Now you can create an application without the requirement of Visual Studio, which facilitates the setup of the environment and eliminates the need for licensing.
Developing with this feature does not differ that much from the development using visual studio, the main difference lies in how to make the deploy of applications.
Requirements:
- .Net Framework Redistributable Package. Download here.
- . Net Framework Software Development Kit (SDK). Download here.
- . Net Compact Framework SDK. Install from: C: \ Program Files \ Microsoft.Net \ SDK \ v2.0 \ CompactFramework \ netcfsetupv2.msi
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition Device SDK. Download here.
- ActiveSync 4.5. Download here.
- For GeneXus 9.0 .Net Mobile Generator: Upgrade 5. Download Center
Limitations and important considerations:
- The execution of the application must be made manually on the device through the executable
- The emulator list is not available(this is provided by VS), to deploy de application it is necessary to be connected through ActiveSync to the MObile
- Cabs are not created anymore, so files should be copied manually to the device, in order to avoid the copy of all the files after every F5 to the device.
- To deploy the application manually, it is enough to copy the bin folder of the Genexus model to the device, then execute reorg.exe to create the database and finally the exe of the application.