Microsoft® .NET Compact Framework Kick Start

Writing an Application for SmartPhone—XMLDataSetViewer

We'll use a tutorial approach to build a simple XML DataSet viewer. The XML DataSet viewer shows the first table in a DataSet. The tutorial provides developers with an existing SmartPhone project to experiment with. It also demonstrates how the .NET Compact Framework development experience is nearly unchanged when working with SmartPhone.

MANAGING FILES ON THE SMARTPHONE Managing files on the SmartPhone OS can be cumbersome because there is no touch screen or File Explorer program. With physical SmartPhone devices, you at least have the option of accessing the SmartPhone's file system via ActiveSync. But this problem gets especially annoying when working with the emulator, because by default, ...