ce4.2 headless with cf1 ??? Help please !

Yes, I know how old it is ! I'm thinking of becoming a historian ;)
Our ce6 platform is not finished yet, so I have to go to market using our
old ce4.2 platform. (We dont have a ce5 platform)
We have a vs2003/c# app that is just going into beta ... but ... all the
prototypes have been on a hardware build with a display, but the target
production spec does not include a display, as it is an embedded box hidden
in a cabinet somewhere.

I have now found out that cf just doesnt appear in the catalog for a
headless device.

I know this is an old issue, but there doesnt appear to be any useful info
out there that doesnt include using cf2, which as I understand it isnt
possible with vs2003, and ce4.2 cant be targetted with vs2005.

ctacke/>
Tue Dec 18 06:14:26 PST 2007

Please crosspost. I've answered this elsewhere.


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"Phil H"
<phil-d-o-t-harris-a-t-trendcontrols-d-o-t-com@kill.all.spammers.now> wrote
in message news:D9208976-C152-460E-9A09-FF0D47AC4A18@microsoft.com...
> Yes, I know how old it is ! I'm thinking of becoming a historian ;)
> Our ce6 platform is not finished yet, so I have to go to market using our
> old ce4.2 platform. (We dont have a ce5 platform)
> We have a vs2003/c# app that is just going into beta ... but ... all the
> prototypes have been on a hardware build with a display, but the target
> production spec does not include a display, as it is an embedded box
> hidden
> in a cabinet somewhere.
>
> I have now found out that cf just doesnt appear in the catalog for a
> headless device.
>
> I know this is an old issue, but there doesnt appear to be any useful info
> out there that doesnt include using cf2, which as I understand it isnt
> possible with vs2003, and ce4.2 cant be targetted with vs2005.

Dean
Tue Dec 18 06:23:13 PST 2007

I'm not a CF expert, but you can get around these kinds of issues by
building a headed device with a dummy display driver. Remember you don't
have to have a physical display; as long as the infrastructure is there to
make the OS happy you're good to go. There is a NOP display driver just for
this purpose. It will create the framebuffer the OS needs to make it happy,
and you don't need to have a display controller eating up bandwidth.

See BSP_DISPLAY_NOP env variable for more details.

--
Dean Ramsier - eMVP
BSQUARE Corporation


"Phil H"
<phil-d-o-t-harris-a-t-trendcontrols-d-o-t-com@kill.all.spammers.now> wrote
in message news:D9208976-C152-460E-9A09-FF0D47AC4A18@microsoft.com...
> Yes, I know how old it is ! I'm thinking of becoming a historian ;)
> Our ce6 platform is not finished yet, so I have to go to market using our
> old ce4.2 platform. (We dont have a ce5 platform)
> We have a vs2003/c# app that is just going into beta ... but ... all the
> prototypes have been on a hardware build with a display, but the target
> production spec does not include a display, as it is an embedded box
> hidden
> in a cabinet somewhere.
>
> I have now found out that cf just doesnt appear in the catalog for a
> headless device.
>
> I know this is an old issue, but there doesnt appear to be any useful info
> out there that doesnt include using cf2, which as I understand it isnt
> possible with vs2003, and ce4.2 cant be targetted with vs2005.

phil-d-o-t-harris-a-t-trendcontrols-d-o-t-com
Tue Dec 18 08:14:01 PST 2007

Thanks for your reply in the compact framework group.
Unfortunately I've never worked out how to link two posts together.

"<ctacke/>" wrote:

> Please crosspost. I've answered this elsewhere.
>
>
> --
>
> Chris Tacke, eMVP
> Join the Embedded Developer Community
> http://community.opennetcf.com
>
>
> "Phil H"
> <phil-d-o-t-harris-a-t-trendcontrols-d-o-t-com@kill.all.spammers.now> wrote
> in message news:D9208976-C152-460E-9A09-FF0D47AC4A18@microsoft.com...
> > Yes, I know how old it is ! I'm thinking of becoming a historian ;)
> > Our ce6 platform is not finished yet, so I have to go to market using our
> > old ce4.2 platform. (We dont have a ce5 platform)
> > We have a vs2003/c# app that is just going into beta ... but ... all the
> > prototypes have been on a hardware build with a display, but the target
> > production spec does not include a display, as it is an embedded box
> > hidden
> > in a cabinet somewhere.
> >
> > I have now found out that cf just doesnt appear in the catalog for a
> > headless device.
> >
> > I know this is an old issue, but there doesnt appear to be any useful info
> > out there that doesnt include using cf2, which as I understand it isnt
> > possible with vs2003, and ce4.2 cant be targetted with vs2005.
>
>
>

ctacke/>
Tue Dec 18 08:29:29 PST 2007

When you create the message in your reader (like Outlook Express that I'm
using), simply list all of the groups in the "Newsgroups" line at the top
when you post.

-Chris


"Phil H"
<phil-d-o-t-harris-a-t-trendcontrols-d-o-t-com@kill.all.spammers.now> wrote
in message news:C6496FA6-8D94-4D9A-8CDA-79F36EC0C234@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for your reply in the compact framework group.
> Unfortunately I've never worked out how to link two posts together.
>
> "<ctacke/>" wrote:
>
>> Please crosspost. I've answered this elsewhere.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Chris Tacke, eMVP
>> Join the Embedded Developer Community
>> http://community.opennetcf.com
>>
>>
>> "Phil H"
>> <phil-d-o-t-harris-a-t-trendcontrols-d-o-t-com@kill.all.spammers.now>
>> wrote
>> in message news:D9208976-C152-460E-9A09-FF0D47AC4A18@microsoft.com...
>> > Yes, I know how old it is ! I'm thinking of becoming a historian ;)
>> > Our ce6 platform is not finished yet, so I have to go to market using
>> > our
>> > old ce4.2 platform. (We dont have a ce5 platform)
>> > We have a vs2003/c# app that is just going into beta ... but ... all
>> > the
>> > prototypes have been on a hardware build with a display, but the target
>> > production spec does not include a display, as it is an embedded box
>> > hidden
>> > in a cabinet somewhere.
>> >
>> > I have now found out that cf just doesnt appear in the catalog for a
>> > headless device.
>> >
>> > I know this is an old issue, but there doesnt appear to be any useful
>> > info
>> > out there that doesnt include using cf2, which as I understand it isnt
>> > possible with vs2003, and ce4.2 cant be targetted with vs2005.
>>
>>
>>