Feed me, Seymour

[cjsmith]

I should know better than to have a salad for lunch. There was NOTHING in there that could stick with me, so I'm ravenous now, despite the fact that that dressing was nearly pure sugar (eww) and thus I've had a reasonable caloric intake for the rest of the year.

And now for something completely different: Is anybody reading this a Windows Mobile programmer?

Comments

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

I do some .NET CF coding for my Windows Mobile device for fun. Does that count?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Sure! I'm hoping to go native rather than .NET but I have (so far) zero clue about what I'm doing.

I'm trying to figure out how to get started at all. Is there some DevStudio plugin or something I should go fetch?

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Yes. Start reading here (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/developers/default.mspx) and download this (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=83A52AF2-F524-4EC5-9155-717CBE5D25ED&displaylang=en)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Most excellent! Thank you. Already I'm in a better position than I was after hours of reading this sort of stuff. If I can't yet tell you the difference between Windows Mobile 5.0, Windows CE, Windows Smartphone, etc, then I need to start at the very beginning!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

OK, I'm stuck again and feeling like an idjit. May I pretty please pick your brain?

- If I write some managed code for a Windows Mobile device, can I then package my code and the .NET stuff itself into one installer, so there's a single-step install for it?

- If instead I go native, is there ANY way to embed an IE control or otherwise make my program run the browser? Something along the lines of system("run IE now on this URL"); would be great if I could get it. I'm OK with my app dying off once it reaches that point.