September 2011
Intermediate to advanced
744 pages
19h 4m
English
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MANAGED CODE APPLICATIONS AND WINDOWS EMBEDDED COMPACT 7
A managed code application for a Windows Embedded Compact 7 system requires the .NET Compact Framework. The framework version 3.5 is available as a Catalog component. There is the standard version of this in the Catalog as well as a headless version. Managed code needs to be written in C# or VB. The Compact Framework does not support managed C++. When a managed code application is compiled, a Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) file is created, not a binary executable or DLL. This code is CPU-independent. That is why a Compact Framework project can run on a variety of Compact 7/CE platforms and CPUs without rebuilding. The OS just needs the required version of the framework.
To create a managed code project in Visual Studio, you choose a Smart Device project, Windows CE Target Platform, and .NET CF Version 3.5 (can be version 2.0 as well), and then choose a template.
To develop the application you need two instances of Visual Studio: One for the OS and one for the managed code. The OS needs the Corecon component for Compact 7 (http://corecon4ce.codeplex.com). You then run the OS, run the two Corecon components (ConmanClient2 followed by CMAccept) on the target, build the application on the second instance, configure Options/DeviceTools/Devices for Platform Builder, connect to the device from this instance, deploy the application, test it. . .
It should be simpler than that and it can be!
Besides this “traditional” manner ...
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