If you are using XP and the Embedded Visual tools from Microsoft do NOT
install service pack 2 to XP. It kills the emulation environment! A known
fault but without resolution at this point.

Ian


"Marc Ramsey" wrote in message
m...
Mark Zivley wrote:
Any recommendations out there for an inexpensive (under $200??)
development tool set w/ emulator for XP that I can use to develop these
sort of apps? I figure visual basic is probably the most likely
candidate, but since my last significant programming efforts were in
Fortran or Basic, I'm probably going to have to do some catch-up no
matter which language I go with.

Many of the Microsoft development tools for Win CE (including Visual Basic
and C++) are, strangely enough, free for downloading from:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/d...e/default.aspx

A worthy alternative for quick and dirty development is the Python
language, of which there are two free implementations for Win CE:

http://fore.validus.com/~kashtan/
http://www.murkworks.com/Research/Python/Overview

Marc