Which versions of Visual xx allow CE development

Hi all,

I'm trying to do some development on one of the Audiovox Thera with
PPC2002 on it. I downloaded the SDK for the sierra wireless device
built-in to this unit and it references that the examples were built
with VB 6.0. Does VB6 allow CE development? I was under the
impression that you had to purchase the full blown Visual Studio
Enterprise to get CE application development.

So with that, I lead to the second question of does anyone know if the
eVB development environment might work with the sierra stuff.

I tried installing the eVB stuff on my HP zd7500 notebook (Media Center
Edition) and it simply bombed out when I hit the test in the Emulator
option and rebooted the system. I'm going to try the DEP option to see
if I can run it after changing that.

Any other suggestions or information would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Ken

Ginny
Wed Oct 20 21:10:28 CDT 2004

Ken,

You can develop for PPC 2002 devices with Visual Studio 2003 Pro or above
using VB.Net or C#. You should also be able to use eVB for PPC 2002 devices,
although eVB is no longer being enhanced and won't work with future Windows
Mobile devices.

--
Ginny Caughey
.Net Compact Framework MVP



"Ken Knight" <kenknight@helpconsulting.net> wrote in message
news:2004102021451816807%kenknight@helpconsultingnet...
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to do some development on one of the Audiovox Thera with
> PPC2002 on it. I downloaded the SDK for the sierra wireless device
> built-in to this unit and it references that the examples were built with
> VB 6.0. Does VB6 allow CE development? I was under the impression that
> you had to purchase the full blown Visual Studio Enterprise to get CE
> application development.
>
> So with that, I lead to the second question of does anyone know if the eVB
> development environment might work with the sierra stuff.
>
> I tried installing the eVB stuff on my HP zd7500 notebook (Media Center
> Edition) and it simply bombed out when I hit the test in the Emulator
> option and rebooted the system. I'm going to try the DEP option to see if
> I can run it after changing that.
>
> Any other suggestions or information would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Ken
>
>

r_z_aret
Thu Oct 21 11:18:48 CDT 2004

Ginny Caughey answered most of your questions. I'll add a little
(below).

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:45:18 -0400, Ken Knight
<kenknight@helpconsulting.net> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I'm trying to do some development on one of the Audiovox Thera with
>PPC2002 on it. I downloaded the SDK for the sierra wireless device
>built-in to this unit and it references that the examples were built
>with VB 6.0. Does VB6 allow CE development? I was under the
>impression that you had to purchase the full blown Visual Studio
>Enterprise to get CE application development.

Microsoft used to sell a toolkit that would let VB 6 (or VC 6) build
for CE. I haven't seen anyone distributing it for several years.

>
>So with that, I lead to the second question of does anyone know if the
>eVB development environment might work with the sierra stuff.

The SDKs that worked with the VB 6/VC 6 toolkit _do_ work with eVC 3
(I use them almost daily). I don't use VB or eVB, but I'm pretty
confident the SDK you downloaded will work with eVB, and suspect you
won't be able to use the samples directly.

>
>I tried installing the eVB stuff on my HP zd7500 notebook (Media Center
>Edition) and it simply bombed out when I hit the test in the Emulator
>option and rebooted the system. I'm going to try the DEP option to see
>if I can run it after changing that.

Given that the emulators are installed, I gather your notebook is not
running Windows 9x. But just in case you are and the installer goofed,
you need to know that the emulators don't run under Windows 9x.

>
>Any other suggestions or information would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>Ken
>

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Ken
Thu Oct 21 12:15:19 CDT 2004

thanks a bunch for the replies. Yes this unit is running the Media Center
Edition of XP. I'll see what I can make happen. Still rebooting like crazy
and I've tried just about everything I can find a discussion about on the
Internet regarding this issue.

Thanks,
Ken




<r_z_aret@pen_fact.com> wrote in message
news:cglfn0paom940b98l38ukcho4il01gvjpp@4ax.com...
> Ginny Caughey answered most of your questions. I'll add a little
> (below).
>
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:45:18 -0400, Ken Knight
> <kenknight@helpconsulting.net> wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I'm trying to do some development on one of the Audiovox Thera with
>>PPC2002 on it. I downloaded the SDK for the sierra wireless device
>>built-in to this unit and it references that the examples were built
>>with VB 6.0. Does VB6 allow CE development? I was under the
>>impression that you had to purchase the full blown Visual Studio
>>Enterprise to get CE application development.
>
> Microsoft used to sell a toolkit that would let VB 6 (or VC 6) build
> for CE. I haven't seen anyone distributing it for several years.
>
>>
>>So with that, I lead to the second question of does anyone know if the
>>eVB development environment might work with the sierra stuff.
>
> The SDKs that worked with the VB 6/VC 6 toolkit _do_ work with eVC 3
> (I use them almost daily). I don't use VB or eVB, but I'm pretty
> confident the SDK you downloaded will work with eVB, and suspect you
> won't be able to use the samples directly.
>
>>
>>I tried installing the eVB stuff on my HP zd7500 notebook (Media Center
>>Edition) and it simply bombed out when I hit the test in the Emulator
>>option and rebooted the system. I'm going to try the DEP option to see
>>if I can run it after changing that.
>
> Given that the emulators are installed, I gather your notebook is not
> running Windows 9x. But just in case you are and the installer goofed,
> you need to know that the emulators don't run under Windows 9x.
>
>>
>>Any other suggestions or information would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Ken
>>
>
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