MS CE Comm Control for Pocket PC 2002 in .NET

[Craig C.]

Is it just me, or is there no MS CE COMM Control for the .NET Compact
Framework??

I have VS Studio .NET 2003 and am trying to re-create an older eVB project I
have from scratch. This eVB project uses the MS CE COMM 3.0 Control. I
can't find the equivalent control for .NET in the list of available
controls. It's like it does not exist. I tried adding the MS CE COMM 3.0
Control to the toolbox but it is disabled.

All the documentation I have read says that you can program for the Pocket
PC 2002 platform using .NET. Is that true except for applications using
serial communication?


Craig C.

 

[Tim Wilson]

You will need to use a third party library for serial communications when
programming against the current version of the CF. There should be enough in
the SDF to get you going
(http://www.opennetcf.org/PermaLink.aspx?guid=3a013afd-791e-45ef-802a-4c1dbe
1cfef9)... and a sample here
(http://www.opennetcf.org/PermaLink.aspx?guid=0e593c58-7305-46d1-b8f8-955915
2d5e1e).

I tried adding the MS CE COMM 3.0
Control to the toolbox but it is disabled.

The CF currently does not support COM interop. So you will not be able to
use the components that you have used in the past from eVB without third
party support like this http://www.odysseysoftware.com/cfcom_main.html.

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

Any Google search for .net cf serial libs would have turned up the MSDN
article on it. The most recent source is available here:

www.opennetcf.org/sdf

the docs are here:
www.opennetcf.org/library

-Chris