating DataSets,
searching DataTables, DataSet.ReadXml() method when a schema is used,
finding and indexing operations, setting DataSet.EnableConstraints property,
SqlDataReader
- Improved resource loading performance
- Minor GUI performance improvements
- Extend keyboard events to be enabled on all controls (Control.KeyUp,
KeyDown, KeyPress)
- Added support for ForeColor &/or BackColor for Button, Checkbox, ComboBox,
DomainUpDown, Label, Listbox, ListView, NumericUpDown, RadioButton,
Trackbar, TreeView
- Added support for new Smartphone languages: Finnish, Czech, Romanian,
Slovakian, Norwegian, Hungarian, Polish, Turkish, Russian
- Improved Control.Enabled and Control.Parent property changing performance
- Support menu hotkeys on Pocket PC
- Support raising context menus from assigned hardware key, Pocket PC
- Tab support for Pocket PC based on Z-Order
- XmlTextReader performance improvements

Defect Fix List:
- DataRowCollection.Find() method throws wrong exception
- Fixed erroneous parsing of HttpWebRequest response stream
- Form does not get the focus when all controls are removed from the form
- Handling of empty XML elements and 'nil' attribute fixed for
DataSet.ReadXml()
- InputPanel Button disappears from MainMenu on Pocket PC 2002
- InputPanel's EnabledChanged Event fires inspite of setting the enabled
property to the same value.
- IrDAClient.DiscoverDevices device names garbled
- Memory leak in the NumericUpDown, DomainUpDown, ComboBox and TextBox
controls
- Native Exception occurs when using the get accessor for Control.Capture
- Navigation bar flickers when new form is being loaded.
- ObjectDisposedException occurs when DataBinding a control to a form shown
via Show()
- OK button eventually goes away when re-using recycled form for
ShowDialog()
- Setting the InputPanel.Enabled property when the form is closing throws an
exception
- SIP button does not go away when the toolbar control is removed from a
form that does not have a menu
- The Focus method does not work correctly for the NumericUpDown and
DomainUpDown controls
- The Text property of a ListView column is reset to "" when removing the
column from the ListView and then adding it back.
- ContextMenu: Fixed TreeView issues on Pocket PC 2003
- ContextMenu: Fixed side effects on controls like Scrollbar and Label
- ContextMenu: erroneous functionality when bound to ListBox
- ContextMenu: Showing a context menu on Pocket PC for a textbox unselects
the selected text in the textbox
- ContextMenu: Empty ContextMenu on Pocket PC should not pop up
- Web services: After repeatedly canceling asynchronous web request, all web
service calls fail conversion of 0.0F to a string and results in a memory
leak
- Web services: An XmlException is thrown when deserializing a qualified
name that has no prefix and there is no default namespace defined
- Web services: Incorrect handling of null headers in SOAP messages

Release Notes:
SP2 provides fixes for the aforementioned defects. This service pack does
not introduce any API changes.
 
Great, nice lot of fixes, just got to download a 12 meg file on a 56K dialup
connection!

Chris.
 
Can I use this SP2 for deploying my .NET CF application on to a pocket
device or would there be another application deployed redistributable?

This is intended purely for developers, and not for distribution along with
the application, right?

Regards,
Asheesh
 
Actually both - the developer package is so called because it contains
versions for all devices and emulators. For a pocket PC device you can
distribute the appropriate cab version with your applications e.g.
netcf.core.ppc3.ARM.cab

Peter

--
Peter Foot
Windows Embedded MVP

www.inthehand.com | www.opennetcf.org
 
Thanks a lot Peter. But this SP2.0 would definitely have a change in it
Win32 version number. I know it should be, just trying to reconfirm.

Regards,
Asheesh
Peter Foot said:
Actually both - the developer package is so called because it contains
versions for all devices and emulators. For a pocket PC device you can
distribute the appropriate cab version with your applications e.g.
netcf.core.ppc3.ARM.cab

Peter

--
Peter Foot
Windows Embedded MVP

www.inthehand.com | www.opennetcf.org

Asheesh said:
Can I use this SP2 for deploying my .NET CF application on to a pocket
device or would there be another application deployed redistributable?

This is intended purely for developers, and not for distribution along with
the application, right?

Regards,
Asheesh
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a removing
the
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Hi All,

Applying SP2 will cover all the fix and improvement of SP1 also?

