| Microsoft relaunches online resource for Windows Mobile developers |
Feb. 26, 2008
Microsoft says its online Windows Mobile Developer center has been completely redesigned, with more diverse content, and quicker access to related blogs. Four main sections are devoted to "applications for smart devices," "mobile games," "mobile web," and "rich Internet development," according to the company.
Rob Tiffany, a senior technical product manager for Windows Mobile, posted on the Windows Mobile team blog, "It won't be 100 percent enterprise development any more. We'll still do that, but we're now making a concerted effort to expand the diversity of our content, to cover an ever-growing mobile developer audience."
Microsoft's new Windows Mobile Developer Center
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Now, as Tiffany notes, visitors to the site will see four sections (visible in the screen capture above). The first, devoted to applications for smart devices, will offer content targeting native, managed, and SQL Server Compact topics. In addition to enterprise development, it will now focus on more consumer scenarios, such as Mobile Facebook, for example.
"We’ll also go the other direction too and provide content on working with low-level APIs with C++," he adds. "And yes, we’ll even start talking about creating better device drivers."
The second section covers mobile games, "a topic that we used to give a lot of coverage to," Tiffany says. "Based on the way this segment of the market is taking off, teaching you how to build games for Windows Mobile devices could turn out to be just as important as the work we've done in teaching you how to build mobile apps for the enterprise."
The third section covers mobile web development, including "the nuts and bolts" of building web sites designed for mobile devices. Topics will include Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) on Internet Explorer Mobile, the new .MOBI standards, W3C Mobile Web best practices, and the XHTML Mobile Profile.
The fourth section, devoted to "rich internet applications," bears a "stay tuned" legend. "Don't think of it as you would an 'Under Construction' web site," says Tiffany. "Think of it as the big tease that it is. Who knows for sure what's to come in the RIA space for Windows Mobile devices?"
In addition to these main sections, a list at the upper right-hand part of the screen provides access to Windows Mobile-related tutorials and documentation. Below the four main boxes, other lists provide access to the main Windows Mobile Team blog, plus more than a dozen other Windows Mobile-related blogs by Microsoft employees. These include those by Windows Embedded software architect Mike Hall and enterprise mobile solution specialist Jason Langridge.
Further information
To read Rob Tiffany's post introducing the Windows Mobile Developer Center to readers of the Windows Mobile blog, go here. To access the Windows Mobile Developer Center directly, go to the Microsoft website, here.
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