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5.2 Applications in Visual Studio VB .NET and C#.NET
What are Smart Device Extensions?
Smart Device Extensions (SDE) for Microsoft
leverage all of your .NET programming skills to build Microsoft Windows
for smart devices that support the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework. When using
SDE, you can produce applications for Pocket PC and Microsoft Windows CE .NET
platforms using the familiar Microsoft Visual Basic
language with the same tools and class libraries that are used to build .NET
applications for the desktop and for servers. Since these smart devices don't offer all
the features of their larger cousins, the hardest thing to master is learning which parts
of the Microsoft .NET Framework have been modified to align with the reduced
functionality of these more limited portable platforms. Fortunately, the Visual Studio
environment provides full support for this as well as enabling desktop debugging for
applications running on these platforms.
Creating applications using SDE from Visual Basic .NET is so straightforward that
you might be tempted to just jump right in by creating a new SDE project, dropping
some controls on a form, and writing some code. In fact, we're going to do just that in
a moment. But we are also going to step you through the entire development,
debugging, and deployment process and point out exactly where the special nature of
SDE development is different than developing desktop applications. And for those of
you who have a technical interest in how this stuff works, we will explain what's going
on under the hood.
What is C#.NET?
Visual C# (pronounced C sharp) is designed to be a fast and easy way to
create .NET applications, including Web services and ASP.NET Web applications.
Applications written in Visual C# are built on the services of the common language
runtime and take full advantage of the .NET Framework.
C# is a simple, elegant, type-safe, object-oriented language recently developed
by Microsoft for building a wide range of applications. Anyone familiar with C# and
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