3rd Party Controls written for the .Net Compact Framework.

Hi,

3rd party companies sell controls that they have written for .NET like
ActiveX controls are developed to be used with Visual Basic.

Can 3rd party controls written for the .NET Compact Framework be used
in the Device IDE or do you have to develop programs that use 3rd party
controls on the Desktop IDE first and then compile for the Device?

If 3rd party controls can be used in the Device IDE how do you load them
in where you can see them in the list of available controls?

Hello,

Third party controls are delivered as libraries. Most times you can use these libraries only if you write a wrapper library for such libraries.

I made some testing with the demo version of the Touchcontrols library from mirabyte and it worked quite well. Though it is much work to write a wrapper for this library which will support all members and properties.

So the answer for your question is: Yes, you can use 3rd party controls but you have to write a wrapper library for them. Be aware that there are 3rd party control libraries such the SenseSDK library from XDA-Developers which require .NET 3.5. I think it is not possible to support this library with B4PPC.

You can never use 3rd party controls in the designer. Not on desktop and not on the device.

Be aware that there are 3rd party control libraries such the SenseSDK library from XDA-Developers which require .NET 3.5. I think it is not possible to support this library with B4PPC.

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Actually you can work with .Net 3.5 libraries if .Net CF 3.5 is installed.