I want to write an application for my Windows 6.1 standard smart phone that intercepts incoming SMS messages and auto responds if they match a specific criteria, but despite installing countless SDk's I am unable to do what I need.
The code I want to use relies on the Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook.dll assembly, but I can't seem to find that assembly. Is it possible to use this assembly on a standard mobile device, or do I have to have a Windows Mobile professional device?
So basically I need help getting set up to create Windows Mobile applications.
I am using SharpDevelop (because I
can't afford Visual Studio).
I need the
Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook
assembly (Since I have already written code that should work, that uses it).
A device emulator would also be nice
so I don't have to test on my phone.
Is what I want to do possible on a Windows 6.1 Standard device (HTC OZone)?
Any help would be appreciated, since I am completely stuck at this point.
Thanks,
I tried to compile my code and I get the following errors, as I suspected I would.
The type or namespace name
'WindowsMobile' does not exist in the
namespace 'Microsoft' (are you
missing an assembly reference?)
I can't find the Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook assembly so of course I'm missing an assembly reference.
Where can I get this assembly, and will this code run on my Windows 6.1 Standard phone if I can find it?
In my opinion it's very difficult for someone new to Windows Mobile development to work without Visual Studio.
In theory you can use SharpDevelop or MonoDevelop, but you wouldn't be able to do any debugging on the emulator or a connected device. Being able to debug by stepping through the code while it's running seems to me an unmissable thing if you're new to Windows Mobile and are not quite sure why something you coded is not working. It requires more effort and time to debug something and in the end you might find it more cost effective to buy a Visual Studio license.
The minimum required is Visual Studio 2005 Standard. You could try to see if you can find somewhere that sells it cheaply (as most developers now use VS2008/2010). If you're a student you could get an academic license or take advantage of Microsoft's DreamSpark program. Or if you're a startup you could look at Microsoft's BizSpark program.
Try starting with sample code that has most of you requirements implemented. The SDK comes with the sample: SMSIM
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It demonstrates how to use C# to write a managed code version of a Short Messaging Service (SMS) interception application.
I hope this helps.
Mike
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Is there any way to compile some Windows API code without installing any development environments to Windows?
Does Windows come with a C Compiler built in that I could just write some code in notepad, and run it through a cmd or a batch file?
.NET includes a command line compiler for C#. (not exactly what you asked for, but it might suit you.) I believe .NET is preinstalled on modern versions of Windows. Look in the folder \Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4* and see if you have a file called CSC.EXE. This is the command line compiler for C#.
See
"How can I compile a .NET project without having Visual Studio installed?"
Working with the C# 2.0 Command Line Compiler
Is it possible to install a C# compiler without Visual Studio?
For more information and examples.
You can also get the free version of Visual Studio that supports C++. Download Visual Studio Community 2013
No version of Windows I am aware of comes with a C compiler.
No, Windows does not come with a C compiler.
And I don't mean to sound patronizing, but why do you think it'd make sense for it to come with one? Sure, it'd be handy --- if it were a decent compiler --- but beside that, it is not required for normal OS operation. An optimizing compiler is a complex piece of software that would not see any use at all from most users (since most users aren't developers --- and even they might prefer using a compiler of their choice instead of something that just happened to be around).
I should note that at least some Linux distros also come without a compiler by default (as long as it's not needed as a dependency for something else --- which, granted, can happen easily).
As others have pointed out, Windows does not come with a preinstalled C compiler. There are several good free one available for download (including a freeware version of microsoft visual c), but that does not mean you can't access with Windows API/SDK.
If you need to make API/SDK calls without the requirement you install anything, you can use Windows Script Hosting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Script_Host. It supports a number of languages out of the box, such as Jscript, VBScript, and has the ability to add even more options. Using Windows Script Hosting you can create any call you require into the Windows API/SDK.
Newer versions of windows have started to move towards powershell which is even more powerful -- but is not yet universally available which might mean having to install addition software (which I assume is what you are trying to avoid).
