Microsoft's Compact Framework Targets Smart Devices

ABSTRACT

Welcome to my first installment of ACM Queue’s ToolKit column. Each issue I’ll dig beneath the market-friendly, feature-rich exterior of some of the best-known (and some of the least-known) development tools in an attempt to separate the core app from the product spec sheet.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.2 Design Tools and Techniques
          Subjects: Computer-aided software engineering (CASE)

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.2 Design Tools and Techniques
          Subjects: Object-oriented design methods
          Nouns: Visual C++
      D.2.6 Programming Environments
          Subjects: Integrated environments
  D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
      D.3.2 Language Classifications

          Nouns: C#

  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces

          Nouns: Microsoft .NET

General Terms:
Human Factors, Languages, Management, Standardization