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eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0 SP4 is now available !

Amit Chopra — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:57:00 GMT

I am pleased to announce that last week our team signed off on the Service Pack 4 (SP4) release of eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0. It is available on the web at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4A4ED1F4-91D3-4DBE-986E-A812984318E5&displaylang=en

The primary reason for this release was to enable development support for Windows CE 5.0 based devices.

Service Pack 4 is a fully cumulative and hence allows a development machine to target all CE platforms since Windows CE 4.0.

Just like SP3, SP4 will install on base eVC 4.0 and/or any exisiting Service Pack of eVC. An online version of the release notes are also published on this site , please review these prior to upgrade.

Amit Chopra

Announcement: eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0 Sp3 is now available for download.

Amit Chopra — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:24:00 GMT

I am pleased to announce that we now have the evC 4.0 SP3 release of eVC 4.0 (ENU) available for download.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5BB36F3E-5B3D-419A-9610-2FE53815AE3B&displaylang=en

The main goal of evC 4.0 SP3 release is to address the issues raised by our customers around not being able to use the remote tools in evC 4.0 SP2 to target Windows 4.0 and 4.1 CE. This was largely due to that fact that evC 4.0 Sp1 and evC 4.0 Sp2 releases were not cumulative in nature and were tied to a specific platform.

However, hearing feedback from our customers on this, we have now released evC 4.0 SP3 which is a cumulative release of evC 4.0 SP1 and evC 4.0 SP2. With our current release we now provided the ability to select the appropriate version of the remote tool from the tools menu and be able to use the right set of tools for the selected platform.

What this will install on ?

evC 4.0 SP3 requires eVC 4.0 to install. It will also install and work as expected if you have either evC 4.0 Sp1 or evC 4.0 Sp2 or both installed. evC 4.0 SP3 also included previously release QFEs for eVC 4.0. No other feature enhancements or changes were made.

Amit Chopra
Program Manager – Visual Studio for Devices Team

Fixing Deleted Menus Items

Amit Chopra — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 17:47:00 GMT

Our team has been busy working on the next service pack for eVC 4.0 - SP3 - which addresses one of highly requested features from our customer to have the ability to use Remote Tools to target multiple versions of the CE Platform. As I was playing around with the Remote Tools menu in eVC 4.0, to verify one of the corner case logic, I ended up deleting all Remote Tools items from the Menus. While the code worked as expected, I realised that there was no restore button for the menu items on the tools menu, so the only option that appeared to use was to restore each one of them individually.

Guess what - a tip from one of my developers came in very handy. This is a registry edit so please ensure you save your registry before making changes and don't do this unless you somehow end up in the same situation as I did.

The suggestion was to remove HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\CEStudio\4.0\evc . This key gets regenerated on the next start of eVC and all Menus are restored when eVC 4.0 is started the next time. I just felt this was a fun tip to share.

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