I think you may want Visual Studio Express.
http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-express-vs.aspx
You do not mention which version of Windows. Also Windows API calls are customarily built with Visual C++. Although you could build with C# or VB.NET and wrap the calls. As another poster mentioned, if your version includes a .NET, then there are command line building tools available
I finally was able to successfully install the Windows SDK tools (v.7.1) on my Windows Vista system. I already had the GCC compiler installed and that is what I currently use to compile C code.
Where do I find the documentation for the WinSDK and how should I go about including it in GCC?
I couldn't find any explanations in the release notes or anything. However, if you can find something that explains it, feel free to give me a link.
This might sound weird to you, but you didn't need to download any separate Windows SDK to develop for Windows, because Visual Studio, and MingW/GCC, and others, already commonly include all that most people would need. (Some people would say, that Visual Studio and other tools, ship with their own version of the SDK, but I think that's merely confusing the issue further.)
You need Visual Studio first. And maybe, some day later, you might want to add the Windows SDK add on to it, but it is not intended to be used by itself, or in combination with GCC.
Basically, some of the SDK content duplicates stuff that is already included in Visual C++ and Visual Studio and some of it is additional tools like WinDbg.
Let me explain. The Windows SDK is indeed, useful for doing certain things in Windows that beginners are unlikely to need to do. For example, if you need to integrate with some specialized APIs, the Windows SDK contains a lot of documentation, examples, and a more complete set of header files that weren't included in Visual Studio because they're less frequently used APIs. The core API headers and documentation for Windows are already in Visual Studio, so technically, Visual Studio already contains the core SDK, and the so called SDK is an "auxiliary SDK", or a "low level SDK for purists, advanced users, and certain kinds of systems or native-level programming", but not needed, for most typical end-user applications development.
But if you want to learn Win32 native programming using C or C++, or you just want to write native Windows applications you PROBABLY don't need anything that comes in the SDK, and even then you need Visual Studio first, and the SDK second. Let me explain:
Many tools that let you write pure native Windows applications, provide higher level APIs, including Visual Studio, which gives you MFC or ATL. None of those tools need the SDK to work. The SDK, so called, is more of a "extra crap that we don't ship with visual studio because hardly anybody needs it", which Microsoft abbreviated to SDK. I know. Weird.
You don't need the SDK at all if you intend to use GCC. If you want to write an application for Windows in bare C or bare C++, you can just install mingw if you insist on using gcc and working from the command line.
The normal way to write native applications is to use the free Microsoft Visual C++ Express edition, and you can use it to write either C or C++ apps, and it includes the header files and libraries you need to write almost any native windows application feature you need, without any need for the SDK. Visual Studio is a nice modern IDE, and lots of convenient cool features like code completion and so on. The SDK you downloaded doesn't contain any of that.
Anything you do need to know about the raw Win32 APIs you can learn using the Web format of the MSDN documentation, or the help in Visual Studio. The basic Windows APIs like WinCreateWindow, are documented already in the Visual Studio help and MSDN help, and you don't need the SDK docs for most of the core windows APIs.
If you're just getting started, can I suggest you should just go get the free (but not open source) Visual Studio 2010 Express. That's the recommended way to get started, not the SDK.
I'm quite sure that the Windows 7 SDK that you downloaded is not intended for use with GCC anyways, and if you need a version of windows header files that work with a Gnu C/C++ compiler, any basic Win32 APIs like GDI and the basic Windowing API stuff is already bundled in mingw version of gcc.
You might also want to know about the DDK, which is like the SDK but which is oriented towards Device Driver and native NT-mode development.
I've been tasked with porting an existing Windows GUI app to Linux. Ideally, I'd like to do this so the same code base can be used to build either the Windows version or the Linux version. I'll be doing my work on Ubuntu 9.04. After searching around, it's unclear to me what tools are best suited to help me with this.
A list of loose requirements would be:
The code is in C, not C++, and should compile to build both Windows and Linux versions. Since it's existing code, and fairly large, converting to a managed language like .NET is out of the question for now.
