Development tools for the pocket PC

[howlsta]

Hi,

I've just been asked to find out some info on pocket PC's at work. I'm new to this and don't know anything about them.

I want to know what are the most up to date development tools for the pocket PC such as versions of Visual Studio.net or anything else.

thanks,

Rich

[Cary]

Hey there,

Embedded Visual Studio 3.0 includes eVB (embedded visual basic) and eVC (embedded visual c++). This suite is free for download from Microsoft at:
http://www.microsoft.com/mobile/developer/downloads/default.asp

However, their newest suite is based on the Compact .NET framework and is most definitely not free. The best place to start looking for both of these would be microsoft's mobile site at the link I provided above.

I started developing for these just a couple of months ago, so I'm still relatively new. There might be better stuff out there, but getting embedded Visual Studio for free isn't bad at all! Another resource that's quite good is http://www.devbuzz.com. It's a developer resource site for pocket pc development.

Best of luck!

Cary

[Janak Parekh]

Just to add to Cary's answer - the newest development framework will be Visual Studio .NET 2003 - coming out within a couple of months. It includes the .NET Compact Framework, which includes the new runtime for Pocket PCs to run .NET managed code.

--janak

[howlsta]

Thanks for your help. I'll try the links

cheers,

Rich