Help with programming

[Guest squippo]

Hello all.

Im intersted in in learning how to create my own apps. Any help/tips to get me started?

Thanks

[Guest moo_ski_doo]

That depends on whether you've got any programming experience. If not then I'd suggest that starting with programming for the Smartphone is not the best plan as it's quite difficult (I've been programming for years and I still struggle!)

If you are a competent C/C++ programmer, and particularly if you've got a Windows programming background, you should be alright. Download eMbedded Visual Tools ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en ) if you want to program for Smartphone 2002, or eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0 ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en ) and the Smartphone 2003 SDKs if you want to develop for Smartphone 2003 (in fact I think there's several different combinations of environments and SDKs etc., eg. using Visual Studio.NET, but this is the way I do it.) To start with I'd just have a look at the samples that come with these development environments and see if you can get them compiling and running.

Once you've done that just come back here and look in one of the development forums (that's probably where this post should be - I'm sure the mods will move it for you :) ). If there isn't already an answer to a question you might have, just post the question yourself - there are quite a few good programmers who use this site regularly, so you'll usually get some sort of useful reply!

Anyway, hope this helps.