Cs0234

[mikewhite]

Hi,

I'm trying to compile a very simple (device) program but get an Error popping up, saying:

CS0234: The type or namespace name 'WindowsCE' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

This starts to happen when I add the ControlsEXDevice.dll to the project.

Any help appreciated please!

Thanks

Mike White

[Erel]

Make sure you are using the latest version of this library: ControlsExDevice library

[mikewhite]

Erel,

I extracted these to ...\Anywhere Software\Basic4ppc Desktop\Libraries

is that correct?
I still get the error but I notice I only get it if I have the option "Optimized Compilation" checked.

Mike

[Erel]

You should also replace the dll files that are located in the source code folder.

[mikewhite]

I tried that but still no luck.

What I have found is that if I use ControlsEXDeviceDummy on the Device side the program compiles and runs (I'm using a DateTime Picker at the moment).

Is that what I should have been doing?

Mike

[agraham]

You should have ControlsExDeviceDummy as the desktop component and ControlsExDevice for the device. If you have not had the dummy or the "real" library as a component on the desktop this may be why the compiler fails as it picks up information from the desktop library even when compiling for the device.

[mikewhite]

Thanks for that. But to confirm:

If I have ControlsEXDevice on the Device Side and ControlsEXDeviceDummy on the desktop I get the compile error.

If I have ControlsEXDeviceDummy on the Device side it compiles.

The odd thing is, I think this worked yesterday :/

Perhaps I will try to uninstall and reinstall Basic4ppc but I'm not sure that will help.

I have no other Components set at all, just these.

Thanks again,

Mike

[agraham]

Can you compile the ControlsExDeviceDemo app that comes with the library?

P.S. If you are wondering why I've jumped into this thread it's because I wrote those libraries and they compile fine on my machine - and other peoples - so I don't think there is anything intrinsically wrong with the library code.

[mikewhite]

No,

that program does not compile either - same error. There must be something wrong with the setup on my machine. Likely in the .net stuff somewhere.
Any idea where I could start to look?

Thanks for jumping in, by the way, all help appreciated.

Mike

[agraham]

@Erel. Does he need to have installed CF 2.0 on the device to get his desktop updated with the CF assemblies used by the C# compiler? The CF 2.0 redistributable is so huge that I assumed it had bits for the desktop SDK included as well - but I don't really know!