Chapter 17. Developing with Windows Mobile

In this chapter:

Pocket Outlook 565

State and Notifications 577

Pictures 580

GPS 582

Configuration 585

Telephony 586

Earlier Versions of Windows Mobile 586

The Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system contains a number of application programming interfaces (APIs) that are exclusive to Windows Mobile–powered devices. Some we have already discussed in previous chapters, for example, Connection Manager in Chapter 9. Windows Mobile 5.0 and later feature a set of managed APIs that can easily be used in both Microsoft .NET Compact Framework version 1.0 and version 2.0 projects. In this chapter, we investigate these managed APIs along with some of the native functionality that you can also use in application development, ...

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