Regards,

Alex
 
Just wanna make sure:

SP1 is included in VS .NET 2003 right? If not, will all fixes be added that
was in SP1 with the new SP2?

br,

Peter
 
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You can now download the .NET Compact Framework SP2 from
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Am I correct if I say this update does nothing on the PC
side of things? i.e. VS.Net 2003 knows nothing about the
new properties, for example?
 
You are correct.

-Chris

Michel Renaud said:
Am I correct if I say this update does nothing on the PC
side of things? i.e. VS.Net 2003 knows nothing about the
new properties, for example?
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I recently recieved a ViewSonic V37 PPC. This comes with the CF preinstalled
on it in ROM. I'm sure it doesn't have any SP's installed. I'm wondering, if
I now install a SP on top of this, will it end up taking up a lot more free
space than PPC's that don't have the CF in ROM since the ROM files can't be
deleted/overwritten? I thought it would be an asset to have the CF in ROM
but I'm wondering if it would have been better (space wise) to have had that
memory free and let me install the CF myself.

- Mark
 
Hello Neil,

Thank you very much, but how do you actually get the link at all, as I can't
find it in the places I would perceive as good candidates to look.


Best regards,

Henrik Dahl
 
There's a ton of questions/comments here, I'll try to hit them all.

1. The download is 12 MB because it contains .cabs for all supported PPC/CE
platforms. The individual .cabs for a given platform are still ~2 MB.
2. You can provide the End-User Redist to your customers along with your
application, to help them update their devices. What you're not supposed
to do is break it open and send the contents of the Redist to your
customers, HOWEVER, you can break open the Developer Redist and send the
contents of that to your customers. The .cab files contained in both
redists are the same, so download both, and you should be covered.
(Confused yet?)
3. Versions: V1 RTM==1.0.2268.0, V1 SP1==1.0.3111.0, V1 SP2==1.0.3226.0.
4. All fixes contained in SP1 are also in SP2.
5. VS .NET 2003 contains NETCF V1 (1.0.2268.0). There is no installer
available which will update Visual Studio to use the CF SP2 at the present
time.
6. There are no new properties/methods/types, etc. in SP2 that were not
present in SP1. There are some properties that now work or work better
than they did previously (ForeColor/BackColor for example), but you do not
need to link against the newer libraries for your app to make use of these
'more functional' items. You do need to have the newer CF on the target
device, however setting them won't hurt your programs running on older
versions of CF. Also, VS Designer does not know anything about the changes.
7. Tab order: there are a couple things you can do to control tab order in
a form. One is to edit the code manually and change the order that
controls are added, which should set your tab order. Another is to
download the SmartPhone SDK which gives you a tab-order control in the
designer which works for more than just SmartPhone.
8. Having CF is ROM (or not) does not affect the amount of RAM used when
installing CF on a device via .cab file. However, if the files in the .cab
file happen to be the same version as what is in ROM, then the installer
defers to the ROM version, saving a little space. This is not the case for
SP2, as all files have been updated.


Stan Adermann
Microsoft
.NET Compact Framework

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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| From: "Neil Cowburn [MVP]" <[email protected]>
| Subject: ANN: .NET Compact Framework SP2
| Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 02:20:38 +0100
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| You can now download the .NET Compact Framework SP2 from
|
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10600643-09b3-46d8-
ba28-bc494bc20d26&displaylang=en.
| Below are the release notes:
| Additional Information
| .NET Compact Framework 1.0 Service Pack 2 details:
|
| Performance & Other Improvements List:
| - Improved performance of many data tasks, including populating DataSets,
| searching DataTables, DataSet.ReadXml() method when a schema is used,
| finding and indexing operations, setting DataSet.EnableConstraints
property,
| SqlDataReader
| - Improved resource loading performance
| - Minor GUI performance improvements
| - Extend keyboard events to be enabled on all controls (Control.KeyUp,
| KeyDown, KeyPress)
| - Added support for ForeColor &/or BackColor for Button, Checkbox,
ComboBox,
| DomainUpDown, Label, Listbox, ListView, NumericUpDown, RadioButton,
| Trackbar, TreeView
| - Added support for new Smartphone languages: Finnish, Czech, Romanian,
| Slovakian, Norwegian, Hungarian, Polish, Turkish, Russian
| - Improved Control.Enabled and Control.Parent property changing
performance
| - Support menu hotkeys on Pocket PC
| - Support raising context menus from assigned hardware key, Pocket PC
| - Tab support for Pocket PC based on Z-Order
| - XmlTextReader performance improvements
|
| Defect Fix List:
| - DataRowCollection.Find() method throws wrong exception
| - Fixed erroneous parsing of HttpWebRequest response stream
| - Form does not get the focus when all controls are removed from the form
| - Handling of empty XML elements and 'nil' attribute fixed for
| DataSet.ReadXml()
| - InputPanel Button disappears from MainMenu on Pocket PC 2002
| - InputPanel's EnabledChanged Event fires inspite of setting the enabled
| property to the same value.
| - IrDAClient.DiscoverDevices device names garbled
| - Memory leak in the NumericUpDown, DomainUpDown, ComboBox and TextBox
| controls
| - Native Exception occurs when using the get accessor for Control.Capture
| - Navigation bar flickers when new form is being loaded.
| - ObjectDisposedException occurs when DataBinding a control to a form
shown
| via Show()
| - OK button eventually goes away when re-using recycled form for
| ShowDialog()
| - Setting the InputPanel.Enabled property when the form is closing throws
an
| exception
| - SIP button does not go away when the toolbar control is removed from a
| form that does not have a menu
| - The Focus method does not work correctly for the NumericUpDown and
| DomainUpDown controls
| - The Text property of a ListView column is reset to "" when removing the
| column from the ListView and then adding it back.
| - ContextMenu: Fixed TreeView issues on Pocket PC 2003
| - ContextMenu: Fixed side effects on controls like Scrollbar and Label
| - ContextMenu: erroneous functionality when bound to ListBox
| - ContextMenu: Showing a context menu on Pocket PC for a textbox unselects
| the selected text in the textbox
| - ContextMenu: Empty ContextMenu on Pocket PC should not pop up
| - Web services: After repeatedly canceling asynchronous web request, all
web
| service calls fail conversion of 0.0F to a string and results in a memory
| leak
| - Web services: An XmlException is thrown when deserializing a qualified
| name that has no prefix and there is no default namespace defined
| - Web services: Incorrect handling of null headers in SOAP messages
|
| Release Notes:
| SP2 provides fixes for the aforementioned defects. This service pack does
| not introduce any API changes.
|
|
|
 
"Stan Adermann [Msft]" said:
There's a ton of questions/comments here, I'll try to hit them all.
snip . . .
Click to expand...
2. You can provide the End-User Redist to your customers along with your
application, to help them update their devices. What you're not supposed
to do is break it open and send the contents of the Redist to your
customers, HOWEVER, you can break open the Developer Redist and send the
contents of that to your customers. The .cab files contained in both
redists are the same, so download both, and you should be covered.
(Confused yet?)
Click to expand...

Yes!!

Where does one get the End-User Redist version of SP2? All I see at the
link given is the Developer Redist.
 
So let me get this straight, on a Dell Axim i want to deploy the
netcf.all.wce4.ARMV4.cab file? Whats the difference between the netcf.core
files and the .netcf.all files?

Thanks,
Joe
 
Stan,

Thanks for the explanation. But!!!

I copied the appropriate cab to my device, but still get 1.0.3111.0 in my
about window from
"Version : " + System.Environment.OSVersion.Version.ToString();

When I tapped on the cab it asked if I wanted to overwrite CF and I said
yes.

Shouldn't I now get 1.0.3226.0 as per your explanation?

Have I done this the correct way?

I'm also about to receive Window mobile 2003 hopefully next week. What are
the correct steps to take after 2003 is installed?

Graham



"Stan Adermann [Msft]" said:
There's a ton of questions/comments here, I'll try to hit them all.

1. The download is 12 MB because it contains .cabs for all supported PPC/CE
platforms. The individual .cabs for a given platform are still ~2 MB.
2. You can provide the End-User Redist to your customers along with your
application, to help them update their devices. What you're not supposed
to do is break it open and send the contents of the Redist to your
customers, HOWEVER, you can break open the Developer Redist and send the
contents of that to your customers. The .cab files contained in both
redists are the same, so download both, and you should be covered.
(Confused yet?)
3. Versions: V1 RTM==1.0.2268.0, V1 SP1==1.0.3111.0, V1 SP2==1.0.3226.0.
4. All fixes contained in SP1 are also in SP2.
5. VS .NET 2003 contains NETCF V1 (1.0.2268.0). There is no installer
available which will update Visual Studio to use the CF SP2 at the present
time.
6. There are no new properties/methods/types, etc. in SP2 that were not
present in SP1. There are some properties that now work or work better
than they did previously (ForeColor/BackColor for example), but you do not
need to link against the newer libraries for your app to make use of these
'more functional' items. You do need to have the newer CF on the target
device, however setting them won't hurt your programs running on older
versions of CF. Also, VS Designer does not know anything about the changes.
7. Tab order: there are a couple things you can do to control tab order in
a form. One is to edit the code manually and change the order that
controls are added, which should set your tab order. Another is to
download the SmartPhone SDK which gives you a tab-order control in the
designer which works for more than just SmartPhone.
8. Having CF is ROM (or not) does not affect the amount of RAM used when
installing CF on a device via .cab file. However, if the files in the ..cab
file happen to be the same version as what is in ROM, then the installer
defers to the ROM version, saving a little space. This is not the case for
SP2, as all files have been updated.


