1. NET Compact Framework for Mobile Developers
Marcus Perryman

2. Agenda Orientation Mobile Platform .NET Compact Framework
Windows Mobile Roadmap

3. Smart device projects
Visual Studio .NET 2003 includes tight integration for mobile developers

4. Smart Personal Objects
Mobility platforms
Pocket PC Phone
Information consumption
View and enter data
Integrated with phone
Interoperability with Office, Exchange and SQL Server
.NET Compact Framework
ASP.NET mobile controls
Smartphone
Information consumption
Primarily data viewing
Integrated phone with PDA
Interoperability with Exchange
.NET Compact Framework
ASP.NET mobile controls
Tablet PC
Complex document authoring, editing and active reading
Note taking and ink annotating
Keyboard centric at the desk, pen & keyboard away from the desk
Keyboard, mouse plus pen, ink, and speech input methods
Full .NET framework preinstalled
Smart Personal Objects
One-way network
Information consumption
Notebook PC
Complex document authoring, editing and reading
Keyboard centric at the desk
Keyboard and mouse input methods
Full .NET framework available
Windows CE
Windows CE + Windows Mobile
Windows XP

5. Pocket PC devices Typical specifications: Processor 300MHz – 624MHz
RAM 32Mb – 128Mb
Up to 4.8Gb via CompactFlash
Up to 1.0Gb via SD
PDA form factor
RAM based storage
Touch screen with stylus input
.NET Compact Framework in ROM
Pocket Office, Internet Explorer and Media Player
Connectivity via Bluetooth, IrDA and WiFi
Phone Edition devices add GSM and GPRS

6. Smartphone devices Typical specifications: Processor 132MHz – 206MHz
RAM 16Mb – 32Mb
Up to 1.0Gb via SD
Phone form factor
Non-volatile flash storage
Rigid screen (keypad input)
.NET Compact Framework in ROM
Pocket Outlook, Internet Explorer, Media Player, SMS and MMS
Connectivity via Bluetooth and IrDA
Tri-band GSM and GPRS

7. Mobile application approaches Microsoft mobile development
ASP.NET Mobile Controls
Mobile Web Pages
Local Code
Mobile Web Browser
.NET Compact Framework and Native APIs
Software Platform (Pocket PC, Smartphone, etc.)

8. Mobile application approaches Microsoft mobile development
Smart Device Programmability
Local Code
Mobile Web Browser
.NET Compact Framework and Native APIs
Software Platform (Pocket PC, Smartphone, etc.)

9. Device emulators
Visual Studio .NET 2003 includes a Pocket PC 2002 emulator as standard
Other emulators are available via SDKs

10. Tools matrix WinCE OS 3.0 4.2 eVC 4.0 (SP2) eVB - VS .NET 2003 .NET CF
Pocket PC 2002
Smartphone 2002
Pocket PC 2003
Smartphone 2003
WinCE OS
3.0
4.2
eVC
4.0 (SP2)
eVB -
VS .NET
2003
.NET CF
1.0
1.0 SP1
MFC X
ATL
eVB (runtime)
X (RAM)
SQL CE
ADO .NET
MSMQ
Web Server

11. Agenda Orientation Mobile Platform .NET Compact Framework
Windows Mobile Roadmap

12. Brief history for Developers
April 00
October 01
October 02
June 2002
January 02
June 00

13. Brief history for Developers
Smartphone
2002
Pocket PC
2002
Pocket PC
April 00
October 01
October 02
June 2002
SP 1
4.1
4.2
January 02
June 00
Win CE 3.0

14. Brief history for Developers
Smartphone
2002
Pocket PC
2003
Smartphone
2003
Pocket PC
2002
Pocket PC
April 00
October 01
October 02
June 2002
SP 1
4.1
4.2
January 02
June 00
Win CE 3.0
Win CE .NET (4.0)

15. Brief history for Developers
Pocket PC
2003
Smartphone
2002
Pocket PC
2002
Pocket PC
Smartphone
2003
April 00
October 01
October 02
June 2002
SP 1
4.1
4.2
January 02
June 00
Win CE 3.0
Win CE .NET (4.0)

16. Windows CE Hard real-time pre-emptive multitasking kernel
Interprocess communication (IPC), sync objects
Memory mapped files, message queues and fibres
Virtual memory with hardware access protection
Installable ISRs, multimedia timers, DMA APIs
More flexibility for drivers and applications
Componentised
Tuneable for resource constrained devices
Specialised through Platform Builder
Pocket PC and Smartphone are specialisations
AutoPC and others…

