Reflections on having multiple versions of NetCF on your device

.NET Compact Framework Team — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 03:08:35 GMT

Andrew Arnott discusses which versions of the .NET Compact Framework can be side-by-side installed, and

re: Reflections on having multiple versions of NetCF on your device

Avnsh — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:50:29 GMT

I have the Microsoft Emulator for WM 6.1. But for some reason it comes with CF Version 2.0 SP2 installed in the ROM. I want to test my application on a fresh phone with WM 6.1 and CF 3.5 installed in the ROM. I did try to install the CF 3.5 on the Emulator, and all works fine, but as a true test I want to remove the CF 2.0 version from the ROM and replace the 3.5 version in ROM. Is that doable?

re: Reflections on having multiple versions of NetCF on your device

Francois Jean — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:08:33 GMT

Thank you for the article it is very helpful.

I have the following question about the version number:

I checked which version of .NET CF was installed on my PDA by looking at the registry key and I found this:

1.0.4292.0 (1)

1.0.4292.00 (0)

3.5.7283.00 (0)

My interpretation:

CF 1.0 SP 3 is installed in ROM and in RAM (maybe the RAM version is faster and it’s why they installed it).

Why the last number is sometimes “.0” or “.00”? Is there any difference between version “1.0.4292.0” and “1.0.4292.00”?