Smartdevice projects opened in a Compact 2013 development context are not automatically upgraded to Compact Framework 3.9. This article discusses techniques for upgrading of Smartdevice (Compact 7) projects to the  Compact 2013 context (Compact Framework 3.9). This includes comparison of project files as well as use of the CEESharpWiz wizard.

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This article discusses the just recently released CECompactTools on Codeplex. This toolset has been morphed from Compact13Tools in that it provides the same shell apps for a Compact 2013 OS using the same C# source code but the Managed code is built directly as an OS Subproject!. That is, unlike Compact13Tools, there is only one software layer.

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A Wizard, like CEDriverWiz etc, that runs from Tools menu to generate or import a C# Managed Code OS Subproject for Windows Embedded Compact 2013 Projects.

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Version 5.0 has been further updated to version 5.2.

This fixes some issues in version 5.0, 5.1 and 5.11

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This article discusses the just released Compact13Tools Version 5.0 software architecture for Compact13Tools. This version has the full source for the Managed Code which it builds via a batch file.The software is structured as two layers. (Read on for more.) The next blog will introduce CEToolbox which directly builds to Managed Code tools as OS Source Subprojects; a topic covered in the previous three blogs. This article is essentially a slides presentation with some *comments.

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Topics:

• Building Managed Code as part of the OS (Part 3): Debugging
• Windows 8.1 Update
• $0 Windows Licesninsing and Open Source

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Coming soon, Compact13TileShell as an alternative to Compact13MinShell:

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