Visual Basic Development
To develop Windows CE applications using Visual Basic, you will need the Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 5. Notice that at the moment the toolkit will not run with any other version of Visual Basic. The toolkit provides the Windows CE-specific functionality and the IDE changes needed to create and build Windows CE applications. In terms of the language, Visual Basic for Windows CE is a subset of Visual Basic, Scripting Edition. This means that much of the Visual Basic 5 language is not supported. However, enhancements have been added to the language in Visual Basic 6, but not Visual Basic 5. This chapter is aimed at developers who are already experienced in Visual Basic 5 development and, therefore, this section focuses mainly on the differences and new features of the language and environment.