I'd personally go for C#, .net & SQL CE: None of them have any particularly outstanding qualities, but they've been set up to work nicely together and are all Microsoft's babies, so you're (reasonably) unlikely to get shafted (too much).
It could be possible (but looks like more trouble than it's worth) to write delphi.net applications which will run on the .net compact framework (http://blogs.borland.com/dcc/archive/2005/03/18/3214.aspx): .netCF is probably the way to go (not that I've touched Java since Polytech: might be worth finding someone that has worked in both recently), but if you are going to do more than one or two tiny apps, I suspect that getting and learning MS visual studio & C# would be less trouble than making D8 generate .netCF-acceptable assemblies. If you want to communicate with a 'properly' compiled backend app, you might find it easier going to write a .net comms layer (exposing web services for the .netCF device to consume) than to get .netCF to talk to your native code. MS's standard for databases on mobile devices is pretty much 'use SQL CE' - it's functional but about as friendly as you would expect from a RDBMS with a 1.5 meg footprint (don't expect automatic query optimisations, stored procedures etc). -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert martin Sent: Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:14 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List Subject: [DUG-Offtopic] Windows Mobile (pocket PC) Hi If one was intending to develop an application for Pocket PC and was not yet a Java / Net user what would people recommend for quick update and development? Application would require some sort of DB, what options are available for these devices? We really no nothing about these devices, so any feed back would be good :) -- Rob Martin Software Engineer phone +64 03 377 0495 fax +64 03 377 0496 web www.chreos.com Wild Software Ltd _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic
