Last week I gave a talk to the NxtGen User Group Oxford branch, entitled "An Introduction to Windows Mobile Development". During this, I mentioned a whole series of useful web links to resources for anyone wanting to get started with Windows Mobile development. I thought the might be useful to a wider community so I've included them below.
· OpenNetCF Smart Device Framework
This was originally written by a series of Microsoft MVPs to supplement the Compact Framework 1.0 and provides lots of useful additional libraries. Version 1.4 is free and I think also still provides source code. I believe version 2 is now charged for however.
o http://www.opennetcf.org
· Windows Mobile 5 SDKs
o http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=83a52af2-f524-4ec5-9155-717cbe5d25ed&DisplayLang=en
· Windows Mobile 6 SDKs
o http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=06111a3a-a651-4745-88ef-3d48091a390b&DisplayLang=en
· Windows Mobile 6 Localized Emulators
o http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=38c46aa8-1dd7-426f-a913-4f370a65a582&DisplayLang=en
· Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition
o http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=85e0c3ce-3fa1-453a-8ce9-af6ca20946c3&DisplayLang=en
· Microsoft Active Sync 4.5
o http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9e641c34-6f7f-404d-a04b-dc09f8141141&DisplayLang=en
· Windows Mobile Device Center 6 For Windows
o http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=83d513ea-9df9-4920-af33-3a0e2e4e7beb&DisplayLang=en
- Windows Mobile Developer Tools and Resources
o http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/windowsmobile/default.aspx
· Mobile Client Software Factory
o http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480471.aspx
- Windows Mobile Developer Resource Kit
o www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/mobile.mspx
- Mobile Line Of Business Accelerator Solution
o http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=80A5C2C5-4F9B-4C1A-BFF6-2A3C6B68D15B&displaylang=en
- Useful Newsgroups
o microsoft.public.pocketpc.developer
o microsoft.public.smartphone.developer
o microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework
- Useful Microsoft Blogs
o http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile
o http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdteam
o http://blogs.msdn.com/netcfteam
o http://blogs.msnd.com/marcpe
· Security Threat Modelling
o http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/security/Aa570411.aspx