Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 still has issue when creating Mobile Controls

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If you are either targeting the Compact Framework version 1 or version 2 or version 3.5, there are still issues with the visual studio designer when creating custom controls.* It is just too damn sensitive and non consistent when rendering controls.

 

Also, the warning messages are not helpful at all.* I do not understand why a control will render one time, and then when you close vs and reopen it the same control will not render.* Controls for winforms are first class citizens in visual studio versus developing controls for mobile platform.

 

Oh, and try and target both types of devices in the same control, good luck, it is a pain. You have no idea the amount of extra coding that has to be done because the designer for mobile controls is not smart enough to know which code is runtime specific and which is not. And make sure if you are targeting different platforms, and you change the target platform, you also need to restart visual studio in order for it to fully take effect.

 

Again, in Visual Studio 2008, just like in 2005, and 2003, Compact Framework custom controls are second class citizens....what give M$.....:@:@:@

 

 

 

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