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Windows Mobile 6.5 – What's new for developers ?

Hello Folks .... i am back with new article. As title suggest its about Windows Mobile 6.5 and what's in it for developers ?
As you are already aware there was lot of buzz about Windows Mobile 6.5 look & feel and its hone comb UI design. although i am not excited about new look & feel ( Can't stop comparing WM with iPhone :) ) but it has its own improvements and i am not going to talk about them. 

I am going to talk about about what is new for developers. 
Cloud computing is Industry's BUZZ word and it is the main addition to Windows Mobile development.

Having said that, it is not new thing but Microsoft have added "Windows Mobile Widget" to IDE. That makes developer life easy while developing Web based application / cloud computing application.
until today developers have basically two options to create applications for Windows Phones:
a)      Native Code (primarily in C/C++)
b)      Managed code (using the .net compact framework)
And even though there have been lots of improvements on development tools and libraries, writing great looking mobile apps is still hard to do.  Starting on 6.5 though Microsoft have added a new option for developers out there… “Windows Mobile Widgets”.
So what the heck is Windows Mobile Widget ?  
Windows Mobile Widget is simply a rich internet application.  Widgets are written using all the web technologies we know and love (HTML, CSS, AJAX, JavaScript) and, since they are powered under the covers by new internet browser, they have full access to flash and other ActiveX controls available on the device (Like MediaPlayer).
The interesting thing about our Widget Platform is that it allows them to look and feel, to the end user, as a normal standalone application does; they have their own start menu icon, they show up as an individual apps in task manager and, most importantly, they have full control of the SK menu bar as any other application would . 
So bottom line is, Widgst is a rich internet application with Native / Managed style Menu , icons .. etc yet cross compatible on Windows Mobile devices or devices with similar browser capabilities. 


Sample apps from Microsoft :


 
 
  
  
  Hope this helps !!!!!!!!!!!!

 
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