I guess this is more a Microsoft question than Palm question but I'm hoping someone here will know the answer.
I am trying to understand which Microsoft product I need to be able to run with CDK 4.03. The Palm web site says I need Microsoft Visual C++ .NET. I know there is an older SDK for Visual C++ 6.0 which I used to get through the conduit examples in the book (on a friend's computer with an academic version of VC++ 6.0)
My client is part of the Microsoft Developer Network and has sent me an April 2004 msdn DVD containing a bunch of programs but it doesn't explicitly contain "Microsoft Visual C++ .NET." It has Visual C++ 1.52 and Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect and even Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise Edition with service pack 5 and a bunch of eMbedded stuff.
My Windows programming experience is limited to Borland's C++ Builder and I just don't understand Microsoft's products. Is any of this junk considered Visual C++ .NET?
When CDK 4.03 was build, Visual C++ .NET was the current C++ developer tool that Microsoft had released. This version is now called Visual C++ .NET 2002. The previous CDK (4.02a) was build using Visual C++ 6.0.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/previous/ lists the various versions of the VC++ tools.
While the CDK libraries are compatible with almost any Windows development tool, MFC-based conduits tend to be specific to VC++ versions, and wizards for quickly making new conduits are also tool-specific.
From MSDN, the Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect package is what you need. It has the Visual Studio environment along with support for all of Microsoft's .NET languages, including VC++.
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