Introduction

Welcome to the .NET Compact Framework, the fast, trimmed-down version of the Microsoft .NET Framework tailored especially for devices. The .NET Compact Framework is Microsoft's next-generation development framework for easily creating complex applications for the Pocket PC and Windows CE platforms. Using the .NET Compact Framework, developers can target Windows CE using C# or Visual Basic. For the first time, developers need not become experts in writing for Windows CE in C/C++, nor need they settle for the previous, watered-down Visual Basic dialect, Embedded Visual Basic.

This book will bring you up to speed on how to use Smart Device Extensions in Visual Studio 7.1 to write, deploy, and test applications that target the .NET Compact ...

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