Thanks Dean! Your comments have helped a lot. I guess what I need is an article expanding on what you stated so I can get more of the complete picture. Every bit helps.
Thanks again, Al "Dean Gahlon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> I understand that vs2005 can be used with widows mobile, but my question >> is >> in regard to Palms SDK's and tools and their compatibility with vs2005. >> If >> you do a search on "visual studio" on the palm source site, you'll >> retrieve >> many articles on integration into VS, if VS is present on your system. >> And >> there is my question for I have vs2005 and after installing palm's sdk's >> and >> tools (I installed a lot of stuff), the process broke vs2005 as mentioned >> in >> my original post. I did this twice and it broke it twice. So something >> is >> going on and that is what I am trying to understand. I am new to Palm so >> I >> do not have a good understanding of all this nor do I know exactly which >> Palm item I installed that messed this up, hence this post. >> > > The links on the palmsource site that come up when you search on > "visual studio" are for building conduits, not palm apps. Palm apps > basically (there are exceptions, but you won't get into them for a > while) run on a Motorola 68000-series processor. Visual Studio > generates applications for an Intel x86 processor. Conduits are > applications that run on a Windows system as part of the hotsync > process. > > To develop applications for devices running PalmOS, you need either > CodeWarrior for PalmOS (commercial, on the verge of disappearing), > PODS (available free from PalmSource), or prc-tools (free, available > on sourceforge.net; this is more or less the same compiler that PODS > uses, but with a somewhat different interface). (There are also > several other more minor ways of developing for PalmOS, but these are > the big 3.) > > Dean > -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
