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Windows Mobile Development No Longer Free

Posted by timothy on from the listen-to-your-inner-rms dept.

Jacco de Leeuw writes "Windows Mobile developers have enjoyed free development tools like the eMbedded Visual Tools and that in turn has helped popularize Windows Mobile devices and a number of free or cheap applications. But now the SDK for the upcoming Windows Mobile 5.0 has a number of 'technical (not political) dependencies' on Visual Studio 2005, which starts at $299. Is it time for an open source Windows Mobile toolchain?"

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  1. You do realize... by Johnny+Doughnuts · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can get Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 for free right now.