Hello,
What i want is to develop an application for my Asus A696 PDA, for controlling my home cinema through IrDA. I have a few devices like Dreambox DM800, WDTV, Loewe A42 and also a Samsung HT TZ225.
I am new to the mobile development scene and obviously i am trying to find my way around. For a start, what should i use to develop my application? Java or Windows Mobile development IDE?
I wouldn't mind if you posted some good tutorials too
Thank you
Anybody anything?
Search the forums, there are plenty of answers already.
Look at the Wiki. There is a whole page with all sorts of information on programming.
I also have some information on my web page.
on my dreambox for some reason the user or password has been changed from default and i cant figure it out.
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Hi,
I have a fair background in various coding languages, and there are a couple of programs I want to try and build.
However, while I can usually pick up and understand a language quite easily the problem I usually find is a lack of knowledge of the objects available to make life easier and the functions which are available.
So far, I've sat around and got a setup which I think should allow me to write and compile WM5 applications and today plugins, but I have suddenly found I am missing that "thing" that made writing in other languages easier - effectively a "Cheat Sheet".
What I would appreciate from the other coders with experience in writing software for WM5 is a list of what windows or books you have open for reference when coding. Is it just MSDN, is there a specific page that you have bookmarked or do you just google for it every time?
Any further advice (like good compilers I might have missed) will also be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
I'd like to hear from others too about this..
So far, My buddies for development help have been:
1. Search in MSDN
2. Search in Google
3. Ask on xda-developers
4. Search in MSDN forums and usenet groups for pocket pc developers
5. A book (that i dont refer to too often) whose name goes smthing like "Programming for Microsoft Windows CE .net" by Douglas Boling (Its not for .net development, it covers native development mostly. Windows CE .Net refers to a version of CE)
6. I also have another book that i have not even opened till now. It is solely for .net development (which is not my forte). Its by Wrox Publishers. If I remember the name correctly, it goes smthing like "Professional Microsoft Smartphone Programming"
There is an exellent documentation on .NET & Native Code on MSDN.
Then there are samples as well, again on MSDN.
For a today plugin, there is a very good sample by levenum which u can easily find in this section of the forum.
For me its always been google & this forum, no boooooks !!!
or
www.codeguru.com
in most cases programming for pocketpc's is like programming for pc's
Thanks for the replies guys. I see what you mean, MSDN is rather good. I was beginning to think it was just WM6, but I eventually found the section on WM5 (which I am planning on coding for given my phone is WM5). Their Wiki also had some good info on it too. Don't know whether these will be my coding buddies yet though....
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I'm glad someone else is interested. TBH I am surprised there is not a sticky at the top of the forum with this information in or a link to the Wiki for further details, but I could only find details of Development Tools on the wiki.
shaileshashar said:
For a today plugin, there is a very good sample by levenum which u can easily find in this section of the forum.
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Thanks for this pointer. I found two (here and here) which look promising. Don't know if there are any I missed....
Just a small tip when searching in MSDN... add ce in the search pharse. For e.g., "ce WM_TIMER" will give you the CE related sessions at the top.
I like www.pocketpcdn.com - articles and code examples for Pocket PC and Smartphones arranged by categories.
Also www.codeproject.com has been helpfull at times.
Hello everybody. I am a programmer experienced in various languages. I want to create a very simple today-plugin, a launcher. It should be touch-responsive, to gestures to be more accurate. Target platform is Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro. I don't want to use wrappers and user-made frameworks and stuff for this, I want to write a professional app. .NET Framework is okay but I don't want to use technologies that are not made by Microsoft. Period. Okay now what I need to know is how do I do this? First I need to know which apps to get. I suppose I will need Visual Studio? Which Version? I'm downloading "Windows Mobile 6 SDK Refresh Kit" at this time. How do I proceed? Is there any sample code? I'm not looking for a huge file. I would like a quick success. Maybe I'll go into some more detail: Basically I want a fully transparent plugin, 480 x 480 px. Users should be able to move their finger from the center in 8 directions and the plugin will then launch the program associated with that direction. That's it. I hope you can help me with this. By the way, I have used the search function and I have found some threads and followed most links I encountered but it's not up to date or not what I want, so frogive me for posting another thread.
hi,
First of all, you can't use .NET Compact Framework for Today Plugin development. It has to be C++ native code AFAIK because it's a .dll - you can't have managed code DLLs.
