Smart Device Extension Required

[Mark Miles]

Dear ALL,

I would like to say firstly that I followed Microsoft links and I do
know that they want to push you towards buying .Net 2003. I can not afford
this and I will not be force into it. I spent time saving for an Visual
Studio .Net 2002 and my wife will not allow me to upgrade.

I have purchased a iPaq Pocket PC to replace my Visor (which I
programmed a lot using AppForge) but now want to rewrite some of me apps
using VB.Net. I am aware of Embedded Visual Tools (VB 3) and Embedded
Visual C++ 4 (learning is required).

Someone out there must have the SDE add-in that will work on my existing
Visual Studio.Net 2002., again I can not upgrade to 2003 or use the Trail
version.

Expect this is another Microsoft tactic of sucking us smaller developers
dry of resources.

Any help is appreciated.

Mark

 

[Dick Grier]

Hi,

All of this is AFAIK.

I don't know of any SDE that is available. There was a beta version, but it
isn't downloadable any longer.

Microsoft offered the upgrade to 2003 from 2002 for $29 during most of last
year (for at least 6 months). However, it is my understanding that this
inexpensive upgrade offer expired a couple of months ago.

--
Richard Grier (Microsoft Visual Basic MVP)

See www.hardandsoftware.net for contact information.

Author of Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications, 3rd
Edition ISBN 1-890422-27-4 (391 pages) published February 2002.

 

[Ed Kaim [MSFT]]

That is correct. The "Smart Device Extensions" have become the smart device
programmability features in Visual Studio .NET 2003. The early beta version
was released as a plug-in to Visual Studio .NET 2002, but the final version
is only available as part of Visual Studio .NET 2003.