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.

• Active Template Library (ATL)
  ATL provides a development framework for creating C++ applications for Windows Embedded Compact.

• Browser Support Catalog Items and SYSGEN Variables
  Provides reference information about the catalog items and associated SYSGEN variables that you can use to add WinInet and MSHTML support to your OS.

• C and C++ Libraries for Windows Embedded Compact
  Provides reference information about the C function library.

• COM and DCOM
  COM is a platform-independent, distributed, object-oriented system for creating binary software components that can interact.

• Diagnostic and Debugging Tools Catalog Items and SYSGEN Variables
  These SYSGENs provide support that allows you to use Application Builder debugging and the Remote Tools.

• 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.

See Also

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