October 2005

Compact Framework – Malcolm Groves

Malcolm Groves from Borland gave an overview of Compact Framework. He provided us with a list of links.

* Delphi CF Preview :

http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,33271,00.html
* Delphi CF Quickstart Guide :

http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,33066,00.html
This is a good guide to getting it all setup on your machine. Also has
links to download emulators, rom images, etc

* Chewy’s Pre-processor :

http://blogs.borland.com/chewy/archive/2005/09/12/21085.aspx
This is 100% required if you don’t want to end up with a hairline like mine. Tthe issue I mentioned that stopped this working for me is
now resolved. You may need to download again.

*OpenNetCF : http://www.opennetcf.org

Open source libraries to give you access to a lot of stuff CF doesn’t
cover

* Delphi CF Quickstart Guide Part II :

http://www.scip.be/index.php?Page=ArticlesDelphi15&Lang=EN
A follow on to the Quickstart above, by a different author. Drills more
into what’s missing/different between desktop .NET and CF .NET

* MS CF Quickstart Tutorials :

http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/compactframework/

And from another generous ADUGger, Jeremy N,

Further to this you may also want to look at…

Video showing integration working. Note these are a little old now and
things have changed (for the better).

http://www.jed-software.com/files/CFVideo.zip

This has been reorganised in the gallery but the items are the same.

http://jedqc.blogspot.com/2005/09/strange-gallery-items-in-your-delphi.html

Support for Chee Wee’s auto fix dll is included plus there is a Class Helper
library included which basically means you don’t even need Chee Wee’s auto
fix for most projects although I still recommend using auto fix and the class helper library.