Sorry for the lack of clarity Peter.
I know that the MSDN site can be hard to navigate sometimes.

This page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/pro...s/default.aspx

....states that VB.NET 2003 includes support for building apps that target
the .NET Compact Framework:

responsive applications for the Pocket PC and other devices powered by the
..NET Compact Framework.

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some further comments:

The .NET Compact Framework is the version of the .NET Framework that runs on
mobile devices such as the Pocket PC (including iPaq). When you run Visual
Studio 2003 (or VB.NET 2003) on your PC, you can build apps that target the
device. VS.NET includes an emulator (actually, a virtual machine) so you
can test the apps that you've built, without having access to a device. For
those who actually have a device, you can deploy and debug on the device,
from within VS.NET.

It's really quite slick, and miles ahead of eVT, if you've ever tried the
prior generation of MS tools for devices.

There also used to be a thing called the Smart Device Extensions (SDE).
This was a "tech preview", not even a beta, of mobile device support that
you could add to VS.NET 2002. However, SDE is no longer available - it
evolved into the integrated device and .NET CF support that you have in the
Visual Studio and VB products for 2003.

-Dino



"Peter Royle" <pjroyle (AT) tiscali (DOT) co.uk> wrote