Windows Phone Thoughts: Resco DetailView 2.0 Control for .NET CF

Installation
Installing the control is relatively straightforward. Unzipping the downloaded file results in a Microsoft Windows Installer file (detailview.msi) which can then simply be double-clicked to start the install process. By default, the installer creates a sub-folder called Resco DetailView Professional in the Program Files folder where it installs all of the files. It also adds some shortcuts to the Start menu including a shortcut to a readme.txt file which details the proper placement of the library files, just in case something goes wrong with the install process. The readme.txt file also details the proper steps for uninstalling the control, the steps to install the control to the Visual Studio .NET toolbox, and a log of changes made to the control for version 2.0.

My installation went smoothly and was fast except for the integration of the help files into Visual Studio .NET's Help files. A dialog box during the install process warns that this could take some time and to not stop the process once it began. With this warning in mind the 2-3 minutes of waiting while the install appeared to have stopped during the integration time didn't alarm me and I was quickly up and running. The only manual intervention that was required was to add the control to my toolbox. The steps for this are clearly detailed in the ReadMe.txt file and are easily accomplished from with Visual Studio .NET.


Figure 1: The DetailView Control installed in the Toolbox.