PBScripts and How to Launch the Wizard

From the menu, Tools—>Platform Builder—>PBScripts you can create and run PBScripts

Figure 25.4: PBScripts Menu

• Show Scripts just opens a PBScript log window and gives an indication when scripts are running.
• Configure Scripts is where you edit and select scripts. You can run them from there.
• Run Active Script reruns the last script that was run

These scripts are simply text files and are stored in:
Documents\PBScripts as .pbscript files:

Figure 25.5: PBScripts folder

You can edit the scripts from here using notepad, or even create new ones. You would normally create the scripts from Configure Scripts:

Figure 25.6: The Configure Scripts Dialog-1

The drop down list at the top allows you to choose which script to run or edit.

Figure 25.7: Configure Scripts Dialog-2

Here the CEComponentWiz script has been selected. This script is installed as part of the CEComponnetWiz installation. It is simply a text file:

VSVersion = 9.0


Name=CEComponentWiz


RunPBCmd("C:\Program Files (x86)\Embedded101\CEComponentWiz\CEComponentWiz.exe")

Listing 25.1 CEComponentWiz PBScript

To launch CEComponentWiz from Visual Studio 2012, you select it as above and run it here.

Once selected you can rerun it again from Run Active Script.

A further example of a PBScript, as follows is to run CerdispHost fro Compact 7 Platform Builder (Visual Studio). Note that this remote display component is not in the Compact 2013 Catlog but there is as an envisaged third party project to recreate it.

VSVersion=9.0
Name=CERDISPHost
RunCmd("e:\wince700\public\common\oak\bin\i386\cerhost.exe -c")

NEXT: 25.5 Running CEComponentWiz

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