Developing for the SmartPhone by Using the .NET Compact Framework

To develop for SmartPhone, you must install the SmartPhone support package for Visual Studio, which is available from Microsoft. By default, Smart Device Extensions for Visual Studio lets you create projects for the Pocket PC or the Windows CE platform. By adding the SmartPhone support package, the SmartPhone platform is added as an available project type.

Because the SmartPhone add-on is simply an extension for Smart Device Extensions, you get the same development experience when developing for the SmartPhone platform as when developing for Pocket PC or Windows CE. The major differences are that there are new emulators to deploy to and the controls not supported by the SmartPhone ...

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