Windows Mobile Starter Kits are fully functional sample applications. Each sample is complete and contains its own documentation, so you can get started right away.

Starter Kits

* MSDN Starter Kit Home
* TabbedWebBrowser
* WMPStatusPlugin
* DexMobile
* BuildYourOwnStarterKit

How to Install a Starter Kit

Before you begin, you must have Visual Studio 2005 and the Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC or Smartphone SDK already installed on your computer. Then, select the Starter Kit of your choice, click on download and select Save.

Note: You must accept the End User License Agreement below before installing and using the Starter Kit.

Visual C# and Visual Basic.NET Starter Kits

When you launch the downloaded file, the Starter Kit will be installed as a project template inside Visual Studio. You can them use the Starter Kit by creating a new Visual Studio Project, and selecting the project type from Visual C# (or Visual Basic) / Starter Kits. Once a Starter Kit project has been created, online documentation is automatically displayed.

Visual C++ Starter Kits

Starter Kits written in Visual C++ are presented in standard Visual Studio project format, stored in a zip archive. Unzip the file to a know location, and then load the project into Visual Studio. Documentation for the Starter Kit is contained within the project as an HTML file - to read it, right-click on the .htm file in the Documentation folder in the Solution Explorer, and select View in Browser.

Using the Starter Kit

To build and run the Starter Kit, press F5. By default this will use the relevant emulator to deploy and launch the application

What would make a good Starter Kit?

You tell us!