Cannot install OpenNETCF with VS.NET 2005 Beta2

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Lonifasiko

I have installed VS.NET 2005 Beta2 in a virgin machine. I'm tyring to
install OpenNETCF v1.3 but when about to finish setup process I receive
an error of "Object reference not set to an instance of an object". I
know Smart Device Framework was developed for CF 1.0 but I need some
controls from this framework.

How could I install it without errors? Another possibility would be to
copy OpenNETCF's DLL to a specific directory?

I think it's because setup does not find a directiry or something where
it can place the DLLs. In another machine I had both VS.NET 2003 and
2005 and although I could not use the designer of VS 2005 version with
OpenNETCF's controls, I could add them to my forms programatically and
worked well.

Could anybodyy give me some ligth on this issue?

Thanks very much.
 
The design-time architecture for custom controls is completely
different moving from VS .NET 2003 to VS 2005. You can use the controls
from the SDF (I *highly* recommend using v1.4 and *not* v1.3) through
code, but not through the forms designer until we release the
appropiate design-time assemblies.

You can grab the 1.4 assemblies which are included in the installer as
a zip file from http://www.opennetcf.org/sdf/
 
Thanks Neil,

But where do I install OpenNETCF's DLLs? Anywhere in my hard drive and
then only reference them? I understand that these assemblies were
installed in a directory under "Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
..NET 2003\............" but I suppose for designer use purposes.

I'll try then. Thanks again.
 
That's right you can place the files anywhere, then when you select Add
Reference select Browse and locate your chosen folder.

Peter
 
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