Windows Mobile 6 - What's in it for developers?
*exhale* phewww, finally. Now that Windows Mobile 6 is announced, we can be more open about it. As you know we've been putting a lot of work to improve a user's experience in the core Windows Mobile OS, but what exactly is available under the hood for developers?
Here's a list of features that we think developers will care about:
- Platform in ROM - saves precious memory and improve performance
- NET CF v2 SP1 in ROM
- SQL Server Compact Edition in ROM
- New APIs
- Windows Ink Services for Pen (WISP) Lite
- New Sound API - Plays MP3s and more
- SDK Tools
- Cellular Emulator
- FakeServer
- FakeGPS
- Hopper
- CabToolSigner
- Security Configuration Manager
- Platform unification investments
- Improve the experience for users who have to deal with a multitude of devices types and capabilities.
Over the course of the next few weeks, developers on our team will be blogging and producing a lot of materials and publishing them online, so make sure you add their blogs onto your RSS reader. You can find most of the blogs URLs from the blog-list on the left nav.
The definitive source for more in-depth information will be delivered at the next Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference in Las Vegas on the 1-3 of May 2007. Don't miss it and register now!.
