NEW ORLEANS — Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates on Wednesday will announce the worldwide launch of .Net Compact Framework, a tool that lets developers bring Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft on Monday will announce new tools for building software for cell phones and personal digital assistants. The software maker will debut a second test version of its .Net Compact Framework, a ...

Microsoft Corp. on Monday filled more of the gaps in its portfolio of software and tools for building Web-based applications that run on handheld computers, cell phones and other mobile devices. The ...

Unveiled at the Microsoft Mobility Developer Conference in London, the .Net compact framework is essentially a scaled-down version of Microsoft's XML Web services suitable for portable devices such as ...

I'm trying to write a small inventory application that will be used on our handhelds running Windows CE. I'm not new to .NET, but this is my first foray into the Compact Framework. I have a plan for ...

I wrote a quick stop watch program for my phone, and although it does enough for my purposes, I was rather shocked to find out that every call I made to the Compact Framework 3.5 version of ...