Starter KitsWindows Mobile Starter Kits are fully functional sample applications. Each sample is complete and contains its documentation, so you can get started right away. On this pageHow to Install a Starter KitBefore you begin, you must have Visual Studio 2005 and the Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC or Smartphone SDK already installed on your computer. Then, select the Starter Kit of your choice, click on download and select Save. Visual C# and Visual Basic.NET Starter Kits When you launch the downloaded file, the Starter Kit will be installed as a project template inside Visual Studio. You can them use the Starter Kit by creating a new Visual Studio Project, and selecting the project type from Visual C# (or Visual Basic) / Starter Kits. Once a Starter Kit project has been created, online documentation is automatically displayed. Visual C++ Starter Kits Starter Kits written in Visual C++ are presented in standard Visual Studio project format, stored in a zip archive. Unzip the file to a know location, and then load the project into Visual Studio. Documentation for the Starter Kit is contained within the project as an HTML file: to read it, right-click on the .htm file in the Documentation folder in the Solution Explorer, and select View in Browser. Using the Starter KitTo build and run the Starter Kit, press F5. By default this will use the relevant emulator to deploy and launch the application Note: You must accept the End User License Agreement below before installing and using the Starter Kit. Name: Ski Time Mobile This Windows Mobile® Starter Kit is a ready-to-run arcade game for Windows Mobile 6 Standard devices, with a portrait format 220 by 176 pixel display. This starter kit demonstrates the following technologies:
Name: Home Screen Alarm Plug-in This Windows Mobile® Starter Kit is a ready-to-run home screen plug-in that shows alarm information on the home screen and provides a shortcut to access alarm settings. This starter kit demonstrates the following technologies:
Name: Tic Tac Toe This Windows Mobile® Starter Kit is a ready-to-run Tic Tac Toe game that uses the new Mobile Ink APIs. The user can play against another person or against the computer, by writing X’s or O’s directly onto the touch screen. This starter kit demonstrates the following technologies:
Name: WMPStatusPlugin The WMPStatusPlugin Starter Kit is a complete Today Screen plug-in for a Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC, written in Visual C++. By tapping on the plug-in, you can toggle Windows Media Player Mobile between play and pause modes. The sample also includes a background plug-in to control the current instance of the Windows Media player. The project comes ready to compile, deploy and run.
Download Name: DexMobile DexMobile is a simple board-game, the object of which is to arrange your pieces into a perfect triangle before the game's AI can do the same. It's not as easy as it might sound! The starter kit demonstrates several managed code techniques, including:
Download Name: Tabbed Web Browser The Tabbed Web Browser Starter Kit uses the .NET Compact Framework's WebBrowser control to create a replacement browser for Internet Explorer Mobile. The new browser supports tabs, which allows multiple web pages to be visited at once.
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