Mobile Device developmnet

[vul]

I've got a request from my boss to give some users the ability to connect to
SQL Server database while they are on the road.
I'm VB6 and VB.Net (beginner) developer. Mobile devices were not bought yet.
So it depends on my research what to buy.
I decided to start a simple application in VB 2005. There are 3 options for
Smart Device applications:
Pocket PC 2003,
Smartphone PC 2003,
Windows CE 5.0

There is no Windows Mobile 5.0

I also browsed Internet and some people say that Windows CE 5.0 is
different from Windows Mobile 5.0. There is a suggestion to use Windows
Mobile 5.0 because it fully supports Framework 2.0. But I'm not sure if my
application will work on Windows Mobile 5.0 when I develop and test it on
Pocket 2003 PC Emulator.

Any advice where to start please

Thank you
Al

 

[Charlie Brown]

You can download the SDK can windows mobile 5.0 here

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...f2-f524-4ec5-9155-717cbe5d25ed&DisplayLang=en

And depending on the devices you buy some manufacturers also offer an
SDK as well as emulator images. My preference is for Mobile 5.0 on
PocketPC.

This is an article that discusses connecting to sql from pocket pc that
i find works well.

http://www.codeproject.com/netcf/AdminSQLfromPocketPC.asp

 

[V]

Hi Al,

you may also want to check out the recently released "Mobile Client
Software Factory" at MSDN. Here is the link:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/mcsflp.asp

- Vaibhav

 

[vul]

Thanks a lot guys.

Al