C# & .NET for Smartphone Apps?

My comment about the tablet-style interface was intended to refer to testing; how you use the simulated device. I downloaded and installed the Android SDK and I had problems testing the program just because I did not know how to use the device as an emulated device. For example the language was set to something I could not understand; Chinese or something totally unrecognizable to me. I could not change the language; I found where to change it but then I could not get the change to be applied. So you can do most development without an actual real device but my comment was meant to indicate one small limitation of the emulator. That is, that it helps to have a little experience with the actual device.

Thanks Sam,

I did have a quick scout of the Forum's before I posted, perhaps not enough though...

Thanks very much in pointing me towards that information, that's brilliant. I hadn't actually heard of Charles Petzold before now to be honest - I don't know if that's the equivalent of programmer blasphemy, I'm still fairly new to the development racket : )

I was aware of the smart phone tablet-style touch interface, I had thought that it would probably just be a case of responding to events though in the same way as responding to user input in standard forms can be done through the 'MouseMove' and 'MouseClick' events?

Anyway, thanks very much again for pointing me towards further information,

Dan : )

Note that you would have gotten most and probably all your questions answered by looking in the articles in this web site and by searching the forums. Really; have a look.

In fact, there are some (or all) chapters from a book by Charles Petzold; do you know who he is? The book is about Windows Mobile 7 development. That will occupy some time and answer many questions. Charles Petzold is the guy that wrote one of the original books about classic Wndows programming and the most popular one.

I have one suggestion to make that might not be mentioned elsewhere. Smart phones have a different (tablet-style) interface than a desktop and even a laptop. If you are not familiar with their use then it can be frustrating trying to use an emulator.

Hi Vulpes,

That's excellent, thanks very much indeed my friend. All questions answered : )

Regards,

Ben : )

Thanks guys, that's brilliantly helpful. I've checked those links out as well : ) The info you've passed over is exactly what I needed to know, thank you : )

My second question is that if designing an app for Windows Phone 7, do Microsoft have pretty much the same way of going about things as Apple? So, for example, I understand that Apple have an approval process & if your app is deemed good enough, they'll stick it up on the App Store, even you're just an independent programmer working from your bedroom. Is this the same with Microsoft?

Thanks again, it's been a really, really brilliant help : )

Dan : )

For iPhone development, you'll have to use a Mac.  More details are at monotouch.net.

You can write iPhone apps in C# with MonoTouch.