So, is this available in VB Net 2005 Standard? aka temporarily Express beta?

VB is still the thing to do, but in order to get it done, one needs portable
deployment solutions. And yes getting embed for free and then having to pay
for a CF option is hard, but for someone whose been reading about all this
right along, one feels like it's expected that CF solutions should be part
of ANY Dot Net product. I'm still not over the disappointment of this NOT be
included in 2002 and now here I am looking at a 2003 version install and
it's still not included?

As a purchaser of VB 4,6, 7, 8 Can we not get a free CF upgrade VS studio
solution as a download for free? Or do we have to wait for VB 2005,
Standard, only to find out the only solution is to get the whole studio on
that one too?

Randy

P.S. I'd spend 50 bucks on CF VB only add on, but I don't think I should
have to.

"Chris Tacke, eMVP" <ctacke[at]OpenNETCF_dot_org> wrote

Hi,

There is always the free embedded visual tools 3.0. It doesnt
support the compact framework you need vs.net 2003 pro or greater for that.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f663bf48-31ee-4cbe-aac5-0affd5fb27dd&displaylang=en

Ken
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"Randy" <Randus (AT) email (DOT) com> wrote

So, is this available in VB Net 2005 Standard? aka temporarily Express beta?

VB is still the thing to do, but in order to get it done, one needs portable
deployment solutions. And yes getting embed for free and then having to pay
for a CF option is hard, but for someone whose been reading about all this
right along, one feels like it's expected that CF solutions should be part
of ANY Dot Net product. I'm still not over the disappointment of this NOT be
included in 2002 and now here I am looking at a 2003 version install and
it's still not included?

As a purchaser of VB 4,6, 7, 8 Can we not get a free CF upgrade VS studio
solution as a download for free? Or do we have to wait for VB 2005,
Standard, only to find out the only solution is to get the whole studio on
that one too?

Randy

P.S. I'd spend 50 bucks on CF VB only add on, but I don't think I should
have to.

"Chris Tacke, eMVP" <ctacke[at]OpenNETCF_dot_org> wrote

Ken,

Yup, I got that, but guess what VB Embed doesn't seem to really want to
work under the 2003 version of Windows for Pocket PC. And it's still wasting
space with all of it supporting files. As cool as it is, you still have to
manage a bit of C just to get an icon that goes with your program. It was
done. I think my point really was, that it was still left out of the
standard version of VB when everything I'd been reading seem to say you
could do it in Dot Net. Well, you can, just not VB Dot Net.

Anyway, add it to the wish list, because it doesn't appear to be part of the
Dot Net Express version of VB 9. *Wails and moans*

Cheers

Randy

"Ken Tucker [MVP]" <vb2ae (AT) bellsouth (DOT) net> wrote

"Randy" <Randus (AT) email (DOT) com> wrote

I may've missed a bunch of this thread... but have you tried this (below)?
I've done a couple of Pocket PC apps using it and, so far, no real problems.

OpenNETCF.org
http://www.opennetcf.org/CategoryView.aspx?category=Home

Hate to be a "stickler" but you owned VB4,5,6 and B#1,2 & ?? Despite the
marketting hype, there are no versions of Visual Basic newer than version 6.
B# is not VB

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Ken Halter - MS-MVP-VB - http://www.vbsight.com
Please keep all discussions in the groups..