You need Visual Studio with Smart Device Project support. I'm using VS 2008 Professional, because that's the only version that has it. Standard, Express etc doesn't have that.
You'll need that WM 6 SDK you're already downloading.
Visual Studio has a very nice Device Emulator if you don't have a device to use, but you need to download device emulator images with windows mobile 6. It's somewhere on MSDN in separate package.
I don't have any experience in today plugin development, but I'm sure you'll find a lot of resources and articles about it on:
- http://msdn.microsoft.com
- http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/smartdevicedevelopment
- http://codeproject.com
You could start off by reading the sticky!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=445396
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You could start off by reading the sticky!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=445396
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I DID see this thread, but I don't want to search download install and configure 20 apps out of which I only need 2 for my purpose. Thanks to grzegorzaksamit for the information. I will organize VS 2008 then. Any other help regarding the actual development is highly appreciated!
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I DID see this thread, but I don't want to search download install and configure 20 apps out of which I only need 2 for my purpose. Thanks to grzegorzaksamit for the information. I will organize VS 2008 then. Any other help regarding the actual development is highly appreciated!
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There is an example in either the WM5 or WM6 SDK.
Hi all,
Anyone know of a forum where I can learn how to develop apps for personal use
for my HD2 using vb.net and Visual Studio Pro 2008?
As far as I understand my HD2 won't run windows phone 7.
And only windows mobile 6.5 and before etc.
I'm hoping to find more than the beginners guide to "Hello World".
VS2008Pro is a bit flaky and crashes when I run the app from the development environment and then attempt to move a control in the development environment.
And I can't find how to force my personal app into landscape only. etc.
I've been looking thru all kinds of sites and searches and code for the last couple of weeks. So I know pretty much what I want and can't find.
I've spent a day or two on C#.net(?) code trying to convert some to vb.net
Just torture.
Even some vb.net code examples won't run and I think some well intended C .net developers are forcing VB.net to do c .net coding.
Which is hard enough as it is.
I'd sincerely appreciate any positive constructive suggestions.
Keeping my fingers crossed trying to find like minded vb.net 2008 pro developers.
Thanks and all my best to everyone.
I think I want to try to make a mobile game.
I made a browser game a while ago for a collage class that was very similar to kingdom of loathing. I want to port this to more of a "web app" style to be multi platform for mobile phones.
I'm not asking questions on coding specific questions, though I do need to know, other then the web development code (html, php, database(sql, mysql), javascript that I either know or have enough basic knowledge and reference material to make good use of, what other languages should I know.
So thats question one, will I really need to delve down into java to be able to make a web app game for android (iphone, winmo, etc maybe)
Secondly, when writing, should I get a browser version of the game working first, and then port it, or should I start mobile from the ground up?
If I posted this in the wrong section or If I'm completely in the wrong frame of mind here let me know.
Your question is not very clear. Are you planning to make a web app or an android app? Because they are two different things for me.
Sorry about that
I guess both, A game that you can play from a web browser but also android... Though I've started to actually answer my own question...
And an example of a similar concept is with facebook.
There is facebook for web browser, but there is also a mobile app.
What I need to do is develop an API for the game and be able to show it on both.
hmm. actually facebook is an application not a game so this is not related with your concept but you can make a game application and create a web based game istatistic page.
or you can create android game and create a web page which include episode tricks or riddles. when you get true answers from user then you can switch him/ her to new episode. etc.
i just want to give you an idea in order to use them together.
Hey all.
I did some searching and came out empty.
I want to make my own .cab app. I know C and C++
What SDK do I need? Do they offer GUI SDK or just CLI SDK?
Thank you.
You'll need the Windows Mobile SDK, which is easily available via a google search. The standard Windows GUI is then available in whatever version of .Net you're using to develop with.
Obviously I don't know what kind of development you've done before now, so I don't know if you've done any .Net development or have any experience with OO programming. It may be simple enough for you to move to C#, and if you can then I'd recommend that.
There's also a couple of presentation GUIs available in the Windows software development forum (not in the phone specific areas of the forums). Here's one I've used before and found it to be very nice...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=648906
Good luck mate.
Development tools
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