Connectiong Pocket PC to a GPS

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.pocketpc (More info?)

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:54:27 GMT, "graham paul via
PocketPCJunkies.com" <forum@PocketPCJunkies.com> wrote:

>I want to connect a pocket pc to a GPS unit and to be able to manipulate
>the data. I currently am using a Compaq IPaq 3900, but would like to be
>able to use the software on more recent pocket PCs. I am familiar with
>using VB6, but have no experience with C++. I have read that embedded Vb is
>no longer supported and is not suitable for later version of windows ce. I
>would like to know the pros and cons of using VB or C++ and where I can
>find sample code etc. Where can I download embedded VB?

So what do your questions have to do with connecting a pocket PC to a
GPS device?

Sample code is in the MS SDK (you'll need Visual Studio 2003 or
newer). You can download the SDK and the EMbeded VB runtime from MS.
EMbeded VB still works on Windows Mobile 2003 SE, but the runtime dll
wasn't shipped with Windows Mobile 2003 the same as it was for Windows
Mobile 2002.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility [...] s/evb.aspx

If you read that page, embeded visual basic is being phased out, but
..NET visual basic isn't. Still, C++ is always better than VB as it's a
higher level language.

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Mark A.

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.pocketpc (More info?)

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:25:13 GMT, "graham paul via
PocketPCJunkies.com" <forum@PocketPCJunkies.com> wrote:

>I know very little about pocket PCs. I assume that the connector is a
>serial port, and I need to use something equivalent to MSCOMM in Visual
>Basic or C++ to read the data output from the GPS?
>I do have .NET installed but have not used it very much as I find it quite
>difficult after using VB. Are you saying that .NET can be used to write
>programs for pocket PCs. How does it compare with using embedded VB or
>embedded C++ or is it the same thing?
>You mention that the runtime dll was not shipped with windows mobile 2003,
>can it be dowloaded and used with later versions of windows?
>Thanks

Maybe you missed the link I posted?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility [...] s/evb.aspx

That will answer all your questions and you can find the download
there.

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Mark A.

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.pocketpc (More info?)

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:10:00 -0500, "xTenn"
<xTennREmoveThisPart@tds.net> wrote:

>
>"Mark A." <-mark@-spamstopshere.com-> wrote in message
>news:s1mk31tthnin3hd9j0l5k1ogp39fh72rfm@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:54:27 GMT, "graham paul via
>> PocketPCJunkies.com" <forum@PocketPCJunkies.com> wrote:
>>
>
>>Still, C++ is always better than VB as it's a
>> higher level language.
>>
>
>Agree that it is better, but because it is a lower level language, not
>higher. That is, it can talk to some hardware, etc. that VB can't touch
>without a DLL, etc, which would have to be written in another language (C++,
>of course).
>
>C# is high level, as is the contrived f# (Yeah, c# is contrived as well, but
>I digress). But I could not call C++ a high level language, despite having
>a lot of installations that never go beyond a lot of encapsulated classes.
>
>.02, FWIW
>
>

You're right. Even though I meant Visual C++ which is a pretty high
level language, that's not its benefit like you said, it's that it
compiles cleaner executables.

My brother, the developer, pointed the same thing out to me.

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Mark A.