I got Windows CE 5 device, and I tried to make apps for it.
But I had to install VS 2005 Professional which is non-free one. I didn't wanted to do that.
What I want to ask is, is there (free) alternative for this?
From what I remember, Microsoft Embedded Visual C++ is free as in beer, and allows you to write C/C++ applications for CE 5.0.
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Is it even possible - without it being a labrinthian process to devlope applications for CE 5.0? I have VS 2012 Premium. Also if I download the 5.0 SDK during the install it claims I do not have the reight environment and the link to MS is no longer valid.I am stuck.
Yes, it is still very possible, just not with the latest development tool.
Visual Studio 2008 Professional or better (not Standard, not Express) is the last set of tools that Microsoft shipped that had compilers, etc for Windows CE. It can target CE 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0 (maybe 4.x as well, but it's been a long time since I used one, so I'm not certain).
Studio 2012 will never support those older CE OSes. It will support the newest incarnation of CE, dubbed "Windows Embedded Compact 2013", when it comes out later this year.
I don't think that VS 2012 supports CE5. I know that VS 2005 aka VC8 supports CE, as does Platform Builder 5 (the CE building toolkit) and maybe eVC4. I guess you can get VS 2005 relatively cheap, maybe your VS 2012 license even allows you to install it without any additional cost. When buying something, take care that not every VS version supports everything, cheap student versions might not support CE.
Is it possible to normally run Visual C++ Express edition on windows7 64-bit?
Because when I try to install it, the setup window says "visual c++ 2010 express includes the 32-bit visual c++ compiler toolset".
I am a student and intend to use the IDE for learning/practicing C language. I don't plan to create windows-ready applications anytime soon with the windows SDK.
So, will it allow me to write and compile normally without the 64-bit compiler toolset(on my 64-bit system)? I mean will it make any difference if I don't plan on making applications using SDK? If yes, please explain how?
And finally, should I go on and install it or opt for other C/C++ IDE? I previously used Dev C++ but it isn't as great on Windows 7.
Thanks.
Yes, you'll be able to run your programs as every other 32-bit application - via WoW64 (Windows-on-Windows64) technology.
Yes, Windows 7 64bit supports pretty much all 32bit applications just fine (except if they depend on some 32bit-only driver components, but most applications don't do that).
Is it possible to run VB.NET in Linux?
I have written code in VB.NET and compiled it as well using Visual Studio in Windows.
Can the same code be written (and compiled) on Linux as well?
If yes, then which software do I need to install on Linux?
Is the Linux alternative of VB.NET freeware?
You can run Visual Basic, VB.NET, C# code and applications on Linux.
The most popular .NET IDE is Visual Studio (now in version 2019) that runs in Windows and macOS. A good alternative for Linux users is Visual Studio Code (runs on Linux, Windows and Mac).
You can compile and run VB.NET code and applications (part of .NET framework, consider the successor of Visual Basic, with several language differences from Visual Basic 6.0). A subset of .NET is .NET Core that can be installed on
Red Hat Linux,
Ubuntu,
Linux Mint,
Debian,
Fedora,
CentOS,
Oracle Linux
and openSUSE Linux distributions.
Setup details are on https://www.microsoft.com/net/core.
You can also use Mono, a free and open-source project led by Xamarin (a subsidiary of Microsoft) and the .NET Foundation. The project focus is to support an ECMA standard-compliant .NET Framework-compatible set of tools (including a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime).
Mono can be installed on
Ubuntu,
Debian,
Raspbian (used in Raspberry Pi)
and CentOS Linux distributions.
You can run most Windows applications (created with VB, VB.NET or with other tools) using Wine that supports the Windows API on Linux.
** About Visual Basic (not VB.NET, due to the original question) **
Note that the last version of visual basic is 6.0, released in 1998, declared legacy during 2008 and supported on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 including R2, Windows 7, Windows Server 2012, and Windows 8.x. There are also other basic flavors (like QuickBASIC, Gambas or others).
The support end dates for Visual Basic 6.0 are:
The Visual Basic 6.0 IDE [Integrated Development Environment]:
supported ended on April 8, 2008.
Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime the base libraries and execution engine used to run Visual Basic 6.0 applications: support ended on April 8, 2014.
Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime Extended Files: support ended on April 8, 2014.
You could have a look at the Mono VisualBasic.Net support, or maybe go and check out the Gambas project.
You won't find a fully compatible solution.
