I am developing an Application on WinCe, exactly Windows embedded coampact 7, using Visual Studio 2008, C# 3.5, .net Compact Framework 3.5.
Now the designer told me, he needs Anti-Aliased fonts. Does anybody know how to enable anti-Aliasing on WEC7? Do I have to make a specific Plattform Build. Does it need a lot of Performance. Device is quite weak.
Thank you very much for any hint.
Check this article. It's for CE 6 but applies also to Compact 7:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mikehall/archive/2009/04/17/enabling-cleartype-on-windows-ce-6-0.aspx
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Microsoft announced .NET Core 3 comes with WPF and Windows Forms. So can I create a desktop application for Linux or Mac using .NET Core 3?
No, they have clearly stated that these are windows only. In one of the .NET Core 3.0 discussions, they have also clarified that they do not intend to make these features cross-platform in the future since the whole concept is derived from windows specific features. They talked about thinking of a whole new idea for cross-platform applications, which is not easy.
Source: https://youtu.be/HNLZQeu05BY
Update
The newly announced .NET 5 now aims in avoiding all this confusion by no longer calling it ".NET Core".
Update 2
With blazor client-side (releases on may, 2020), there is a new experimental project for cross-platform apps using webview that is in the works.
Source:
https://blog.stevensanderson.com/2019/11/01/exploring-lighter-alternatives-to-electron-for-hosting-a-blazor-desktop-app/
No with WPF or Winforms. But you still can develop desktop apps on Linux, with .NET Core, using other libs like GtkSharp or Avalonia
Well, the name itself says Windows Presentation Foundation. So it's primarily windows based.
But it is worth to be noted that the new UI framework, .NET MAUI that will be shipped with .NET 6 is cross-platform, with a single-codebase, single-project structure.
Currently in Preview at the time of writing, to be shipped in November 2021. Here's the roadmap.
Although it is not native dotnet core on linux, but it may be helpful - using wine.
I find a very useful comment in the discussion here, more details here
In other words, it is possible to use windows version of dotnet core under wine.
I didn't try it yet, but from the article I mentioned I can say it looks nice and might be an option.
I am a windows phone developer. I recently started working on windows CE. I noticed all I have for the UI is a toolbox with a few controls and drag and drop. As a mobile developer I am used to a design language XAML and a backend logic language c#. My question how do i design an application on windows CE. does it has any language (like XAML for windows Phone). and why can't I find a code editor for the UI in visual studio 2008 developing for windows CE
I see many people use Qt. You can easily create UIs like the one on smartphones or even complex 3D ones. Also Qt is cross platform, so if you decide to change the OS you should be able to take your UI with you.
XAML is possible, but is also works with C++ and not with C#.
You will use Blend for creating the UI.
Here some info to get you started:
http://developer.toradex.com/knowledge-base/how-to-create-a-silverlight-application
Some other UI frameworks for WinCE:
http://developer.toradex.com/knowledge-base/gui
I have both Visual Studio 2012 Express for Desktop and for Windows 8, and I wanted to create Direct X applications and games. I know that there is a Windows SDK now, and in VS 2012 exp for win8 the IDE is pre-installed with the SDK (I know that from the new Direct3D project). My question is, if I wanted to develop applications for Windows Desktop (using VS2012exp) does it come Windows SDK or do I need to install Direct X SDK? And how do I know if my graphics card support which version of Direct X? Will any Direct X SDK version work with any Direct X version? As you can see I am a newbie at that stuff and any comment would be helpful. Thanks for your time.
If I wanted to develop applications for Windows
Desktop (using VS2012exp) does it come Windows SDK or do I need to
install Direct X SDK?
Yes, with Windows 8 SDK and Visual Studio 2012 (or Windows 8.1 SDK and Visual Studio 2013 preview) you can develop anything:
DirectX applications (both, Windows Desktop and Windows Store)
for any supported target platform (x86, x64, ARM)
for any reasonably modern Windows operating system (starting from Windows 2000/XP)
using any of API versions: DirectX 9.3, 10.0, 10.1, 11.0, or 11.1
Note:
DirectX 9 API is completely different from 10 and 11, and it is obsolete. Use it only if you targeting Windows versions below Vista.
