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Mobile PCs and Tablet PCs are a growing market segment and are of the utmost strategic importance to Microsoft. New developments in hardware, software, developer tools, and SDKs give developers many new opportunities.

The sometimes-connected nature of mobile computers means that you need to build software that works smoothly as networks connect and disconnect. This article shows you how to build network-aware software using the Network Location Awareness APIs.

An article on how to do file transfers in mobile phones.

This Visual C# and Visual Basic .NET Starter Kit is a complete Mobile PC and Tablet PC application. The starter kit contains a semi-transparent form for taking notes and keeps them synchronized through a Web Service. It also supports battery awareness and online and offline data, two key features of a great Mobile PC applications. The project comes ready to compile and run and it's easy to customize with only a little extra programming. Download it from here.

Download Mobile Ink To-Do Starter Kit

If you learn by doing, these step-by-step hands-on labs are great ways to learn about Windows Mobile, Visual Studio, .NET Compact Framework, and SQL Mobile. Each lab includes sample code and a step-by-step instruction manual that will guide you through a specific development scenario. These are a really great set of labs that are available here.

If you learn by doing, these step-by-step hands-on labs are great ways to learn about Windows Mobile, Visual Studio, .NET Compact Framework, and SQL Mobile. Each lab includes sample code and a step-by-step instruction manual that will guide you through a specific development scenario. Check it out here

Software can have a huge effect on the life span of a battery; scaling down functionality is an easy way to drastically increase the lifetime of mobile PC battery. Do your users a favor and find out how to optimize your applications' power requirements.

A no nonsense tutorial designed to give Visual Basic developers an insight into developing VB applications for handheld devices such as PDAs.

Question: My company is in the process of developing an Windows Mobile 5 mobile application. One of the things that we need to do for the application design is show notification. I have read that this can be done. However, I can't seem to figure out how it can be done. Do you have any code samples or ideas about how this can be done?

Answer: When developing mobile applications using Windows Mobile 5 this is definitely an extremely useful feature to include within your application. The Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms namespace provides a managed implementation of the notifications function. It is important to remember that this is only supported on the Pocket PC platform.

Learn about the benefits of Visual Studio 2005 for .NET Compact Framework development. Each page of the tour provides a succinct introduction to a key feature or technology area of Visual Studio 2005 that impacts .NET Compact Framework developers.