Bill Patten
bill_patten at embarqmail.com
Sat Apr 17 16:24:04 CDT 2010
Shamil, I don't know from experience but the HTC HD2 has a 4.3 inch capacitive touch screen which I am told is better then the resistive one of the newTouch and is also larger. Rumor has it that the HD2 will not be upgradable to Windows Mobile 7 but other rumors say it will. There is apparently a third party upgrade announced by XDA if Win Mobile 7 is important to you. You might want to compare specs on the neotouch and HD2 before jumping in. Bill -------------------------------------------------- From: "Shamil Salakhetdinov" <shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 1:01 PM To: "'Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.'" <dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Programming for Windows Mobile 6.x (WM6.x) using.NETFramework/VS 2008-2010 Hi Bill, David, and Doug -- Thank you for your answers/opinions. Yes, I'd not expect to have big troubles with development for SmartPhones/Personal Communicators running under Windows Mobile 6.x - I just wanted to know what time it could take to start this development: as far as I see now I have everything except a real physical device - for the latter one I'm looking at Acer neoTouch S200 (http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Acer-neoTouch-S200-Review-review-r_2287.htm l ) That one seems to be good and modern and runs on Windows Mobile 6.5, and should be upgradable to Windows Mobile 7 but it have a few issues as far as I have got found: - 1) display screen isn't bright enough, - 2) photocamera glass isn't protected when off, - 3) (!) if you put stylus into microphone node then you'll get sound off. Well, the 3rd issue is too exotic to take into account, the 2nd one isn't that important for me as I do not plan top use this device as a photo/video camera but the 1st one looks important... Still thinking here/waiting for better (and cheaper?) devices to come released to market... Any opinions/proposals for devices of Acer neoTouch S200 class or a bit higher class? Thank you. --Shamil -----Original Message----- From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Steele Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 9:29 PM To: Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues. Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Programming for Windows Mobile 6.x (WM6.x) using .NETFramework/VS 2008-2010 As Bill said, you're unlikely to have much trouble. My first real .Net project a couple of years ago was a barcode scanner app which used SQL Server CE to display and collect inventory information. The main programming problem I had was the limited set of properties and methods which the VS compact edition exposed - even compared to MS Access VBA! If I remember correctly, using the windows mobile emulators worked well. Again, if you've use SQL server, SS CE won't be a problem. Here is the one link I can find that may be useful, a good blog and a gateway to the SS CE world: http://erikej.blogspot.com/ Finding a good 'generic' phone might be a problem. I tried to get a recommendation from a Microsoft Windows Mobile expert at a seminar once, and he basically shrugged and said that there was no such thing. I guess you have to be prepared to start building a collection.... Doug On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Shamil Salakhetdinov < shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru> wrote: > Hi All -- > > Do you have any experience for subject? > Do you have any ready to use links for samples and other resources for the > subject? > > The subject shouldn't be a "rocket science" I expect - I just need some > _______________________________________________ dba-VB mailing list dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-VB mailing list dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb http://www.databaseadvisors.com