Have you ever dreamt about porting your managed Windows Mobile application to Symbian OS? Or, maybe you wanted to develop a new one but were uncertain whether you need to learn a new paradigms and languages? Well, with Net60 from Red Five Labs, you may be relieved; you can continue your development in your favorite languages!

The Microsoft .NET Micro Framework, formerly known as Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT), is a powerful and flexible platform for rapidly creating embedded device firmware with Microsoft Visual Studio. Now is just the right time to explore this new world.

Learn how to rapidly develop applications and add-ins using ATL for Windows CE.

Drill deeper into Mobile Development in C++ and go through the development and debugging of a Windows Mobile 6 application with a focus on MFC.

Try a no-embedded-background-needed introduction into developing Windows Mobile applications in C++. With comprehensive support for smart device development in Visual C++ and great device emulation features in the Windows Mobile SDKs, mobile development is well within the reach of all Visual C++ developers.

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With the increasing power of the Compact Framework, more and more development tasks under Windows Mobile may be accomplished using either C# or VB.NET. Nevertheless, there always will be something that you just can't do in there and therefore developing an interface to unmanaged code is almost inevitable. Learn few simple things you have to know on this way.

Windows Mobile 6.0 is finally officially available. What's new in there for you as a developer? This article tries to explore this new version of mobile OS.

It isn't a big secret that anyone in development world would prefer one source code for all platforms rather than maintain several different copies. The Windows Template Library (WTL) gives you such an opportunity!

Mobile development has steadily become more than just a 'nice-to-have' feature, thanks to the permanently growing power of PDAs. Many desktop applications were ported to run in a mobile environment. Learn about a few underwater stones you might face when handling textual data.

Application performance is usually a grey and painful area. Users obviously want your application to be rich in functionality and fly like a rocket with minimum resources required and so forth. How can you get closer to such an ideal creature? Learn a few simple rules and methods that will improve your mobile application's performance.

Learn how to access a camera and capture video by using a Windows Mobile 5.0 API called DirectShow.

Device Driver Development is often considered as some kind of magic and not useful ato pplication programmers. Under Windows CE, this is by far not correct! Learn how may you benefit from it.

If you are new to media streaming and want to learn more, this is a good opportunity to explore new multimedia support in Windows Mobile 5.0.

By Bradley L. Jones Learn how to build your first mobile device application using Visual Studio 2005. No PocketPC required!

Software Input Panel (SIP) is common component in different versions of Windows CE. In many cases you will need to manipulate SIP to make your application more convenient for the end user. Become a SIP Wizard, learn how you can manage SIP to empower your software!

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Should you move over to MS Visual Studio 2005 for your mobile development?

Does your application need to get called at some point in time? Do you want to inform the user regarding what's going on? Learn how to use Windows Mobile Notifications and Power Manager, and benefit from both!

Your data must be guarded from unauthorized access! Encryption, Digital Signatures, and Certificates—these are your workhorses. Learn how Crypto API can help you on this way on Windows Mobile devices.

In an era of global communications and data exchange, mobile devices became a natural part of complex software systems. Mobile applications manage more and more confidential data, which has to be guarded from unauthorized user. Crypto API provides robust way to perform all required tasks and keep your data secured. Learn the basics of cryptology techniques available on Windows Mobile devices.

Have you ever wanted to show video clips in your application or maybe play audio files? Learn how to do it easily with Windows Media Player Control!

Learn all about the new managed classes that enable C# and VB.NET Compact Framework developers to quickly gain access to Pocket Outlook data and modify it (if necessary) without additional products.

MS ActiveSync Service Providers give you almost unlimited control over the data synchronization process between a mobile device and a desktop computer. Get updated on how to implement your own ASP to empower your applications.

After you have learned relatively simple but powerful functionality MS ActiveSync exposes to application programmers, it is time to move on and study more complex solutions thtat give you additional control over data synchronization.