Cf 1.0 App on Mobile 5

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Nathan

I don't have any devices with Windows Mobile 5, and I don't think any of my
beta customers do.

Will a CF 1.0 app install and work fine on Windows Mobile 5.0? I do install
CF1SP3 and SQLCE2.0 with the app.

Are there any guides that can prepare me for the experience? Anyone who's
already done it?

Nathan
 
I haven't done it but, WM05 comes with v1.0 SP3 and you can use VS2005 to
target it.

Cheers
Daniel
 
Yes you definately can do it, and you won't need to deploy .NETCF SP3 since
this is built into the ROM in v5.0. An app written for PPC2003 will just
work with no changes so long as you don't call into any APIs specific to a
particular device. You can also make a few modifications to take advantage
of v5.0, such as rearranging your menus so that you have only two top level
items and it will automatically be drawn as softkey buttons.

Peter
 
Thanks. That's encouraging. I've doen my share of PInvokes through
OpenNetCF, including registry and HtmlViewer. As far as I know, nothing
specific to a device.

I've got four top level menus, but getting it down to two is tempting.

Are there any warning messages like there were with 2003SE?

Nathan
 
VS2005 isn't an option yet, but can you develop CF 1.0 apps with VS2005?
This is something I had not anticipated. I had expected to be forced to move
to 2.0 right away.

From what I've read, it sounds like you do have to have CF 2.0 to target SQL
Mobile 3. This would be an attractive feature, perhaps, because SQLCE2.0 is
not much fun.

But I've got customers with 2002 and 2003, so CF 2.0 isn't an option yet.

Nathan
 
VS 2005 does allow you to target WM 5.0 with CFv1.

Originally, VS 2005 was only going to allow CFv2 development but that plan
was changed based on feedback from the community :)
 
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