Mark, since you said you want to develop for Aero 1550 you need eVC3
not eVC4 if you go with Microsoft tools. Both of these are free, but
eVC 4 is only useful for PocektPC 2003 and above you can use eVC3 for
PocketPC 2003 and above as well though it depends on the details of
what you are doing, and you may want to use eVC4 to compile the code
for these devices.

Henryk Birecki

Marc Ramsey wrote:

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