DirectX 11 is more like an improved version of DirectX 10.
So in most cases, you will want to program for DirectX 11.1.
And no, you don't need to install DirectX SDK. It was deprecated (latest version - june 2010). Do not use it in new code. Use it only if you need to compile some old code which uses D3DX stuff (such as ID3DXEffect, ID3DXFont, ID3DXLine, ID3DXMesh, ID3DXSprite), e.g. samples from books or different SDK samples.
And how do I know if my graphics card support which version of Direct
X?
Well, if we talking about your videocard, you can look at your card vendor's or GPU vendor's site. Or any of informational utilities, such as GPU-Z.
If we talking about end-user hardware, since DirectX 10-11 there are feature levels. So even if you are using latest API (DirectX 11.1 at this moment), you can target old hardware (for example, if you using D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_9_3, newer features, from D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_10_0 and higher will be disabled).
Note, that to develop for latest feature level you don't need GPU that supports it. You can run and debug application on WARP device (ivery slow and meant for debugging purposes only, not for end-user release). For example, you can have old DirectX 10 card (Shader model 4.0), but target to DirectX 11 (Shader model 5.0)
Will any Direct X SDK version work with any Direct X version?
Latest DirectX SDK (june 2010) supports DirectX up to 11. No DirectX 11.1 support.
I'm a developer in Visual Studio who works with the DirectX tooling (the DX Diagnostic Tool and on the new project templates). You're asking a few different questions in here, but I'll try my best to answer the ones that I can.
1 - What SDKs are needed for DX application development? This link here as the best information on this. Basically as of the June 2010 DirectX SDK the DX SDK was combined with the Windows development SDK so if you install the most recent Windows SDK you'll have the right stuff for developing the newest DX applications.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chuckw/archive/2013/07/01/where-is-the-directx-sdk-2013-edition.aspx
This link also has more indepth info specific to the issue of DX Desktop apps on Windows 8.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chuckw/archive/2012/03/23/desktop-games-on-windows-8-consumer-preview.aspx
Note here that you can also install the June 2010 DirectX SDK on your machine, that won't hurt anything, we often install it ourselves as it has some useful sample applications to look at even if they are a bit outdated.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-pk/download/details.aspx?id=6812
2 - How do I know what my graphics card supports? I'm not sure if you mean how do I detect this in my DX application at runtime? Or if you mean how do I just look it up quickly for my specific system. To figure out your own GPU it's usually a pretty quick lookup, just find your device name and punch it in online, most stuff released in the last several years supports DX11 so you should be fine here. If you installed the June 2010 SDK that I mentioned above you can use the capability tool mentioned here:
http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/What-DX-Level-Does-My-Graphics-Card-Support-Does-It-Go-To-11.aspx
At runtime DX has code to use to check if the running graphics card has the ability to use advanced DX 11 features.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh404562(v=vs.85).aspx#check_support_of_new_direct3d_11.1_features_and_formats
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff476876(v=vs.85).aspx
3 - Will any DirectX SDK work with any DX version? So here you basically always want to be using the latest DX SDK as you could see with the link on feature levels above you can target lower levels of DX while still coding using the most recent SDK. Just use the most recent SDK and target feature level 9 if you wanted to create apps that run on DX 9 cards.
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.
Are there any UI Components for Windows CE 6.0, other than the ones supplied by the Compact Framework and Visual Studio? I am developing applications with C# and the Compact Framework that need some visual design and the VS controls and components are not sufficient to me.
Thx your answers.
See this similar question: Round buttons for Windows Mobile. It should be relevant for Windows CE 6 as well. The example is in native code, but you can use SDF 1.4 source code to convert it to C#. I guess you can use the technique shown to create more controls of your own.
I also found this article about creating custom controls for Windows Mobile that might suite Windows CE as well as it is based on the compact framework, but I have not read this through nor tested it.
What components exactly are you looking for?
Windows CE6 R3 now supports Silverlight, so you can do some pretty cool things, although i think it's a little more complicated than typical Silverlight.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/products/windowsce/silverlightforwe.mspx