What’s new for .NETCF developers in Orcas ...

Orcas coming with the following new features for the Mobile developers

• Unit testing for devices like VSTS have for Desktop and Web applications
• Device Security Manager : to make sure that application will run on the devices with different level of security
• Device Emulator 2.0: It is 40% faster than older one, it have battery simulation to simulate the different battery levels.
• Device Emulator 3.0: Comes with XML config file and support for scripting e.g. VB Script helps in better testing using test scripts
• .NETCF 3.5

What’s New for developers in Windows Mobile 6

The features provided by WM6

• WM6 devices will have .NETCF 2.0 with SP 2 and SQL Server Compact Edition 2005 preinstalled in ROM
• Compatible with WM5 applications
• Support for AJAX
• 2 New native API’s
• Sound API : Can Play MID,WMA,WAV and MP3 file formats
• WISP (Windows Ink Service Platform) Lite: for ink reorganization, it will help to develop character reorganization type applications.

• New WM 6.0 SDK

• Security Tools: These tools will help to sign the application and make the applications to run on Smart Phones and PPC. These 2 devices have different level of security settings so the application that can run on PPC (which have 1 tier security) not necessarily can run on Smartphone (which have 2 tier Security). It provides 2 tools
• Security Configuration Manager
• CabSign Tool

Apart from this the SDK tools available with WM6

• Fake GPS: This will allow you to send the Fake GPS values to your device so that it would be easy to implement and test the GPS functionality in the application even if the device don’t have GPS feature.
• Fake Server: This tool will simulate the Web services so that the application can work in disconnected mode and still can access the features of the web service
• Cellular Emulator: Using this user can send and receive SMS/ voice calls from the emulator.
• Hopper: This is tool that will test mobile application against random key inputs, it actually simulate multiple keystrokes and clicks on the screen to test the applications vulnerability against such inputs.
• WM test framework: similar to test suit of the VSTS, new WM6 contains the test suit for the .NETCF developers.