May 28, 2008
David Clegg has written a very nice article on building Compact Framework applications with RAD Studio 2007.
David Clegg has written a very nice article on building Compact Framework applications with RAD Studio 2007. You can find it at http://dn.codegear.com/article/37915. If you are interested in the topic (like I am), it is a very nice read. Hope to have time to try this out soon...
I'm still using turbo D2005 for CF develpment and was looking forward to find a solution to move to CF.Net 2.0. So this is good news. CF is for me the only reason for ET/CG to maintain .NET support in future versions of Delphi because there's no alternative on the Delphi side to develop applications for the Windows Mobile platform. Also imo there's no need for VCL.NET.
We are using Delphi 2006 for .NET to develop Mobile Apps. Since CF 1.0 seems a Beta Version compared to Cf 2.0 (due lacking of too many features), we had to build our visual controls to get around this. I will try to use Rad Studio to compile for CF 2.0, it seems very interesting. It's true, I would loose the visual form designer and then I would need to manage Resx resources (bitmaps, etc.) manually. But doing so, I could use New version of Microsoft Compact Sql, so I could immediately test our app on the desktop after compiling (version 1.0 of Compact SQL runs only on mobile).
I would try this method to compile CF 2.0 Apps in rad Studio 2007, but I could not find Borland.Delphi.System.pas, in my installation doesn't exists at all the dotnet/rtl folder! I saw that other users are experiencing the same problem, there's a solution? Thanks
I have recently realized that my compilation issues in D2007 for .Net were due to misconfigured directories/paths. Thus, even if all required files were installed, Delphi complained that it could not find Borland.Delphi.System.dcuil. The solution was to edit the paths in "Library - NET" as follows: Library path: $(BDS)\LIB;$(BDS)\lib\Indy10 Package output dir: $(BDSCOMMONDIR)\Bpl DCPIL output dir: $(BDSCOMMONDIR)\dcp Browsing path: $(BDS)\source\dotNet\vcl;$(BDS)\source\dotNet\rtl;$(BDS)\source\dotNet\db;$(BDS)\source\dotNet\dbwebcontrols;$(BDS)\source\dotNet\xml Namespace prefixes: Borland.Vcl Debug DCIUL path: $(BDS)\LIB\DEBUG;$(BDS)\lib\Debug\Indy10 In particular, the namespace prefixes path was critical. HTH.
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