.Net and Devices

How does .Net support other, non-PC, devices

[xgene]

What is the current state of .Net support for other devices, PDAs, smart phones, etc.

[Xoc]

Microsoft just released the Beta for the .NET compact framework. This allows one to write programs for PDAs based on the PocketPC architecture using the same .NET code you'd use for the desktop (with some limitations). It consumes about 1.5 meg of memory on the PDA, which is pretty light for what it does. You can get the beta from the MSDN Universal release, or apply here: [msdn.microsoft.com ]

You can also just code WML or HTML web pages that download into the browser. There are features on ASP.NET that look at the user agent string and deliver the right kind of content based on what is doing the requesting.