Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Developing WM 5 Applications Without Visual Studio 2005
Posted by Jon Westfall in "DEVELOPER" @ 12:00 PM
"For most of the life of Windows Mobile, their were two primary development tools, eMbedded Visual C/C++ (eVC) and eMbedded Visual Basic (eVB). With both of these tools being free, a significant number of hobbyist developers began developing Windows Mobile applications. In fact many of the more innovative Windows Mobile applications & utilities have come from people who develop software as a hobby. Back in 2003 when the .NET Compact framework was first released, it was only available as part of a Visual Studio 2003. Not only was VS2003 not free but it was rather expensive. This of course made the .NET Compact framework inaccessible to hobbyist developers. With .NET-related technologies so obviously being the future of Microsoft development, many hobbyists were concerned that they were being left behind. Thankfully, the problem has been corrected."
A nice little write-up on developing for Windows Mobile 5 without using Visual Studio 2005. For those of us without big company support and are moderatly interested in development, this can be a godsend. Happy coding!
A nice little write-up on developing for Windows Mobile 5 without using Visual Studio 2005. For those of us without big company support and are moderatly interested in development, this can be a godsend. Happy coding!
