Anyone ever used AppForge Crossfire ? And other add-ons

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Hello,

I'm pretty sure a lot of people knows about AppForge MobileVB for VB6 but I
would like to know if anyone ever used their Crossfire product which is
pretty similar but integrates with VS.NET ? The support for most type of
devices is interesting but I'm not convinced so far.

And what is the most common add-on to the Compact Framework most programmers
are using ? So far it seems that OpenNetCF, so what are the real advantages
of it ?

Anyone ever used the http://www.componentone.com mobile controls ? They are
a bit expensives but they seems good. Anyone can tell me if it's worth to
download the evaluation versions and put some time in testing those ?

We're looking in something to have an overall better experience in
develloping .NET application for mobile dev.

Any advices appreciated! Thanks,
Sylvain Bujold
 
I have been a MobileVB user for several years. I have a couple of small
Palm applications I support, and programming them in VB6 was very
convenient.

Recently, my client wanted to update the apps so that they would be Palm OS,
cpu, and screen resolution agnostic. To do this I would have to upgrade to
CrossFire, since my copy of MobileVB would only produce apps that were
compatible with the old dragonball cpu, the low-res screen, and OS 4 and
older.

Well, they wanted me to pay a $900 upgrade fee for CrossFire, plus $25 per
PDA that my app ran on that was OS 5 and newer or a PocketPC. You can
imagine my reaction. My client gives these apps away free as promotional
items.

A couple of weeks ago, I found a product, NSBasic, that meets my needs
perfectly, and for only $150. Admittedly, it's not as powerful as CrossFire
(fewer, less powerful controls, more primitive IDE), but for my current
needs, it's a better fit than CrossFire.

If you aren't going to do any Palm development, then I would stick with .Net
and the Compact Framework. But if you need cross-platform capability
without having to pay runtime royalties then take a look at www.nsbasic.com
They have a PocketPC version, and even a Newton version. The syntax is
familiar and easily picked up, and they have plenty of example projects and
a healthy discussion group on Google.

Good Luck.
 
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