Documentation on dropped features in WinMo?

Hi,

I don't want to sound like whining, but a few days into the developement of
WinMo app, I find the most frustrating thing is the lack of documentation on
features that were supported in Win32 but dropped in WinMo. For example,
owner draw combo boxes and list boxes (hmmmm... not sure, but seems to be
so). I can't seem to find it but I believe there's got to be a document
telling me which features were dropped from Win32.

Can anyone help? Thanks.

ctacke/>
Tue Jun 19 22:10:08 CDT 2007

To be clear, CE (not Windows Mobile, as that's simply a Platform on top of
CE) is a subset of Win32, so there's really nothing "dropped". Secondly,
there is a significant amount of Win32 "missing" so just trying to document
it would be pretty untenable, and how you could possibly organize such a
monstronisty and still have it useful I'm not sure. Lastly, CE is modular,
so there's no way to even say what's in any specific build of CE short of
the SDK itself. Just because CE as an OS supports something doesn't mean
that any given platform does.

CE has clear documentation on what it does contain. Each Platform SDK has
headers and libs that are even more definitive for a given platform. Your
best tools are that documentation, along with experience. It's a flexible
OS, and in that ability you lose the "benefits" and clarity of a rigid OS.


--

Chris Tacke, Embedded MVP
OpenNETCF Consulting
Managed Code in an Embedded World
www.OpenNETCF.com


"WoodenMecca" <WoodenMecca@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BBBC826C-0C4A-4834-994D-DC9E640C819D@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I don't want to sound like whining, but a few days into the developement
> of
> WinMo app, I find the most frustrating thing is the lack of documentation
> on
> features that were supported in Win32 but dropped in WinMo. For example,
> owner draw combo boxes and list boxes (hmmmm... not sure, but seems to be
> so). I can't seem to find it but I believe there's got to be a document
> telling me which features were dropped from Win32.
>
> Can anyone help? Thanks.

WoodenMecca
Tue Jun 19 23:50:00 CDT 2007

So I guess the answer is no?

On a side note on the function ::MulDiv(). Try the following function call:

::MulDiv(8, 96, 72)

The return value of the above function on PC is 11; whereas in the PPC
emulator, the return values is 10. Surely there is no way for Microsoft or
anybody to document changes like these, but it sure took me several hours to
figure out why the font I created always looked weird.



"<ctacke/>" wrote:

> To be clear, CE (not Windows Mobile, as that's simply a Platform on top of
> CE) is a subset of Win32, so there's really nothing "dropped". Secondly,
> there is a significant amount of Win32 "missing" so just trying to document
> it would be pretty untenable, and how you could possibly organize such a
> monstronisty and still have it useful I'm not sure. Lastly, CE is modular,
> so there's no way to even say what's in any specific build of CE short of
> the SDK itself. Just because CE as an OS supports something doesn't mean
> that any given platform does.
>
> CE has clear documentation on what it does contain. Each Platform SDK has
> headers and libs that are even more definitive for a given platform. Your
> best tools are that documentation, along with experience. It's a flexible
> OS, and in that ability you lose the "benefits" and clarity of a rigid OS.
>
>
> --
>
> Chris Tacke, Embedded MVP
> OpenNETCF Consulting
> Managed Code in an Embedded World
> www.OpenNETCF.com
>
>
> "WoodenMecca" <WoodenMecca@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BBBC826C-0C4A-4834-994D-DC9E640C819D@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I don't want to sound like whining, but a few days into the developement
> > of
> > WinMo app, I find the most frustrating thing is the lack of documentation
> > on
> > features that were supported in Win32 but dropped in WinMo. For example,
> > owner draw combo boxes and list boxes (hmmmm... not sure, but seems to be
> > so). I can't seem to find it but I believe there's got to be a document
> > telling me which features were dropped from Win32.
> >
> > Can anyone help? Thanks.
>
>
>