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Compact Framework 2.0 - comments from WE-DIG

Last night (or about two months ago if you are catching up on the blog in January 2006) we had an evening full of Compact Framework content, which was great - here's some tidbits I picked up from last nights presentations.

Compact Framework 2.0 runs on the following devices

  • Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition (SE)
  • Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC and Smartphone
  • Windows CE 5.0

This means there's no back-compat for Windows CE 4.x or Pocket PC 200x devices.

Compact Framwork 2.0 supports 98% of CF 1.1 applications (based on testing over 500 existing Compact Framework applications) - this means you don't need a side by side install of CF 1.0 and 2.0 on the same device.

Compact Framework 2.0 covers approximately 30% of the desktop framework functionality in about 8% of the size - The size is about 2MB compressed, or about 5MB uncompressed. Scaling this up, does that mean that the full desktop framework could be replicated in about 6MB (compressed) ? <g>

Support for headless devices is coming in CF 2.0 SP1 (Woot! \o/) - there's something to look forward to!

Also, that Anil Dhawan chap presented a session on writing managed Bluetooth applicaitons using the Windows Embedded Source Tools for Bluetooth (WESTB) shared source class library - turns out this is a real time saver (but I already knew that).

- Mike

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