.NET Compact Framework 2.0 Preview

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http://www.ftponline.com/reports/vslivesf/2004/yuan1/

"A key crucial feature for all mobile development platforms is the
need for tight device integration. The software platform needs to
leverage all functionalities provided by the underlying device and
network. In the .NET Compact Framework 1.0, access to telephony and a
native Personal Information Management (PIM) database is available
only through native method call wrappers using Platform Invoke
(P/Invoke). Version 2.0 will support standard managed APIs for all
Pocket Outlook clients, including e-mail/SMS, contacts, calendar, and
to-do lists. You can also make phone calls and access call logs
directly from the managed code. Plus, Microsoft has planned a new
location API for both GPS and operator-based location retrieval."

Is this true, anyone test it? Does this mean we have native support
for POOM? Have anyone test it?

 

[Robert Levy [MS]]

The features mentioned (managed access to telephony, PIM, messaging, ...)
are things that we are working on for the next generation of Windows Mobile
but are not part of the .NET Compact Framework.

See http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2004/07/05/173340.aspx for
my clarification of this on our team blog.

-Robert Levy
Program Manager
Mobile Devices Product Group

 

[Lloyd Dupont]

and I also heard about a Camera class, what about it ?

 

[Neil Cowburn [MVP]]

Only in Windows Mobile Next Gen, not in the .NET Compact Framework (which
makes sense if ya think about it).

--Neil

 

[Mark Dykun]

Does this not go against the paragraph that reads ..

Version 2.0 will support standard managed APIs for all
Pocket Outlook clients, including e-mail/SMS, contacts, calendar, and
to-do lists. You can also make phone calls and access call logs
directly from the managed code. Plus, Microsoft has planned a new
location API for both GPS and operator-based location retrieval."

So as I read it here only devices that can support the next OS will get this
functionality?

Mark

 

[Ginny Caughey [MVP]]

Mark,

CFv2 will support COM, so you may be able to access POOM using that
approach. The next version of Windows Mobile will have extra "hooks" that
make a lot of things we want to do easier though.

--
Ginny Caughey
..Net Compact Framework MVP