How to develop mobile applications using Win 98 pc

[maerdyboy]

Hi,

Can anybody help?

I am thinking of buying a pda or pocket pc, manly for the gps and bluetooth functionality.

But like most I am disappointed at the functionality of these mobile
Devices. So I would like to develop my own applications on the mobile
Device.

It seems that I am limited to what I can use to develop applications, as
My home pc is running Windows 98, this I believe is not supported
Buy the sdks for Vb and C# from Microsoft for Windows mobile 2003 SE.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Maerdyboy.

[paulzazzarino]

You should be able to develop apps with the eVB or eVC++ compilers under 98. Both of these toolkits are free. I can not swear by it but it should be possible. eVC++ and eVB work fine under NT or XP.

You can develop C# applications for free using the command line version.
see howto @ http://www.3zwireless.com/dotnet1.html

You can buy Visual Studio Standard IDE for around $100. Unfortunately Standard Edition does not support CE/Mobile.
Google ICSharp for leads on a free IDE (still no CE support)

VS.NET requires a more modern OS like XP as well as newer hardware