Mass App Download

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Harry Simpson

I'm writing a simple calc app and it will be downloaded from a website and
used on a pocket PC - maybe Windows 2003 or later.

If I write it in VS2003 I should be safe right. Won't the WM2005 + devices
run the WinPPC 2003 app just fine. Do i need to package the older CF incase
it's running on a new device or will the VS2003 app run fine even on the
WM2005+ device?

TIA
H
 
All Windows Mobile 2003 and later devices will have at least a version of
..NETCF v1.0 in ROM (not necessarily the latest service pack but your .NETCF
v1.0 app will run). Generally anything you have written for WM2003 will work
on WM5.0. The differences are in code security (on some devices you may need
to sign your code for WM5.0 though usually not necessary for Pocket PC type
devices), and if you have used any unsupported APIs which have since been
deprecated (some of the system databases are now using EDB rather than CEDB
for example). You'll also need to be aware of how your app will appear in
newer devices with different screen sizes - there is some automatic scaling
applied to legacy apps on VGA devices for example.

Peter
 
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