I would prefer if I can use the same dialogs in both systems. In Windows, putting up a dialog is pretty simple. You build the dialog in the Resource Editor in Visual Studio, then call DialogBox() API, and handle the event messages. I would really like to find something that can do the equivalent on the Linux side.
It would also be nice to have a good IDE similar to Visual Studio.
Any helps or hints would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Winelib should let you compile Win32 code under Linux with only a few modifications.
Since your code base is in C, I'd suggest using GTK+. It's a cross platform GUI toolkit. For instance, Pidgin instant messenger GUI is created with GTK+. Glade user interface designer can be used to graphically design UIs.
If you're on a tight budget, and don't mind taking time to work around a fair number of limitations, Winlib is an option. If you're shorter on time, and have a larger budget, you might want to look into Mainsoft instead. It's not exactly perfect, but I believe it supports a considerably larger part of the Win32 API (at a correspondingly higher price).
Our company has a handful of Mac users. I recently built a Winform application and now my main user is using a Mac. Is it possible to run this application on a Mac? What would have to be done to convert it? If it is too much, I may just rebuild it is asp.net as a web application.
Thanks in advance!
JCC
Maybe. Many .Net programs can be compiled with mono as well, winforms usually is not a problem, but some libraries (e. g. MS Office libraries for editing Excel files). I am not sure about VB, as mono coders mostly use C#, but you can analyse your code with the Mono Migration Analyzer for portability to mono.
Depending a bit on features and controls used, it may run on Mono. Since you can run Mono on Windows as well it's rather easy to download and test it.
Your basic options are (from least intrusive to most intrusive, from the point of view of a Mac user):
Convert it to a web app.
Run it on a Terminal Server and have them use Remote Desktop.
Run the application in a virtual machine (VMWare or Parallels) that is running Windows.
Try to get it running under Mono.
If there isn’t a strong reason for it to be a desktop application, you really should be thinking in terms of web apps for new applications—at least, that’s an unwritten rule where I work.
First I've read loads of posts and sites that recommend going to http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/ to get started but I do not have visual studio and I'm not going to purchase it just to 'maybe' learn some silverlight that I'm not going to be able to use for a little while.
The reason being that I've already installed visual studio and all the other things required during a quiet period of work, then another project came up and by the time I got back to thinking about silverlight the trial period has finished.
I have not done C# or XAML (mainly Java, AS3 & MXML, hence the lack of MS tools) but I'd like to look into silverlight when I'm quiet to create some test projects and to determine where I can use it if anywhere. Is there a toolset that will let me learn and use all that is required without purchasing the software (perhaps it would have a watermark like the flex datacharts used to have, unless you purchased them, maybe an eclipse plugin - although I imagine I'm being a bit optimistic here).
If there isn't such a thing then perhaps MS should look into this, Adobe recently let anyone unemployed/students etc to get flexbuilder for free to increase its uptake. That would be great is MS did something similar.
If you are a student, you can get professional Microsoft tools for free through the Dreamspark program. http://www.dreamspark.com
You can download Blend preview 3 and visual studio 2010 for free and use it. You have the tools and knowledge now ;-)
Check out Bizspark too.
Allegedly, you can now use one of Microsoft's free "Express" development systems to develop Silverlight apps.
http://www.bluerosegames.com/SilverlightBrassTacks/post/You-can-now-write-Silverlight-apps-in-Visual-Web-Developer-Express.aspx
In addition to the free-as-in-free-beer options from MS that other answers mention: if you only want to play around with Silverlight for now, consider trying Moonlight -- it may not yet be ready for production work, but nevertheless usable for learning purposes.
One place you can go is to the express web site on Microsoft.com. You can get free, albeit trimmed back, versions of the current release of Visual Studio and SQL Server there.
You can also get a trial version of Expression Blend 2. Blend is a design oriented tool for creating Silverlight applications.
You can also usually find betas of upcoming releases without much trouble.
Silverlight + Eclipse:
http://www.eclipse4sl.org/download/
And how to workaround Express for SL
http://www.informikon.com/blog/howto-silverlight-and-visual-studio-express.html
Good luck
Braulio