Supported Classes in the .NET Compact Framework

.NET Framework Developer's Guide

The .NET Compact Framework supports about 28 percent of the namespaces and classes of the full .NET Framework, and is about 8 percent of its size. To keep the size small, only the most important classes and members are supported.

Determining Support

For information about how to use the class library to determine .NET Compact Framework support and versioning, see How to: Use the Class Library for the .NET Compact Framework.

Unsupported Functionality

The .NET Compact Framework does not support the following technologies:

Server functionality
ASP.NET
Remoting
Reflection Emit
C++ development
J# and JSL development

The .NET Compact Framework does not support code access security in version 1.0 and 2.0, but it is planned for a future release.

Unique .NET Compact Framework Classes

The following namespaces and classes are available only in the .NET Compact Framework.

Namespace or type	For more information
Microsoft.WindowsMobile.DirectX	Mobile Direct3D Programming
Microsoft.WindowsMobile.DirectX.Direct3D	Mobile Direct3D Programming
Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms	How to: Use the MessageWindow Class How to: Use a DocumentList Control How to: Use the HardwareButton Component How to: Use the InputPanel Component How to: Set Pocket PC Input Methods How to: Send a Notification How to: Set Smartphone Input Modes
IrDAEndPoint IrDACharacterSet IrDAClient IrDADeviceInfo IrDAHints IrDAListener	Infrared Connections How to: Make an Infrared File Transfer
System.Data.SqlServerCe	What's New in SQL Server Compact Edition

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