re: What tools do I need to develop for Pocket PC and Smartphone?

Peter da Silva — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:53:00 GMT

Back when Microsoft invited us up to redmond for the Pocket PC Wireless and Beyond shindig (what might be called Mobius Zero), I suggested that a killer application for the Pocket PC would be a mini webserver with a basic scripting language you could access through Pocket IE (which for me was the killer app in the Pocket PC: it's a damned good browser given the limitations of the screen) and that provided access to the databases on the machine... as well as your own.

Do that, and all you'd need to develop for the Pocket PC (and, if you did a good enough job at it, the smartphone) would be a Pocket PC. *And* when it was plugged in through Activesync (though by default ONLY when it was connected to an authorised computer, of course!) you could get to the same scripts on the desktop at "http://192.168.55.100/" (if I have the address right).

Scripting is a killer application (look at what people have done with Hypercard and Applescript on the Mac, and with all the little web scripting languages, and with scripts in Excel... Excel is basically 'Perl for Accountants'), and at the moment on the Pocket PC it's all potential.

re: What tools do I need to develop for Pocket PC and Smartphone?

James Pratt [MSFT] — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:59:00 GMT

Also, for a little more detail you should read.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/gettingstarted/windowsmobile/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnppcgen/html/devtoolsmobileapps.asp

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