Awhile back I decided to begin doing some Windows Mobile development. Overall, it’s been a good experience and the tool support from VS2008 is excellent. The ability to debug your mobile app in a virtual device emulator is extremely helpful to visualize how your app will run on the target device platform.
However, now that I’ve had the chance to begin using the Motorola Droid and seeing their marketplace application, which gives access to scores of free and pay apps, it has convinced me that I need to begin looking at developing for this platform as well. In the short time that I’ve used this new phone, it’s clear that the user experience is far superior to WM6. Not having seen the new Windows Mobile 7 platform more than a couple of screenshots, it does look like it WM7 could be a strong competitor though.
My next posts will be about ramping up and getting started with a basic application for this platform. It should be exciting and hopefully I can help share some of the stumbling blocks that I run across to save you a bit of your own frustration.
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