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Microsoft has recently launched the Windows Mobile 5.0 platform for Pocket PCs and Smartphones. With the proliferation of Windows Mobile-based devices in the marketplace, companies are gradually mobilizing their enterprising applications to let their staff gain the competitive mobile advantage.

AppForge's latest version of Crossfire lets you write mobile apps in .NET languages for numerous devices. While this release adds support for Research In Motion's Blackberry, it currently lacks access to PIM and native Blackberry Java functionality.

This test tool helps developers of Windows Mobile applications test various security policies for Windows Mobile devices.

It is designed as a desktop application that ships with a preset list of "security configurations". A security configuration can be thought of as a template, which contains a collection of individual policies and settings. For example, a security configuration could define policies such as whether unsigned applications are allowed to execute, whether RAPI is disabled etc. Using this tool, the developer can provision a Windows Mobile device with different configurations, and then test the application's behavior under these configurations. This tool can be used either on an emulator or an unlocked Windows Mobile device.

This project gives basic idea of how to develop patient monitoring systems based on a Windows mobile device

A library for compressing XML content suitable for mobile devices.

Explains how to customize ASP.NET pages on different mobile device types, how to support CSS and how to make user friendly ASP.NET mobile sites.

Explains how to make ASP.NET mobile applications by using ASP.NET Mobile Software Development kit (Mobile SDK).

The Fabrikam Fine Furniture reference application is a feature-rich, fully-functional reference application to assist you in building mobile PC and Tablet PC solutions.

This article shows how to use DCOM on Windows CE 5.0. We will add full DCOM rich error information, and implement a DCOM interface between a Windows XP .NET 2.0 client and Windows CE DCOM server. With this code, it is possible to code .NET remoting alike functionality through DCOM interop.

Learning a simple series of steps in Visual Studio 2005 will make deploying applications to mobile devices a no-brainer from here on out. Follow along with this project, which includes step-by-step instructions, code, and a sample .ini file.