Appforge ships Crossfire

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Luiz Miranda

Yep. A little late, but ...

"AppForge, Inc., the leader in multi-platform mobile and wireless
application development solutions, today announced shipment of Crossfire,
AppForge's mobile and wireless application development environment for the
Microsoft .NET platform. Crossfire enables the growing community of .NET
developers to design, develop and deploy custom applications for mobile
devices with greater speed and efficiency."

I still don't figure out what crossfire is for sure, but it look
interesting.

I'm downloading my demo version now.

Luiz
 
Don't you hate that? Big splash, but no idea what the heck the product
*is*. Kind of like the drug ads on TV in the US. "Ask your doctor if XYZ
is right for you." Well, *what is it?* It might be to lower my
cholesterol, keep me from being depressed, stop me from having heartburn, or
keep my allergies under control. I *am* qualified to decide if I need one
of those things; just tell me what the stuff does.

Paul T.
 
Andy has posted an overview here:-
http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/index.php?action=expand,23487

And there is a trial version available too (I guess the vague information is
to force people to try it!)

The downside I see to this is while it uses the powerful Visual Studio IDE
it is limited to Visual Basic code and a class library specific to the
crossfire range, so you'll be writing code specifically designed for the
crossfire architecture.
That said I'll check out the trial version...

Peter

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Windows Embedded MVP
OpenNETCF.org Senior Advisor
www.inthehand.com | www.opennetcf.org
 
Yep.
My interpretation is that it's basically a plugin for Visual Studio.NET that
lets you develop against a version of MobileVB
with Visual Basic.NET syntax...I suppose that could be thought of as "VB 7"
to reduce confusion. The mistake would be for anyone to think this was a way
of bringing .NET to Palm OS for instance or anything like that, since .NET
as such is not involved.

It's certainly an interesting option for people targetting non-CE operating
systems, but I'm not going to get all excited about it myself.
 
Yes, to be *very* specific, it does not target the .NET Compact Framework,
which is something the marketing collateral is very ambiguous about. Also be
careful about the list of features they take credit for because most devices
only support a few of them (they have it as footnote). The only thing ".NET"
about this release is that it integrates with Visual Studio .NET, which is
actually a very big thing :-)
 
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