Anyone doing any Smartphone/Pocket PC development?

[QED]

Well, as per a recent thread here in Programming, I decided to take up studying C#.

I've found myself very impressed with Microsoft's implementation of it thus far-- and this
is coming from a life-long Unix/Linux geek.

Anyways, as I've become more familiar with C# I've found myself wanting to dabble (in my spare time, of course)
in doing some development for Smartphones/Pocket PCs.

I have Harvey Rowson's excellent C# Mobile IDE, and it works great for testing small pieces of C# code on my Pocket PC.

My question is, for those who do mobile development... what are the pros and cons of using C# for mobile development versus, say, C++? What tools do you use or recommend? Do you use Microsoft's Visual Studio, or
one of the other 3rd party compilers out there?

 

[WannaFly]

I've done quite a bit of mobile development in .NET, and none in C/C++/Embedded for mobile devices.

Simply, Its efficient, the .NET framework will most likely provide 80% of the "complex" tasks that most applications need to do. It enables rapid development of applications, without having to focus on base classes or foundations like C.

It shares the same advantages as .NET on the desktop, if you ask me. The one major difference, is that you have to me more memory, performance, and graphically consious of what you are doing. I've noticed .NET apps tend to run slower then non .NET apps. I use visual studio, it's intellisense, backgorund compiler, and IDE in general cannot be beat for .NET development.

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