Goals of the Compact Framework and SDP
As mentioned in the previous section, the release of VS .NET 2003 has served to bring the benefits of XML Web Services and the Framework to smart devices. As a result, the goals of the Compact Framework and SDP can be enumerated as follows:
Portable (and small) subset of the Windows .NET Framework targeting multiple platforms: This includes the creation of a runtime engine, class libraries, and compilers for VB and C# that together are referred to as the .NET Compact Framework. As you'll see in the next section, this framework is not a simple port of the desktop version, but a complete rewrite designed to execute managed code on multiple CPU architectures and operating systems through an abstraction layer ...
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