What's happened to Embedded Visual Studio ?

[arunb]

Hi,

I had some years ago ordered for a free copy of embedded visual studio 2002,

I wanted to publish a few articles regarding Windows mobile development, now I find that there is no mention of eVS in microsoft's site.

Does this mean that eVS has become obsolete ?? how can one download a copy if required...??

thanks
ar

[techgnome]

Everything is rolled into Visual Studio .... the .NET Compact Framework (.NET CF) is available as part of the Professional edition of VS, which would need to be purchased.

-tg

[Shaggy Hiker]

I didn't even know there WAS an eVS, only an eVB, which was a pile of dung. The language was built on VBScript rather than true VB, which had several severe limitations. The .NET Compact Framework thoroughly replaced eVB with a true implementation of VB.NET, albeit a stripped down version of it. The reduced set of options in the CF were nowhere near a sufficient limitation to offset the many improvements that came standard, such as SQL Server CE for database work, and most of the features of the full desktop VB.

It is my understanding that newer OS's may not even run eVB apps, and good riddance, in my opinion.

[Max Peck]

It is my understanding that newer OS's may not even run eVB apps, and good riddance, in my opinion.

Yeah, eVB was a hack of the VB6 IDE but the fact that it produced only VBScript made it really tough to know if what you were coding was going to work. The IDE did not enforce the limitations of the VBScript, you had to find out at runtime that the function you called was not available in VBScript. Better than nothing, I guess, but barely.

OTOH, VS2005 works really well when writing for a device. I haven't written a ton of things for my PPC with it but in my tinkering with it I'm finding that everything seems to work. It deploys easily to the device and the program runs fine on it.

-Max

[arunb]

I have Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition, will this work ??

[Shaggy Hiker]

I don't think it has the support for Mobile programming. You can find out quickly be starting a new project. If you have an option for Smart Devices, then the answer is yes, if not, then no.

[arunb]

there is no option...

thanks anyway..

arunb

[dilettante]

There is also http://www.nsbasic.com/ce/

[Max Peck]

there is no option...

thanks anyway..

arunb

You might want to consider buying a copy of VS2008 Standard ... it's probably worth the bucks if you want to do some serious development on your device. A full version of the product is about $260 ($170 for an upgrade) at Programmer's Paradise.

-Max