Summary
In this chapter, we discuss the new features for device application developers included in Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" and in the new runtime .NET Compact Framework version 3.5. The information presented is based on the beta 1 release of Visual Studio "Orcas," so we can make no guarantee that the features described will be present or will operate in the final released product as described.
.NET Compact Framework 3.5 builds on the feature set of version 2.0 by adding much-requested features from the full .NET Framework 2.0, such as compression and the ability to play sound files. Subsets of exciting technologies available in the full .NET Framework 3.5, such as LINQ and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), will now also be available ...
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