As requested a little while ago, I will try to share my experience now more than one year after I asked the original question. We decided to use Windriver, but so far we have only written a driver for Windows CE 6.0, so I cannot comment on the cross-platform support. Using Windriver on Windows CE … Read more
I worked for several years at a company that provided both CE and Linux for all of their hardware, so I’m fairly familiar with both sides of this equation. Tools: Windows CE tools certainly are better than those provided by Linux, though the linux tools are certainly getting better. Performance: Windows CE is real-time. Linux … Read more
It could be any number of things. Likely causes are: The assembly cannot be found An assembly that your assembly depends upon cannot be found The assembly is found but the type isn’t in it The type’s static constructor throws an exception Your best bet is to use the Fusion log viewer to help diagnose … Read more
It is poorly documented. Both .NET Compact Framework Redistributable and Power Toys must be installed for all necessary files (such as MSBuild targets files) to be available for compilation.
Use _fileno followed by _get_osfhandle. Don’t forget to _close it when you are done. EDIT: it’s not clear to me that _get_osfhandle is supported on WinCE. However the docs for WinCE _fileno say it returns a “file handle” rather than “descriptor”. YMMV but this suggests that you can maybe just use _fileno return value directly … Read more
You still have access to StreamWriter: using (System.IO.StreamWriter file = new System.IO.StreamWriter(@”\hereIam.txt”)) { file.WriteLine(sb.ToString()); // “sb” is the StringBuilder } From the MSDN documentation: Writing to a Text File (Visual C#). For newer versions of the .NET Framework (Version 2.0. onwards), this can be achieved with one line using the File.WriteAllText method. System.IO.File.WriteAllText(@”C:\TextFile.txt”, stringBuilder.ToString());
To use unsafe code blocks, the project has to be compiled with the /unsafe switch on. Open the properties for the project, go to the Build tab and check the Allow unsafe code checkbox.