There are a few, like SimpleBasic, GnomeBasic and XBasic. None of them are fully compatible with Visual Basic.
The above answer was accepted eons ago, but is horribly outdated, since more recently, there's also .NET Core. This will run the actual VB.NET language, but it will not use Windows Forms controls and features powering most real VB.NET applications. .NET Core 3 does support some variation of Windows Forms, but only on Windows.
Please check Pedro Polonia's excellent answer that contains all the details that mine misses.
Mono is a really interesting project. You can run applications on Linux.
Is not fully compatible, but they are working on that.
Take a look in this site Working with Mono
VB on linux is posible using vb2005.
First install wine.
run in the terminal winetricks dotnet20 dotnet40
download the installer and run it
(wine Downloads/yourinstaller.exe)
execute wine WINEPREFIX=~/yourprefix WINEARCH='win32' wine yourprefix/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Visual\ Studio\ 8/Common7/IDE/vbexpress.exe
Gambas Basic is actively developed and works good. Here you can find a small tutorial for programming a calculator:
Gambas Basic 3.14
This is now possible using .NET Core.
Publish .NET apps with the .NET CLI
How to run a .NET Core console application on Linux
The Java countdown is now running :-)
For those looking for an alternative to Visual-Basic and Visual-Studio with cross-platform support, B4J (Basic For Java) is a good choice too. It's free, kind-of\semi "open-sourced" and really user friendly especially for those coming from VS.
I need to emulate a Windows CE executable on my Windows 7 64-bit machine. Back in the day, I used eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0's bundled device emulator, but nowadays the cool kids want me to use "Platform Builder" and ActiveSync. So I found a Windows CE Platform Builder 3.0 update here, but I can't find the original download, which it requires:
PB not installed: Please install Windows CE Platform Builder 3.00 before
installing this Update.
My problem stems from having installed the Standard CE SDK (STANDARD_SDK.msi) and a Windows CE BSP, which shows up in Visual Studio 2008's "Device Emulator Manager", but I can't connect to or run them. The Pocket PC images work, though.
Where do I find Windows CE Platform Builder 3.00?
Platform Builder 3.0 is really, really old and I doubt any distributors carry it any more. When it was a shipping product, a distributor (Arrow, Avnet, etc) was the only place you could get it, so that's where I'd at least check on the long-shot chance.
That said, I'm not at all sure why you feel you need it. Platform Builder is for generating an OS image. PB is a difficult tool to get to know, and the 3.0 version was unwieldy at best. It's also not going to run under 64-bit. It also can't create an OS that runs on a 64-bit machine. It also cannot create an SDK that will plug into any version of Studio (well it might work in VS 2003 - it's been a long time since I did that).
What it actually sounds like you're after is an emulator and image for that emulator for a basic CE 3.0 device. Microsoft shipped the HPC Pro emulator, which was a 3.0-based device with the EVC tool set, though I've got no idea where you'd find it (short of digging out old MSDN disks).
For what it's worth, the PocketPC 2003 images are CE 3.0-based, so you do have a CE 3.0 emulator today - it's just not a more generic CE build.
Ideally I think you need to tell us exactly what you need. An emulated version of what sort of CE 3.0 OS? What components? Targeting what OS (the old emulator would only do x86, so if you have some ARM or MIPS app, that was never emulated anyway).
Okay, so I have a legacy Codebase and an old Visual C++ 6.0 Standard Installation CD. I want to install that on my Windows XP SP3 System.
Is there anything I would need to avoid or to download besides SP6?
Are executables created with VC6 compatible on Vista and Windows 7? (I know that there is no 64-Bit compiler, and that's fine)
(I know that vc6 is old, unsupported and somewhat crappy, but my C++ skills are barely good enough to compile, make 2 or 3 small changes and re-compile, but not good enough to make sure it compiles in VS2008)
It's fine. Install SP6 and that should be it. You might need other dependencies; the platform SDK, if you need it, will require hunting for an older version than what's currently available.
AFAIK it should run fine provided you install VC++ runtime. I think you should install VC6 runtime to be sure, not the recent versions.
For latecomers who don't know where to get this "SP6" we're talking about, it's at:
"Visual Studio 6.0 service packs, what, where, why"
"Product Updates for Visual C++ 6.0"
"Service Pack 6 for Visual Basic 6.0, Visual C++ 6.0 with Visual Source Safe 6.0d"