Comments on: Free Windows Mobile Development Tools?

By: john

john — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:05:17 +0000

Is there any update on this topic?

There are really a lot of interested developer for pocket pc if not because of expensive tools that stops them from doing so.

I hope we could find some free or inexpensive alternative just to kick-start the development.

By: Joel Ivory Johnson

Joel Ivory Johnson — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:27:01 +0000

“Windows Mobile Development Without Visual Studio”

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/mobile/WiMoSansVS.aspx

By: pivique

pivique — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:08:52 +0000

The question ist simple: Just compile your application from command line it´s
simple and effective. With a very few batch files you can build your application and transfer ist to your device. If you want to get an sample-application (all in C#) with batch-files, just send me a short mail to
info@pivique.com.

By: Lou

Lou — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:01:19 +0000

Here is a more up to date link on compiling CF apps without VS.
http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2006/11/23/net-cf-without-visual-studio.html

By: Erel

Erel — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:30:23 +0000

You can also try our development environment - Basic4ppc. It is a simple yet powerful development environment which targets Windows Mobile devices and windows desktops. Basic4ppc programming language is similar to Visual Basic.

By: Christopher Fairbairn

Christopher Fairbairn — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:15:55 +0000

Thanks Jeremy for attending our initial Christchurch Embedded .NET User Group event last night. I've talked about the SPARK program briefly in one of my newer blog posts. The bundle includes Visual Studio 2005 because at this stage this is the only version that is compatible with the plugin (Platform Builder) used to build Windows Embedded CE 6.0 based devices. There are a number of extensions and plugins for Visual Studio which currently don't support VS2008. For example at present .NET Micro Framework development also requires VS2005 for a similiar reason. Rather than retro fitting VS2008 support into existing versions of the tools, it appears most development teams within Microsoft have decided to make the switch as part of their normal development cycles for future versions of their respective products.

By: Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:52:43 +0000

Great to hear at last nights inaugural Christchurch EmbeddedDNUG that it is going to be possible to get Visual Studio 2005 Pro free-for-non-commercial with the purchase of certain SPARK Your Imagination boards… good for hobby purposes/learning….
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/embedded/news/pressreleases/spark-release.mspx
(interesting to note that it is 2005 and not 2008…)

By: macfan777

macfan777 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:31:10 +0000

Well, every Mac comes with the complete Xcode development suite (which I am using to make the Mac and iPhone versions of my program). Really no reason Microsoft can’t do the same thing.

I agree, it is a pity. I know many developers would be much more likely to develop for WM if there were more tools readily available. We can always hope…

For now, I guess I’ll just keep waiting for MS to put out a free version of some WM development tools.

By: tamberg

tamberg — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:54:01 +0000

http://www.ward.nu/computer/teletekst/compile.html

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:23:05 +0000

My introduction to programming happened on a ZX Spectrum, which came with a built in BASIC interpreter. Try to find a new operating system that comes with a built in development tool these days! After BASIC I moved on to Turbo Pascal, which had in retrospect a stable full featured IDE courtesy of Borland.

It is a pity that software developers do not really have much choice but to use the Microsoft tools for Windows Mobile application development.

After many battles with the various peculiarities of Pocket PC and Visual Studio (the Windows Forms Designer being a regular culprit), I wonder if the pocket pc development experience would be improved by having a real development alternative from an organization like Borland, or perhaps just a stable set of tools and libraries for developing applications in Python or even the now outdated Pascal…