Building apps for WM3 and WM5

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Jason James

Guys, I have a mixture of devices running WM3 and WM5 and would like
to develop the same source code for both platforms. I am using VS2005
and C# along with SQL CE 3.1. Does anyone have any information that
might help me in my quest to not have to maintain two lots of source
code?

Many thanks,

Jason
 
Just some additional information to my original post. I have tried to
create PPC 2003 (WM3) apps within VS2005 SP1 and I have chosen the
project that utilises CF2 (not CF1) and I only appear to get deplyment
options for PPC2003 devices or emulators not WM5. If I create a WM5
app utilising CF2 I can only see WM5 devices and emulators. I do not
appear to create a new project that has access to both PPC 2003 (WM3)
and WM5.

However, I have an app I developed some time ago (On CF1 if I recall
correctly) and that has both PPC 2003 and WM5 options available in the
device drop-down within the VS IDE.

Any help much appreciated.

Regards,

Jason.
 
Hi,

I do something similar to you in that I have one project solution, but want
my app to be able to run on PPC 2003, Mobile 5 and 6. I maintain one PPC2003
Project CF2, and create seperate installers for PPC2003, Mobile 5 and 6. The
PPC2003 app will run on Mobile 5 and 6. The only drag is there is slightly
less functionality in PPC2003 SDK, and lots of nice bits in Mob 5 and 6 SDK's
which I lose out on. But this is the only way to do it for now, until we can
forget about PPC2003 completely.

In my solution I can see emulators for PPC2003, Mobile 5 and 6. You might
have to configure the Device emulator manager in your solution to be able to
see them all?

Dav
 
Dav,

thanks for the prompt reply. Any pointers as to how this could/should
be done?

Jason.
 
Hi Jason,

I cant actually remember configuring anything, but maybe try -

Tools
Options
Device Tools
Devices

Show devices for platform : All platforms

Dav
 
Dav,

no luck. I see the options and can change things but nothing gets
changed at the main IDE screen.

Any other thoughts?

Jason.
 
Chris,

that's great. Many thanks for taking the time.

Any thoughts as to why I have one project that shows me all options,
i.e. PPC 2003, EM5, etc? I don't seem to be able to recreate it.

Jason.
 
Target Windows CE and IIRC they'll all show up. FYI, the resulting binary
doesn't change at all - just the emulator and the availability of the
WindowsMobile assembly for referencing.




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Chris Tacke, Embedded MVP
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Chris, once again many thanks. That's just what I was looking for. I
just didn't expect the project to have been targeted at CE so I didn't
try it.

Jason.
 
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