I have recently upgraded my cellphone contract and as such I received a new phone, the HTC Touch, which is really nice btw but more on this in a later post, It is loaded with windows mobile 6.0 Professional, so being a Software Developer by trade I wanted to jump in and get my hands dirty and develop some applications for it.
The windows mobile platform is really neat, with the .Net compact framework there aren’t any strange and obscure methods needed to get your code running on a mobile, just plain old C# well with some limitations, the compact framework as the name suggests is a limited subset of the .Net Framework.
I started with a simple hello world application and it took about 5 minutes to complete and deploy to my touch real easy!
Here’s what I did:
Installing the needed tools
- Get the Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional SDK from Microsoft.
- Get the Microsoft .Net Compact Framework 2.0 sp 2
- Get Active Sync 4.5
- Grab some lunch and wait for everything to download, it is about 500Mb all in all
- Install Everything and get ready to code.
Starting a new Project
- Open up Visual Studio and start a new windows mobile 6 application.
- Then just like any desktop application edit properties and add code, it really is this simple
This was just a brief introduction of how I started a windows mobile application, I am in the process of coding a streaming audio application, more on that later.
For anyone with Symbian OS development (nokia and Sony Ericson) experience you will notice how incredibly easy .Net is compared to Symbian native C++, well at least when I first tried Symbian Dev about 5 years ago. There are some Symbian implementations of the .Net compact framework, Red 5 Labs if I remember correctly, but I haven’t recently checked that out, Note to self, check it out again.
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