Oxygene for windows Mobile (Windows CE)

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Hi!

Is there a possibility to use Oxygene .NET for programming Windows CE devices (not Windows Phone 7!)??

Since there is no support for VS 2008 I’m wondering if there’s any possibility…

best regards,
Thomas

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Hi Thomas,

I just finished a WinCE project (an embedded Pressure Logger) using Oxygene.
I created a class lib project in Oxygene using VS2010 and targeted the Compact framework (Here is more info on how todo this: http://jeroenvandezande.blogspot.com/2011/09/compact-framework-development-in.html )
I then created the GUI in VS2008 using C# and referenced the class lib I created in Oxygene.
So the amount of C# code I had to write was really very small (mostly instantiating my Oxygene classes and calling methods / properties.

Best Regards,

Jeroen Vandezande

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Jeroen,

thank you for your quick answer!

What I would like to know is if you have debugging support in this constellation?
The problem for me is that the Windows CE device has some special peripherals that can’t be simulated on a PC so it would be best to be able to have debugging available (at least for the hard to spot cases ;-).

best regards,

Thomas

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Hi Thomas,

Yes, I was a bit surprised about that; At some point I got an exception in the Oxygene code and VS2008 stopped and loaded the .pas file. It did not have colors (looked like plain ascii) but it did highlight the line that caused the exception and I could hover over the variables and get values.

Because this VS2008 was running in a VM (VS2010 was running on the Host OS) I then installed Prism XE on VS2008 and then I also got syntax highlighting.

Best Regards,

Jeroen

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Jeroen’s answer is about the best you can do. Even in VS2008, we didn’t support WinCE, due to lack of support for 3rd party languages by Microsoft.

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Ok, thank you for your help!

Thomas