[RESOLVED] Dependency issue on iPAQ

[szlamany]

Ok - I got the most recent CE Framework 2.0 installed my iPAQ.

Now I'm trying to run a little VS2005 .EXE I made on my laptop - simple - only has a textbox - wanted to see how the screen looked!

I'm getting this error:

"File or assembly name 'Microsoft.VisualBasic, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken='......', or one of it's dependencies , was not found."

I thought the FRAMEWORK was all that was needed to be installed.

Did I not compile the .EXE properly on the laptop??

[szlamany]

Ok - I got past that - I realized I needed to create a new project and say it was CE 5.0 app...

So this is all new to me - you can't build the .exe - it deploys to the device.

Where does it deploy to on the iPAQ?

Does this mean you cannot run the app in the IDE and play with it - you must run it on the iPAQ? How does this all work?

[Strider]

you can deploy directly to the device or else use one of the emulators

if you look at the properties of the project you can select which folder on the device it will deploy to. generally its \Program Files\<Application Name>

You can run and debug the application from the IDE but the application must run on the emulator on a handheld device.

during the deploy it will copy all libraries required for the application to run on the device

[szlamany]

@strider - thanks for the clarification.

I just started realizing it was running on the iPAQ screen from the IDE - very neat.

Why would an emulator be any better than using the iPAQ itself?

Also - are all these screen sizes standard? Do I have to worry about different real estate on different devices that my users might have?

[Strider]

yes the device is the best option but the emulator works just as well for the case where you dont have a device.

generally in the newer devices you have the ability to change the sceen layout from landscape to portrait and back again. so you may need to handle this depending on what the end user will be doing.

its generally Windows CE devices that having varying screen sizes from 320*220 to 800*640