WM2003 SE VGA Emulation with .NET?

[Guest]

I have been using the emulator included with VS 2005 Beta 1 but have run into a snag I'm hoping someone can help me out with.

I have been experimenting with VGA resolution versions of my programs but I cannot get them to run in VGA mode in the emulator. The emulator is running in VGA mode (quadruple the size, wallpaper is tiled, sharper fonts, etc.) but when I run my application it apparently goes through the emulation layer to perform pixel doubling. The net effect is my VGA-sized dialog is clipped to QVGA size.

I have read the "Developing DPI-Aware Applications" and it states:

"...applications with a subsystem version of 4.20 or lower are considered legacy applications and will go through the emulation layer. The HI_RES_AWARE resource item can be used to override this behavior for legacy applications."

I am confused on how to accomplish this with a .NET application. Isn't WM2003 SE still 4.20? Also, how does one go about setting the HI_RES_AWARE flag? Or am I going about this in the wrong direction?

It would be great is someone could point it out. I hope it's not too obvious.
Thanks in advance!
-Jason

 

[Robert Levy [MS]]

Check out this whitepaper specific to .NET CF development:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...dnwm2k3/html/screen_orientation_awareness.asp

You'll need to use the res2exe utility in the Windows Mobile 2003 Second
Edition Developer Resource Kit to mark your exe resolution aware.

Note that for the final version of .NET CF v2, all exe's will be
automatically marked as resolution and orientation aware.