.NET Mobile Development

.NET Mobile Development Articles from Microsoft - Tampa Web Developer

Dave Hayden — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 13:20:00 GMT

From the Visual Studio for Devices Team Blog - some new mobile development articles from Microsoft:

Northwind Pocket Service: Field Service for Windows Mobile-Based Pocket PC

Learn about enterprise mobile solution business aspects and how to develop mobile enterprise applications for Windows Mobile 2003-based Pocket PCs using Visual Studio .NET, .NET Compact Framework, and the Windows Mobile 2003 SDK. The source code in this white paper implements server components, database, and a Pocket PC client. (58 printed pages)

Northwind Pocket Service: Field Service for Windows Mobile 2003-Based Smartphones

Learn how to develop mobile enterprise applications for Windows Mobile 2003-based Smartphones using Visual Studio .NET, .NET Compact Framework, and the Windows Mobile 2003 SDK. The source code in this article implements server components, database, and a Windows Mobile 2003–based Smartphone client. (38 printed pages)

Games Programming with Cheese: Part One

An introduction to the games program on the Windows Mobile-based Smartphone using the .NET Compact Framework and Visual Studio .NET 2003. There are a number of downloads of the project at different stages of development. (21 printed pages)

Games Programming with Cheese: Part Two

An introduction to games programming on the Smartphone using the .NET Compact Framework and Visual Studio 2003. There are a number of downloads of the project at different stages of development. (26 printed pages)

Windows Mobile Development - PDA Application Development - New HP IPAQs - Sarasota Florida

Dave Hayden — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:05:00 GMT

HP announced the new line of IPAQs that should be hitting store shelves in 3 to 4 weeks. I have been wanting a PDA for quite awhile, but have been holding off on the purchase until HP released some new ones and I had a few extra dollars. I am considering the HP IPAQ hx4705, which is probably way overkill for what I need, but you only live once :)

I was initially looking at the HP IPAQ h6315 Pocket PC with the mobile phone, but you have to use T-Mobile as the service provider and T-Mobile blows in the Sarasota area. Verizon is the best cellular service provider in Sarasota hands down.

I really want to try my hand at Windows Mobile Development because it remains a total mystery to me. I had a potential customer for a mobile development project awhile back that was willing to hire me with no experience because I came highly recommended. Unfortunately, the project never came to fruition and hence I was never able to justify the purchase of a PDA at that time.

I suspect one wouldn't want to bet their career on Windows Mobile Development as I bet the number of projects available for mobile development as compared to browser web development is next to nothing. However, running my own application on a PDA just seems pretty cool to me.

The best place to start learning about all of this is probably the Mobile and Embedded Application Development Center at Microsoft. Read here. In about 4 weeks you can bet I will be talking about my new PDA :)