Building Solutions with the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework: Architecture and Best Practices for Mobile Development

Executive Summary

Although the Compact Framework, coupled with SDP, provides a rich feature set for building applications, not everything you and your team need is included in the box. Developing professional applications also involves creating applications that perform well. As a result, you'll likely need to augment the Compact Framework and employ some techniques for instrumenting and profiling the code your team writes.

The most obvious way to augment the Compact Framework, which is, after all, a 25% subset of the desktop Framework, is to call unmanaged functions either in the Windows CE API or in custom DLLs that you leverage from existing applications. Some of the reasons to use the Windows CE API include checking the platform of the device, ...