Microsoft® .NET Kick Start

Creating Smart Device Applications

One key difference that you should have noticed by now, in your initial understanding about Visual Studio .NET is that it combines the development capabilities of multiple toolsets into a common environment, with common build/project management tools, common debugging tools, and even common design tools. That has been a key philosophy behind Visual Studio .NET. A key feature added into the 2003 version release was the capability to develop mobile applications; specifically, Visual Studio .NET supports development of mobile ASP.NET applications as well as Smart Device applications using .NET Compact Framework. In this section, you take a quick look at some of these capabilities. Mobile application development ...