Thanks to all who replied.
It looks like I am going to need to do a bit of research on this one !
Lucky the client has yet to decide if they want the app or not :)
Rob Martin
Software Engineer
phone +64 03 377 0495
fax +64 03 377 0496
web www.chreos.com
Wild Software Ltd
Chris Mckenzie wrote:
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-----
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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 :)
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Rob Martin
Software Engineer
phone +64 03 377 0495
fax +64 03 377 0496
web www.chreos.com
Wild Software Ltd
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