Jeffrey Vanneste

Just noticed this tonight. Not only can you create 2.0b2 compact framework applications with Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 but you can also create 1.0 SP3 applications as well.

Wow! ClickOnce is very cool. If you haven't tried a ClickOnce application spend a couple minutes and give it a try. I was going to write an article on getting started with it but I found one already written which was close enough to work with beta2.

It's finally out! I had a chance to play with it for a few hours today. The first thing I tested was trying one of my Pocket PC games in the new Device Emulator (version 8). Finally I'm able to test my games that make GAPI calls. Previously I had to debug all my stuff on my Ipaq which was a pain to do not to mention it doesn't have Windows Mobile 2003SE.

After migrating one of my Pocket PC games I played with ASP.NET 2.0 a bit as I use ASP.NET at work all the time. The beta2 .NET framework comes with a great sample library explaining all the features of ASP.NET 2.0 and whats added/different from the 1.0. This should keep me busy for awhile.

With previous versions of VS2005 I had random crashes every now and then but so far this one has been a lot more stable. Anyways, back to playing.