NEW ORLEANS — Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates on Wednesday will announce the worldwide launch of .Net Compact Framework, a tool that lets developers bring Microsoft’s .Net ...

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Microsoft on Monday will announce new tools for building software for cell phones and personal digital assistants. The software maker will debut a second test version of its .Net Compact Framework, a ...

Microsoft is readying a test version of software for bringing its .Net Web services plan to mobile devices. The software maker said on Tuesday that it has posted a test version of its .Net Compact ...

NEW ORLEANS — Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates on Wednesday will announce the worldwide launch of .Net Compact Framework, a tool that lets developers bring Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft Corp. on Monday filled more of the gaps in its portfolio of software and tools for building Web-based applications that run on handheld computers, cell phones and other mobile devices. The ...

When microsoft rolled out Pocket PC 2002 in September, it dared all of us to expect more from our PDAs and phones than appointments and address books. At the time, it was easy to believe that .Net ...

I'm trying to write a small inventory application that will be used on our handhelds running Windows CE. I'm not new to .NET, but this is my first foray into the Compact Framework. I have a plan for ...

Unveiled at the Microsoft Mobility Developer Conference in London, the .Net compact framework is essentially a scaled-down version of Microsoft's XML Web services suitable for portable devices such as ...

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I wrote a quick stop watch program for my phone, and although it does enough for my purposes, I was rather shocked to find out that every call I made to the Compact Framework 3.5 version of ...