Developing for the Windows 2003 Smartphones.

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Hi to all,

i intend to start developing mobile applications using the compact
framework and i was wondering if someone can help me with the below
questions.
My target devices are mainly the Windows 2003 smartphones and especially
the Orange SPV E200 (Qtec 8080 here in Greece).

a. I already have Visual Studio .net 2003 Developer Edition and i am using
it's
built-in emulator to experiment.
Do i have to download and install the "Microsoft Smartphone 2003 SDK" to
build
apps for the Orange phone or this version of .net that i have already
contains this ?
b. If in the future i want to develop for the 2003 PocketPC (Mobile
edition),
do i have to do the same with the SDK for Windows Mobile 2003-based Pocket
PCs ??

And if the above are true, then the only functionality for vs.net is for
just Pocket PC (older versions)

Thanks a lot for your time,

Anthony Boudouvas

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

Yes you will need to install the Smartphone 2003 SDK to add Smartphone
support to Visual Studio .NET 2003. This will add the emulator, new project
templates and a customised toolbox containing the subset of controls
supported by Smartphone.

For Pocket PC 2003 if your application uses purely managed code they you can
use the built in support and debug on the 2002 emulator shipped with Visual
Studio and then deploy to 2003 devices. If however you want to work with
2003 specific APIs through Platform Invoke then you will need to install the
Pocket PC 2003 SDK, which will give you additional emulators. There are also
emulators available for Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition Pocket Pc and
Smartphone. You'll find links to all the above mentioned packages here:-
http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/downloads/default.aspx

Peter

 

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Many thanks to you Peter, it really helps me a lot!

Thanks again,

Anthonyb