BEGIN expected in dialog
When you have a resource file used by both a Win32 project and a WinCE project, and if you edit the resource file using the Win32 resource editor in Visual Studio, you will get errors like this when the WinCE resource compiler tries to compile it:
.\Resource.rc(112) : error RC2112 : BEGIN expected in dialog .\Resource.rc(112) : error RC2135 : file not found: 0x1 .\Resource.rc(114) : error RC2135 : file not found: ... .\Resource.rc(116) : error RC2135 : file not found: PUSHBUTTON .\Resource.rc(119) : error RC2135 : file not found: CONTROLThe error occurs on a "FONT" line like this:
... STYLE DS_SETFONT | DS_FIXEDSYS | WS_CHILD | WS_CLIPSIBLINGS | WS_CLIPCHILDREN FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg", 0, 0, 0x1 BEGIN ...To fix the error, simply remove the last three parameters:
... STYLE DS_SETFONT | DS_FIXEDSYS | WS_CHILD | WS_CLIPSIBLINGS | WS_CLIPCHILDREN FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg" BEGIN ...Fixed!