Development for Cell Phones

[Guest]

Can I develop cell phone apps with VB .NET?

What would you suggest as a target phone for testing, and would I need any other special equipment?

Are there any good books for developing for this platform?

 

[Dick Grier]

Hi,

Yes, you can use VB .NET for Windows Mobile Edition 2003 or later. You need
Visual Studio 2003 Professional or higher. There are SmartPhone examples
available online, though I don't know of any book that addresses this
specifically. The newsgroup for these things is
microsoft.public.smartphone.developer. You can ask there about specific
hardware.

Dick

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[Carlos J. Quintero [.NET MVP]]

This may seem obvious or not, but apps written in VB.NET using the .NET
Compact Framework, etc. can run only in Microsoft Smartphones (which run a
special Windows Mobile OS), not in any cell phone, since most cell phones
use Java, the J2ME MIDP flavour.

To develop in .NET for any cell phone you need some 3rd party toolkit such
as http://www.appforge.com/

If your goal is to code for Java-enabled phones (the majority today), it
would be better to use the Sun Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) Wireless Toolkit:
http://java.sun.com/products/j2mewtoolkit/

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Carlos J. Quintero

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