To get started with Smartphone software development, you need to have a set of tools installed on your development computer. These tools form a basic Smartphone application development environment. The development computer must be running Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, or Windows Vista.
Visual Studio 2005
Visual Studio 2005 (code-named Whidbey while in development) is Microsoft’s latest integrated development environment (IDE) for both desktop and device application development. The previous version of Visual Studio, Visual Studio .NET 2003, can also be used for application development targeting Windows Mobile 2003 devices. Both Visual Studio versions enable you to program, debug, test, and deploy an application targeting Windows Mobile devices. If you have don’t the release version of Visual Studio 2005, you can download a trial version from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/. Note that the free Visual Studio Express Edition does not support application development with the .NET Compact Framework for Windows Mobile devices. You need to use Standard Edition, Professional Edition, or Team System for Smartphone application development.
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