Guest Ishra Posted April 9, 2003 Report Posted April 9, 2003 Hi all, I know that the source to WinCE is available. Is this true for the Smartphone? I know there will be vendor specific stuff but there must be a core that we can look at? Just wondering.... Maybe then we can see where all these bugs are ;-)
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted April 9, 2003 Report Posted April 9, 2003 Considering the ordeal with Sendo, i doubt it very much...
Guest kingbing Posted April 9, 2003 Report Posted April 9, 2003 Shouldn't it be available with Platform Builder? And if so, how do you get Platform Builder?
Guest Soyale Posted April 9, 2003 Report Posted April 9, 2003 You buy Platform Builder for MS. It's quite expensive IIRC several thousand pounds or more. You'll get the source to the core WinCE OS but you won't get the platform specific extensions like the apps and the Smartphone UI.
Guest yatpeak Posted April 12, 2003 Report Posted April 12, 2003 Several thousand pounds!?! What in God's name would you do with it for it to be worth spending that much? Wyatt
Guest Soyale Posted April 12, 2003 Report Posted April 12, 2003 You use Platform Builder to create the ROM image to go on commercial devices or on custom WinCE devices so in those terms it's probably not too expensive!
Guest fraser Posted April 12, 2003 Report Posted April 12, 2003 Yeah, it's intended for hardware manufacturers, not the likes of us. The Smartphone platform was created by MS from WinCE, so this tool essentially enables the designer of a device to perform the same process themselves. No doubt there is licensing to be paid per-unit as well, on top of the price of the developers kit.
Guest rocknsock2k Posted April 14, 2003 Report Posted April 14, 2003 i won the visual studio.net enterprise architect worth 1700 but what the hell am i to do with it aghhhhhh
Guest smartphone-web.com Posted April 14, 2003 Report Posted April 14, 2003 See the Windows CE .NET Shared Source Premium License Program here: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/shareds...nouncement.mspx
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted April 14, 2003 Report Posted April 14, 2003 i won the visual studio.net enterprise architect worth 1700 but what the hell am i to do with it aghhhhhh Got your price a bit wrong there :lol: unless you go to an aproved reseller :? on the net it's half the price
Guest Firaas Posted April 14, 2003 Report Posted April 14, 2003 Got your price a bit wrong there :lol: unless you go to an aproved reseller :? on the net it's half the price It's £2,000 on Dabs!
Guest vijay555 Posted April 14, 2003 Report Posted April 14, 2003 rocknsock2k, i'd take it off your hands if it's taking up space :lol: you know i'd contribute great things to the Smartphone universe... V
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted April 15, 2003 Report Posted April 15, 2003 It's £2,000 on Dabs! Just checked it's £1800 :shock: guess i won't be shopping at dabs then :lol: Dabs
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