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Application Development (Compact 2013)

3/26/2014

To develop applications that will run on the operating system that you build for your Windows Embedded Compact powered device, add support for application development features.

For example, you can implement Windows Embedded Compact APIs to develop managed applications, Active Template Library (ATL) or Component Object Model (COM) applications, or other applications that use XML data.

In This Section

  • .NET Compact Framework
    Microsoft .NET Compact Framework is a hardware-independent program execution environment for managed code that runs on Windows Embedded Compact applications.
  • COM and DCOM
    COM is a platform-independent, distributed, object-oriented system for creating binary software components that can interact.
  • XML
    Windows Embedded Compact supports a subset of XML.
  • XmlLite
    By using XmlLite you can build XML-based applications that can interoperate with other applications that adhere to the XML 1.0 standard.
  • Scripting Languages
    Describes Microsoft VBScript and Microsoft Jscript scripting languages used by run-time engines.

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