Hi,

I'll be starting on a hobby-project for a Windows Mobile 6 phone soon,
which will be for the largest part a standalone application. I'm
coming from a C# regular .NET 2 background. What I'm looking for is
info on the following:

- In general: which (system-)libraries are available?
- Specific: XML processing availability (System.xml?)?
- Specific: Regex processing availability
(System.Text.RegularExpressions?)?
- Specific: What 'Forms' stuff is avalable (System.Windows.Forms?)?

The reason I'm asking this here is two fold, on which maybe someone
could comment:

1. Most books seem to be about CF 1.1 and about 4 years old. The book
I end up at with searches is mostly this one:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/compactframeworkpg/

2. Searching the web doesn't help me much:
http://www.google.com/search?q=.NET+...k+fundamentals

Any tips on books, links, tutorials are most welcome.

Regards,
Jeroen

The most up-to-date book for Windows Mobile development would be the Mobile
Development Handbook from Microsoft Press as this covers .NETCF v2.0 (With a
little v3.5) and Windows Mobile 5.0/6 development:-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0...SIN=0735623589

(I may be somewhat biased because I am one of the authors though...)

Peter

--
Peter Foot
Microsoft Device Application Development MVP
www.peterfoot.net | www.inthehand.com
In The Hand Ltd - .NET Solutions for Mobility

"Jeroen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:c26a13f0-f79a-45cf-be14-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> I'll be starting on a hobby-project for a Windows Mobile 6 phone soon,
> which will be for the largest part a standalone application. I'm
> coming from a C# regular .NET 2 background. What I'm looking for is
> info on the following:
>
> - In general: which (system-)libraries are available?
> - Specific: XML processing availability (System.xml?)?
> - Specific: Regex processing availability
> (System.Text.RegularExpressions?)?
> - Specific: What 'Forms' stuff is avalable (System.Windows.Forms?)?
>
> The reason I'm asking this here is two fold, on which maybe someone
> could comment:
>
> 1. Most books seem to be about CF 1.1 and about 4 years old. The book
> I end up at with searches is mostly this one:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/compactframeworkpg/
>
> 2. Searching the web doesn't help me much:
> http://www.google.com/search?q=.NET+...k+fundamentals
>
> Any tips on books, links, tutorials are most welcome.
>
> Regards,
> Jeroen

> - In general: which (system-)libraries are available?

The list is long - the CF is a subset of the FFX. I don't know of a
definitive device-only list.

> - Specific: XML processing availability (System.xml?)?

It's there, but it's a subset.

> - Specific: Regex processing availability
> (System.Text.RegularExpressions?)?

It's there, but again, likely a subset (never used the desktop version so I
don't know how much might be missing).

> - Specific: What 'Forms' stuff is avalable (System.Windows.Forms?)?

Again, the list would be long. Look in MSDN or use Reflector.

> The reason I'm asking this here is two fold, on which maybe someone
> could comment:
>
> 1. Most books seem to be about CF 1.1 and about 4 years old. The book
> I end up at with searches is mostly this one:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/compactframeworkpg/

MS Press has a CF 2.0 book out by Wiggley, Foot and Moth that is very good.
The older CF 1.0 (there is no CF 1.1) books are still mostly relevent
though.

> 2. Searching the web doesn't help me much:
> http://www.google.com/search?q=.NET+...k+fundamentals

Search for "tutorials" and "samples" as well.


--

Chris Tacke, eMVP
Join the Embedded Developer Community
http://community.opennetcf.com

Thanks, that answers my questions!

Regards,
Jeroen