Stan Adermann
Microsoft
NET Compact Framework

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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| Subject: ANN: .NET Compact Framework SP2
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| You can now download the .NET Compact Framework SP2 from
|
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10600643-09b3-46d8-
ba28-bc494bc20d26&displaylang=en.
| Below are the release notes:
| Additional Information
| .NET Compact Framework 1.0 Service Pack 2 details:
|
| Performance & Other Improvements List:
| - Improved performance of many data tasks, including populating DataSets,
| searching DataTables, DataSet.ReadXml() method when a schema is used,
| finding and indexing operations, setting DataSet.EnableConstraints
property,
| SqlDataReader
| - Improved resource loading performance
| - Minor GUI performance improvements
| - Extend keyboard events to be enabled on all controls (Control.KeyUp,
| KeyDown, KeyPress)
| - Added support for ForeColor &/or BackColor for Button, Checkbox,
ComboBox,
| DomainUpDown, Label, Listbox, ListView, NumericUpDown, RadioButton,
| Trackbar, TreeView
| - Added support for new Smartphone languages: Finnish, Czech, Romanian,
| Slovakian, Norwegian, Hungarian, Polish, Turkish, Russian
| - Improved Control.Enabled and Control.Parent property changing
performance
| - Support menu hotkeys on Pocket PC
| - Support raising context menus from assigned hardware key, Pocket PC
| - Tab support for Pocket PC based on Z-Order
| - XmlTextReader performance improvements
|
| Defect Fix List:
| - DataRowCollection.Find() method throws wrong exception
| - Fixed erroneous parsing of HttpWebRequest response stream
| - Form does not get the focus when all controls are removed from the form
| - Handling of empty XML elements and 'nil' attribute fixed for
| DataSet.ReadXml()
| - InputPanel Button disappears from MainMenu on Pocket PC 2002
| - InputPanel's EnabledChanged Event fires inspite of setting the enabled
| property to the same value.
| - IrDAClient.DiscoverDevices device names garbled
| - Memory leak in the NumericUpDown, DomainUpDown, ComboBox and TextBox
| controls
| - Native Exception occurs when using the get accessor for Control.Capture
| - Navigation bar flickers when new form is being loaded.
| - ObjectDisposedException occurs when DataBinding a control to a form
shown
| via Show()
| - OK button eventually goes away when re-using recycled form for
| ShowDialog()
| - Setting the InputPanel.Enabled property when the form is closing throws
an
| exception
| - SIP button does not go away when the toolbar control is removed from a
| form that does not have a menu
| - The Focus method does not work correctly for the NumericUpDown and
| DomainUpDown controls
| - The Text property of a ListView column is reset to "" when removing the
| column from the ListView and then adding it back.
| - ContextMenu: Fixed TreeView issues on Pocket PC 2003
| - ContextMenu: Fixed side effects on controls like Scrollbar and Label
| - ContextMenu: erroneous functionality when bound to ListBox
| - ContextMenu: Showing a context menu on Pocket PC for a textbox unselects
| the selected text in the textbox
| - ContextMenu: Empty ContextMenu on Pocket PC should not pop up
| - Web services: After repeatedly canceling asynchronous web request, all
web
| service calls fail conversion of 0.0F to a string and results in a memory
| leak
| - Web services: An XmlException is thrown when deserializing a qualified
| name that has no prefix and there is no default namespace defined
| - Web services: Incorrect handling of null headers in SOAP messages
|
| Release Notes:
| SP2 provides fixes for the aforementioned defects. This service pack does
| not introduce any API changes.
|
|
|
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Hi,
Can this be installed on a Casio IT500 (CE.net 4.1 device)? I've tried with
SP1 and it didn't work...

Regards,
Alberto Silva
 
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