The Graphics Network

Microsoft originally released two development tools for the PocketPC. Embedded Visual Basic (eVB) is fast to work with, but uses a variant of VBScript rather than the full blown language, and this is somewhat limiting and very slow. For performance, Embedded Visual C++ is much better, sometimes 1000 times better, but of course is more complex to use and less forgiving. TGN has used both of these in combination in projects, and this gives a good strategy.

These days of course the .Net Compact Framework is the obvious choice, and the one TGN would be most likely to choose for future developments, using C# or Visual Basic. Having SQL Server available for pocket devices is very useful, but we've found that a lot of work needs to be done to optimize code for the kind of applications we've done where performance is critical. Doing things like caching results in memory rather than going back to the database improves speed by several orders of magnitude, and we've even written our own searching and sorting code to use with this cached data.