When you think of SMS messaging, you probably think about your mobile device. But what if you could SMS someone from the comfort of your own desktop? This article shows you two messaging applications: One application to write the messages on your desktop and one application to send the messages from your device.

SMS messaging may have it's drawbacks, but it's benefits make it a viable solution for many of today's enteprise applications. This article uses a sample hospital application to show you how to integrate SMS messaging using the .NET Compact Framework.

Explore the various options available on the .NET Compact Framework that allow your apps to connect with the outside world.

Enterprises take note: as handheld devices become both more capable and more user-friendly, they're also becoming "must-have" equipment for people who work away from the office, replacing their heavy laptops with smaller and lighter but still fully-functional equipment.

A fifth of the world's population will soon have a mobile device and access to the Internet. With that many potential users, is an explosion of mobile applications inevitable? If so, what technologies will lead the way in their development?

The release of Visual Studio 2008 also updates the .NET Compact Framework, with new tools, APIs, LINQ support and WCF features. Find out how these can help make your job easier.

The .NET Compact Framework's class libraries are sadly inadequate for developing full-featured Windows Mobile applications, sometimes forcing you to rely upon the problemtatic Platform Invoke. Enter Smart Device Framework (SDF), a group of extensions designed to pick up where the Compact Framework's class libraries leave off.

Got a client that's asking to send messages via SMS? If so, you know there's no easy way to do it without third-party software. Learn how to build your own image-sending SMS application using only the .NET Compact Framework.

Visual Studio 2005 is the premier development platform for Windows Mobile 5.0. This article explores its new capabilities in detail.

Windows SideShow, an auxiliary hardware display, gives users the ability to use PCs even when they are turned off—and developers get to provide the content.

Not only can you generate your own Sudoku puzzles with this mobile application, but you can solve them, too—even puzzles you enter from newspapers or books.

As speech-enabled applications become a core requirement for many enterprise and commercial applications, you'll need to become familiar with the Microsoft Speech Platform.

Use these flexible UncommonDialog dialog classes to lift the restrictions built into the CommonDialog classes delivered with the .NET Compact Framework.

Despite the fact that remoting is not currently supported in .NET Compact Framework applications running on the Smartphone 2003 platform, by using a third-party object request broker (ORB) you can interact with remote objects.

New mobile devices on store shelves all over the world are built to accommodate both landscape and portrait screen orientation and the good news is that the second edition of Windows Mobile 2003 supports this flexibility. The bad news is that it's not just yet a straightforward process, but we'll show you how to get the job done.

Learn how to change the text input modes and improvise the ContextMenu and TabControl controls using the Smartphone 2003 SDK for the .NET Compact Framework.

"Windows CE or Mobile Web?" The .NET world can steer you in two very opposite directions: .NET Compact Framework or ASP.NET Mobile Controls.

Using the visual drag-and-drop tools in Visual Studio is the easiest way to code controls but sometimes it's impractical, especially when working with applications meant for handheld devices. Learn how to hand-code new controls on the fly.

Replace the lackluster File Explorer that comes with the Pocket PC with one that better mimics Windows Explorer and learn to manipulate the .NET Compact Framework's TreeView control in the exchange.

Does Microsoft have a real development solution for handheld devices or will other vendors continue to grab the spotlight? Here in the first installment of Mobile CoDe.NET, we'll describe the OS choices and software development tools and we'll lay out the yellow brick road that you can follow to start building your own mobile solutions.