Red Five Labs is releasing a product called Net60 to allow Symbian phones to run ,Net CF 2.0 applications. Net60 is essentially a .Net virtual machine. It has JIT compilation support and Visual Studio 2008 support. This is like the Mono of the mobile world. Additional features include SQLite support with an ADO.Net provider, a managed namespace for accessing Symbian APIs. The product is available for 459 EUR for a single user and 250 deployments and a 30 day trial is available now.
Tags: .net micro framework
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Microsoft is having yet another embeded development contest. This ons is cenetered on the .Net Microframework. For more details see the contest web site. The contest has three phases with each phase eliminating contestants.
- October 8 - December 15th : Present your idea
- January 15 - May 15th : Build your idea
- April 15 - May 31: Present your idea.
The final round sounds tough; has to be presented before a board of industry experts. But if you survive the first round Microsoft will provide for you the hardware and the software that you need for the next round. The prices are worth over $100k. I don't know what they are but if nothing else the community recognition would make the contest worth the effort.
Tags: .net micro framework, contest
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The Windows Embeded Blog had a post about a .Net Micro framework development solution that cost under 100.00 USD. For the pricepoint and the functionality this is an incredible package! I may have to pull out my notebooks for some of the automotive projects I wanted to do (I had been considering a Windows CE device for those projects but I think this package should be more than adaquate). If you are interested you can grab one of these from GHI Electronics.
Update [2008-09-18 23:20 UTC] - feeling that this is such a power product I've already submitted an order for one for myself.
Tags: .net micro framework
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