Advice please

[TangerineTractor]

Greetings all

I'm an XDA veteran, and have had an idea for an application I'd like to develop. I have programming skills, mainly in VB6.

So my question is, what application/language is best/simplest for developing my app on WIndows Mobile? The main criteria I have is that I want to be able to read data from and write data to a remote windows based pc - I'm assuming that I'm going to do that via wifi or bluetooth networking.

I'm "between jobs" at the moment, so looking for a development platform that won't cost me much, if anything. I intend to make my application initially as free/donateware - it's something I need, but may be useful to others, but I don't want the hassle of trying to make it secure, serial numbers etc, for it to end up cracked on a warez site!

So what's the best development tool for PC/Windows Mobile development?

Thanks in advance

 

[X-BLADE™]

Are you looking to develop for Window Phone 7 or Windows Mobile 6.x?

This section is for WP7 development only, if you are looking for the latter, here is the right section http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=523

You can program in VB/C++/C# for WM 6.x using Visual studio, I'm unaware of other tools. For WP7, it is strictly C# with Silverlight (for applications) using Visual studio 2010 (You can get the express version free)

Here is a good start http://developer.windowsphone.com/

 

[TangerineTractor]

WM6 Really - Ill post in the other forum, sorry!