Mobile and Embedded Development

1. Windows Phone
2. Windows Embedded
3. Windows Mobile
4. .NET Compact Framework
5. Mobile Web Development
6. Windows Automotive
7. .NET Micro Framewor

Windows Phone 

For documentation on the Windows Phone platform, see Windows Phone Development. 

Windows Embedded 

Windows Embedded Compact

Windows Embedded Compact is a modular real-time embedded operating system for small footprint and mobile 32-bit intelligent and connected devices.

Windows Embedded Developer Update

Provides information about the Windows Embedded Developer Update application.

Windows Embedded Device Management

Provides information about managing and configuring embedded devices.

Windows Embedded NavReady

Windows Embedded NavReady provides a set of innovative features that are compatible with Windows Embedded Compact and are ready to be implemented on a portable navigation device (PND).

Windows Embedded Server

Provides information about a licensed version of Windows Server that is intended to be used by manufacturers of hardware-based embedded solutions.

Windows Embedded Standard

Provides information about Windows Embedded Standard 7, Windows Embedded Standard 2009, and Windows XP Embedded.

Windows NT Embedded

Provides information about Windows NT Embedded 4.0.

Windows Embedded for Point of Service

Provides information about Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 and Windows Embedded for Point of Service.

POS for .NET

Provides information about the POS for .NET v1.12 SDK, which includes interfaces for applications to interact with point-of-service (POS) devices. Windows Mobile  Windows Mobile is a platform for mobile devices based on Windows Embedded CE and used in a wide variety of Windows® phones. Visual Studio and the Windows Mobile software development kits (SDKs) and developer tool kits (DTKs) make it possible to create software for the Windows Mobile platform in both native code (Visual C++) and managed code (Visual C#, Visual Basic, .NET).

This document set includes documentation for the Windows Mobile 6.5.3 DTK.

.NET Compact Framework 

The Microsoft .NET Compact Framework is a smart device development framework that brings the world of managed code and XML Web services to devices. The Compact Framework provides the same benefits as the .NET Framework, but it is designed specifically for resource-constrained devices, such as PDAs.

.NET Compact Framework Technical Articles cover a wide variety of topics, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. .NET Compact Framework Technical Articles topics

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