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Windows CE .NET Application Development: What Are My Options?

  • no.1533
  • 2003-04-01
February 7, 2003 MSDN *Article Mike Hall/Microsoft Corporation Steve Maillet/Entelechy Consulting We've just completed the Microsoft?Windows?Embedded Developers Conferences in Taiwan and South Korea (Japan and China are coming in February, and Europe in March). Whilst waiting for a meal with other speakers in the Outback Steakhouse close to our hotel in Seoul, I heard someone talking about "A conversation with the server" and the first image that came to mind was that of a large, multi-processor computer using speech recognition and text-to-speech. (Very cool, me thinks.) I discovered moments later that the server in question was actually waiting on our table. What's troubling about this was that a number of other speakers there were thinking exactly the same thing. I guess that's what happens when you get a bunch of jet-lagged Windows Embedded developers/speakers together in a restaurant. With the recent release to the Web of the final bits for Microsoft Windows CE .NET 4.1, now would be an excellent time to examine the options available to application developers targeting Windows CE .NET devices. For more information...