17. Enhancements since CE 3.0 Security
Trustworthy Computing Initiative
L2TP and IPSec
native support (802.1x, TKIP, WEP re-keying)
User feedback (consumer and enterprise)
Windows Media 9 codes / DMO wrapper
Synchronise with latest Messenger technologies
Device Management
Configuration Manager, Push Router hooks
Industry movement
IPv6 protocol and applications
Browser
File system Filters

18. Windows Mobile SE Enable OEM innovation Minimise developer impact
Native use:
GetSystemMetrics
SCALEX, SCALEY macros
WM_SETTINGCHANGE and WM_SIZE
ChangeDisplayOrientationEx
Managed use:
Form.Resize

19. Pocket PC screen sizes
(support for and .18 dot pitch)

20. Pocket PC screen sizes

21. Smartphone screen sizes

22. Agenda Orientation Mobile Platform .NET Compact Framework
Windows Mobile Roadmap

23. Compact Framework design goals
Target mobile and embedded devices
Portable subset of .NET Framework
No new ‘compact’ namespaces
C# and Visual Basic .NET compiler support
Leverage Visual Studio .NET
Run managed .EXEs and .DLLs directly
Debug with Visual Studio .NET
Peacefully co-exist with host OS
Run on native threads, P/Invoke to native code

24. Compact CLR common features
Verifiable type safe execution
No uninitialised variables, unsafe casts, bad array indexing or bad pointer arithmetic
Garbage collection
No reference counting and no leaks
JIT compilation
Error handling with exceptions
Common type system
Call, inherit, and source-level debug across different languages

25. Compact CLR differences
No COM Interop
Good support for calling native DLLs
Can call COM objects through DLL wrappers
Can’t write COM / ActiveX in C# or Visual Basic
No install-time JIT (nGen)
No reflection emit
No remoting
Client web services are fully supported
No generic serialisation
DataSets can be serialised to XML
Subsets of other areas of functionality

26. DEMO Create a Web Service Create a Pocket PC 2003 client application
Deploy the application to the Pocket PC 2003 emulator

27. Agenda Orientation Mobile Platform .NET Compact Framework
Windows Mobile Roadmap

28. Windows Mobile roadmap
eVC 3 (C++)
eVC 4 (C++)
VS .NET 2003 (C#, VB.NET)
eVC 3 (C++)
eVB 3 (VB)
eVC 3 (C++)
eVB 3 (VB)
VS 2005 (C#, VB.NET, C++)
Tools
Devices
PPC + PE v Next
VGA, Landscape, Square, Standard
Platforms
PPC 2000
SP v Next
QVGA,
Standard
PPC + PE 2002
SP 2002
PPC + PE 2003
SP 2003
+ .NET CF Whidbey, New native runtimes, 1st class managed code, Notification Manager, DirectX, Location APIs, Dr Watson
Win32,
POOM
APIs
+ MFC,
Connection Manager
+ .NET Compact Framework,
Bluetooth,
SMS
CE OS
3.0
3.0
4.2
Macallan

29. Windows Mobile Futures
In the OS
eDB – a step forward from CEDB
Location Services API
Update to WebServer (ASP support)
Pocket Watson
DirectX (D3D, modular Media Player)
For the developer
Combined IDE for Native and Managed
Mobile SOAP toolkit
.NET CF V2 development
COM Interop, XPath, Crypto, Registry, Generics etc.
Hosting Interface
New Libraries
System.Messaging
Unified Notifications
POOM – SMS, Mail, Calendar, Tasks etc.
Telephony, all Phone related functions

30. SQL CE Futures Laguna code name for SQL CE 3.0 Runtime Improvements:
Performance – remove OLEDB for managed code
Re-use spent storage pages
Query hints
Updateable scrollable cursors.
Multi User
Tools:
Integration to Workbench
DTS
Data Designer in Whidbey

31. Questions?

32. Summary Rich platform and hardware Windows Mobile 2003
Rich and robust platform on which to build and deploy Mobile applications
Visual Studio .NET 2003
State of the art development tools for targeting the .NET Compact Framework
.NET Compact Framework
Brings mobile device development to mainstream developer community

33. Windows Mobile Resources
Windows Mobile Developer Tools and Resources
Windows Mobile Developer Resource Kit
msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/prodtechinfo/platforms/ windowsmobile/resourcekit
20 new technical articles and 20 new case studies
eMbedded Visual C++ 3.0, 4.0 and 4.0 SP3
Resources for Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition
Pocket PC 2002, 2003 and 2003 Second Edition Emulators
Smartphone 2002, 2003 and 2003 Second Edition Emulators
Compact Framework 1.0 SP2 Redistributable
Developer Power Toys
Free (just pay $16 shipping)

34. Windows Mobile Resources
Windows Mobile Developer Communities
communities/developer
Windows Mobile Application Developer Centre
Mobile2Market
Online Learning
Online European Community

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