I wanted to develop a simple sketch program in VB 6, but reading the docs
with the 1.7 sdk I got the impression that I would need to use VB 2005 to
make a robust applicaition.

In the interest of speed, I hired a vb 2005 programmer thru rentacoder to
write me a little application, with the intention of learning vb 2005 as I
fiddled with the source once it was delivered.

I was rather surprised that the resulting program explodes unless you add a
special patch for the net 2.0 framework for the tablet pc. That patch cannot
be applied to XP Pro, and attempting to run the exe under XP pro causes
GPF-type explosions.

(Earlier version of the program worked fine in XP pro, until the programmer
started adding some features.)

It would be nice if the program ran under XP pro with a mouse, with the idea
of encouraging users to get a tablet pc to use the features in depth, but to
do that, it looks like I will have to convert source back to vb6 (If that is
even possible, I haven't begun to look at the source in depth.)

The haphazard patch makes me a little concerned about the Tablet OS, is
Microsoft committed to this OS variation and is there going to be a special
Vista Tablet edition?

We are just getting started learning VB.NET.200- ('The VB-like language') ,
since we can't convert our previous code to it and will only be writing new
systems from scratch.

So far it looks like a whole new set of gotchas on top of a language written
by Oonies (like Moonies but Object Oriented).

Sorry if this sounds like a rant.

In article <374FD53B-BE08-4262-B58F-E42FE86BE6A7@microsoft.com>,
bradjensen@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> It would be nice if the program ran under XP pro with a mouse, with the idea
> of encouraging users to get a tablet pc to use the features in depth, but to
> do that, it looks like I will have to convert source back to vb6 (If that is
> even possible, I haven't begun to look at the source in depth.)

I'm pretty sure you can develop Tablet PC apps on XP by downloading and
installing the Tablet PC SDK.

According to the download page: http://tinyurl.com/cau58

Windows 2000 and XP are listed as supported operating systems.

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Patrick Steele
http://weblogs.asp.net/psteele

"Patrick Steele" wrote:


> I'm pretty sure you can develop Tablet PC apps on XP by downloading and
> installing the Tablet PC SDK.
>
> According to the download page: http://tinyurl.com/cau58
>
> Windows 2000 and XP are listed as supported operating systems.
>
> --
> Patrick Steele

Thanks for responding. Yes, you can download the tablet sdk ( I downloaded
1.7). Yes you can write programs. However if you use certain features, the
program will not run on XP - it bombs on startup - but will run on the tablet
pc. There is a patch for the tablet OS that will only isntall ont he tbalet
os, not on straight XP, and without that patch the program will not run.

So you can 'develop' on XP - write and compile code - but you have to run it
on the tablet.