17, the company says.

(Click here for a larger view of the Windows Mobile Today screen on an 800 x 480 device)

In the webcast, presenters Constanze Roman and Maarten Struys will help developers "create one single application that can target different Windows Mobile Devices with different form factors," according to a description posted on Microsoft's MSDN website. Promised information includes how to:

• Change easily between portrait and landscape modes via docking and anchoring
  
• Add touchscreen functionality, for Windows Mobile Professional devices
  
• Create "adaptive applications," taking advantage of the different hardware capabilities of Windows Mobile devices

Once in the not-too-distant past, few Windows Mobile devices offered screen resolution exceeding 320 x 240 pixels. Today, some offer a much greater work area, with resolutions as high as 800 x 480.


Shown to scale: Windows Mobile at 320 x 240 (left) and 800 x 480 pixels (right)
(Click either to enlarge)
As the above screens show, 800 x 480 displays (right) show substantially more information than 320 x 240 equivalents (left). Examples of 800 x 480 Windows Mobile devices include HTC's just-announced Touch HD, plus Toshiba's G900, Sony Ericsson's Xperia X1, and Wilcom's 03.

Constanze Roman, a community program manager with Microsoft's Windows Mobile team, has been working in the Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded field for more than seven years, and frequently participates in webcasts, blogs, and other activities aimed at the Windows Mobile developer community, according to Microsoft. She maintains her own blog devoted to Windows Mobile development, Constanze's Mobile Musings.

Windows Embedded Evangelist Maarten Struys is a technical manager at PTS Software in the Netherlands. Struys speaks regularly at Windows-related conferences, according to Microsoft, and is also a freelance journalist who maintains a blog on the .NET for Devices website.

Further information

To sign up for "24 hours of Windows Mobile application development: dealing with different form factors," go to Microsoft's MSDN website, here. MSDN also offers on-demand versions of previous webcasts by Roman and Struys, including their recent discussion of Microsoft's Windows Mobile emulators.

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