Red Five Labs has
released their implementation of the .NET Compact Framework 1.0 for
Nokia S60 smartphones. This is a very cool development that holds out
some real promise for attracting developers to the hugely popular, but
somewhat application-shy S60 platform. Some salient points:
- They’re releasing it with a no-royalties runtime. Perfect.
- It’s
the real thing: managed code, the CLR, Visual Studio 2003/05 tools,
your choice of C# or VB.NET, binary compatibility with apps targeted
for Windows Mobile- They used some of the code from the Mono
project for this. Don’t be surprised if Linux platforms like ALP become
their next target.
I’m speechless. Are there any good .Net applications out there? I haven’t even tried looking.
I’m still waiting for someone to bring txtman over to S60. It hurts my brain trying to understand why such an application (OR built in S60 feature) hasn’t been released yet on today’s most popular smart phone platform.