VB Application in pocket PC

[VB.NETNEWBIE]

Hi,

I have created a program in windows form, if I want to use the program in my pocket PC, what should I do?

Thanks,

NewBie

[ntg]

Hi,

You need to start a smart device application (assuming VS.Net 2003) and port your code in that project.

Cheers,
NTG

[VB.NETNEWBIE]

Hi,


I have application which is not in smart device application , when I attached the project into this smart drive application, it returns a lot of errors, example, some coding does not support in smart drive application, is it any solution that you could provide?

Thanks,
NewBie

[ntg]

That was to be expected. Simply creating a smart dev app and attaching your existing app won't cut it, you need to re-engineer your original app into a new smart dev app. It's only natural that parts of the original functionality isn't supported if you're coding for a Pocket PC - you simply have to re-engineer.

Cheers,
NTG

[Asgorath]

Hi

The Pocket PC applications are based on the .Net Compact Framework.

Regards
Jorge

[Shaggy Hiker]

Don't expect to be able to simply port programs into PocketPC or WindowsCE platforms, especially if the program has forms. The size of the screen alone pretty much insures that such a port would either look or feel like crap.

I've been doing a fair amount of this during the last summer. When I started out, I tried to make the PDA version look like the desktop version. That was a BAD idea. The screen is much smaller, the input is almost entirely click driven (and it should be!), and the aspect is greatly different. Also, the compact framework is just that: compact. There is much that has been removed (and a few things that look like they are still there, they just don't work).

Writing for the PDA is not like writing for a desktop, and you shouldn't think of it that way. Porting probably acts as a particularly misleading crutch. Write new!