.NET Compact Framework
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The Microsoft .NET Compact Framework is a version of the .NET Framework that is designed to run on mobile devices such as PDAs, mobile phones and set-top boxes. The .NET Compact Framework uses some of the same class libraries as the full .NET Framework and also a few libraries designed specifically for mobile devices such as Windows CE InputPanel.
It is possible to develop applications which use the .NET Compact Framework in Visual Studio.NET 2003 or in Visual Studio 2005, in C# or Visual Basic.NET. The resulting applications are designed to run on a special, mobile-device, high performance JIT compiler.
To be able to run applications powered by the .NET Compact Framework, the platform must support the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework runtime. Some operating systems which do include Windows CE.NET, Windows CE 4.1, Microsoft Pocket PC, Microsoft Pocket PC 2002 and Smartphone 2003. .NET Compact Framework applications may be also run on the desktop computers with full .NET Framework, because the executable files are binary compatible.
| Architecture: | Common Language Infrastructure • .NET assembly • .NET metadata • Base Class Library |
| Common Language Infrastructure: | Common Language Runtime • Common Type System • Common Intermediate Language • Virtual Execution System |
| Languages: | C# • Visual Basic .NET • C++/CLI (Managed) • J# • JScript .NET • Windows PowerShell • IronPython • F# |
| Windows Foundations: | Presentation • Communication • Workflow • CardSpace |
| Related: | Windows Forms • ASP.NET • ADO.NET • .NET Remoting • XAML |
| Other Implementations: | .NET Compact Framework • .NET Micro Framework • Shared Source CLI • Portable.NET • Mono |
| Comparison: | C# vs. Java • C# vs. VB.NET |
