POLL: Which Pocket PC Developing method do you use?

[skang902143]

Dear Pocket PC Memebers

Those of you who are currently Microsoft Devlopers you have the above 2 programming language option where in Java you just need to know one programming concept.

I need high feedback on this one please contribute you opinon for my University project:

Can you post a reply to THE ABOVE POLL

As part of my research I am trying to deduce which .NET language is the mostly used in developing Pocket PC PDA Applications.

I am out to compare it against J2ME against MicroSoft .NET's most popular used devloping Architecture

[Kowalski]

c# makes programming fun for sure but when it comes to windows mobile programming, c# has a great number of shortcommings.
my vote goes to c++ because it is the most powerfull language around

i personaly dont like visual basic and hate programs written in basic. they are slow, always dependent on runtime modules. please nobody feel offended but in my opinion no sharp programmer uses visual basic

there is no particular reason about this but i dont like java eighter.

[tal]

As part of my research I am trying to deduce which .NET language is the mostly used in developing Pocket PC PDA Applications.
I didn't vote since C# is missing as an option. If you want a poll about .NET languages you should really add C# since this is the way to go on PPC (besides of course embedded VC++). C++ isn't a .NET-language on PPC (yet) and the old VB will not be supported on future PPCs.

If that option would be available I would vote for "C# and/or eVC++" since which language to use depends on the kind of project.

If I would use JAVA on PPC I wouldn't use J2ME because it is so limited (especially UI-design). In my opinion J2ME is designed mainly for more limited devices like mobile phones. There are other Java VMs available for PPC with a featureset that comes closer to .NET CF but unless you really need java compatibility I don't think it is good idea to prefer Java over .net on a PPC.

Thorsten

[rocky_raher]

Until recently, most of my PPC development was in embedded C++ and Forward Pass's Visual Basic. I just started a large project using .NET Studio, programming in C#. At the moment, I still prefer C++ to C#. I suspect that, once I'm comfortable with some of C#'s features, I'll prefer it. I'm learning C# because that seems to be what Microsoft will support in the near term.

[Wiggster]

Another vote for C# here. I learned it just for writing on the PDA, and it seems rather intuitive after so much C++.

[ppcinfo]

I use straight C (Win32) for my applications. No MFC or .NET programming.

ppcinfo

[sesummers]

I use Forward Pass with JScript.

I've only written a few apps for my PPC, and the thought of spending big bucks on Visual Studio and learning C# (or C++) or worse, using MS's crappy eVB and wasting time learning how to work around all of its deficiencies (only to have it become obsolete on my next Pocket PC) makes me gag.

I find Forward Pass with JScript "just right". It's powerful enough for all the kinds of things I want to be able to do (including using ActiveX components like ADOCE), and simple enough that it's fun rather than an extension of my day-job. I'm primarily a Delphi programmer, but I find JScript pretty natural. The fact that it's object oriented, and the Array class is really a flexible container class similar to Delphi's TList and TStringList classes, make it easy to port approaches I'd use in Delphi to the JScript language.

I also find that MS's documentation on JScript is very good, and FP's documentation of its controls is very good, and both are in CHM files, so they're readable on my PPC. I don't often work on my apps on the PocketPC, but it's nice to have the docs with me when I'm experimenting with ways to do things.

Unfortunately, it's a dead product, and there's nothing else remotely like it. (Yes, I know about NSBasic. I have it, and I've tried several times to like it, but its lousy documentation and bug-ridden IDE make it almost as un-fun as eVB.)

[Phillip Dyson]

I notice someone selected J2ME. I was wondering if that person would mind elaborating.

I'm trying to determine what avenue I want to take as a developer. Java is my experience at the moment.

[epastorejr]

...for sure. Easy, extensible, quick.