34.1. Getting Started

The first thing you need to do to get started building a device application is to create a smart device project. You can either create this in a new solution or, if you are adding a device component to a larger application, add it to an existing solution. You create a smart device project the same way you would any other project type. You can select the File New Project menu command, or you can select Add New Project from the right-click context menu in the Solution Explorer window. Figure 34-1 shows the New Project dialog with the Visual Basic, Smart Device node expanded. Notice that there is only one installed template, the Smart Device Project.

In previous versions this screen listed the different project types along with the different platform and framework versions. Unfortunately, this list was growing at an alarming rate with each new version of both Windows Mobile and the .NET Compact Framework.

Figure 34.1. Figure 34-1

Selecting the Smart Device Project will invoke the Add New Smart Device Project dialog, shown in Figure 34-2, where you can select the ...

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