How to create cross-platform class libraries?

Norbert Unterberg · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 24

We have a C# project for a PDA (Windows Mobile 5.0 Pcoekt PC, using
VS2008) where we create some utiity classes that should be used both for
the PDA and for the "real" Windows XP platform.
Currently, we create a C# smart device class library project. When
building a PC application, we just reference the PDA class library.
Visual studio warns about possible unexpeced results but allows us to do
it, and the resulting application does work.

My questions: What are the risks and the drawbacks? What is the correct
way? We have not found a way to set different target platforms as build
configuration. The only other solution we found is to create a second
project and import the same set of soure files, but there should be a
better way, shouldn't it?

One drawback we found is that VS does not allow to create PC bases unit
tests for the pocket pc class library.

Any ideas and suggestions?
Norbert

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Daniel Moth · Joined: 08 Aug 2007 Posts: 11

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/07/ShareCode/default.aspx

HTH

Cheers
Daniel
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"Norbert Unterberg" wrote in message @TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> We have a C# project for a PDA (Windows Mobile 5.0 Pcoekt PC, using
> VS2008) where we create some utiity classes that should be used both for
> the PDA and for the "real" Windows XP platform.
> Currently, we create a C# smart device class library project. When
> building a PC application, we just reference the PDA class library. Visual
> studio warns about possible unexpeced results but allows us to do it, and
> the resulting application does work.
>
> My questions: What are the risks and the drawbacks? What is the correct
> way? We have not found a way to set different target platforms as build
> configuration. The only other solution we found is to create a second
> project and import the same set of soure files, but there should be a
> better way, shouldn't it?
>
> One drawback we found is that VS does not allow to create PC bases unit
> tests for the pocket pc class library.
>
> Any ideas and suggestions?
> Norbert

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