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).
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Is it possible to create Wince Setup in Winodws 10? If yes ther how,
Actually I want to build Eboot source code and create image for that.
how can we build this source code in windows 10.
Generally to build Windows CE source code you need Platform Builder.
This is a plugin for a specific version of Visual Studio.
CE6 - VS2005
CE7 - VS2008
CE2013 - VS2013/VS2015
If you plan to build for CE6 you'll have to install VS2005. I don't know if this is possible. For sure VS2008 works.
You can use a virtual machine running an older version of windows or, if you already have a WINCE600 folder backed up you can install VS2008 and Platform Builder and choose that folder as your CEROOT folder. This is not officially supported by MS (and will never be), but works for me and other people that needed to use old CE versions on a new PC.
I currently need to work on a Compact Framework Project again. I used to do this some time ago with VS 2008, however I don't have a license for this anymore. I do have licenses for 2012, and it really seemed like good timing for me given the recent announcements (Get started developing for Windows Embedded Compact in Visual Studio (Compact 2013)).
I downloaded and installed Application Builder for Windows Embedded Compact 2013
And install the Embedded Compact 2013 Update 5 (full setup).
Unfortunately after these steps the Project Templates still won't show up.
My current understanding is that the template will only be visible when I also install the SDK.
The SDK provided for the Windows Embedded Compact 2013 product that you are targeting. Typically, this SDK is provided by an OEM.
However, I don't have a device for development, I used to use the emulator for this and they used to be available in Visual Studio without big fuzz.
I tried to find an emulator using my preferred web search, but without any success.
Using Windows Embedded Compact 2013 (WEC2013) it's impossible to develop a Net CF 3.9 application without an SDK.
There isn't a default SDK. In general, when you have an embedded system, it isn't general purpose but it has specific features that the OEM exposes with a custom SDK. In this way, avoiding standard SDK, who develop application can't use feature that there won't be on the target hardware.
The only way you have to start develop is to install Platform Builder and using built in CEPC BSP to create a CEPC image for a virtual machine and an SDK for it.
After installing this SDK you can use your virtual machine with CEPC image to run your application. In this way you can create an "emulator" for a x86 system with WEC2013 on it.
Paolo.
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 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 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.