On April 24th, Microsoft released the .Net Compact Framework development tools as a fully built-in part of the Visual Studio development system. This was extremely important in the "PDA war" and a strong move to not only start making a serious impact on Palm market share but also to lay to rest the "PDAs are dead" impression.
I have been coding Windows programs for a long time, and the few times I had to code for a handheld were simply a major pain in the butt. It wasn't the OS; it was the tools. You had to work directly and exclusively in the most difficult and tedious lowest-level languages with the fewest developers, and lacked access to any of the bells or whistles of a RAD tool. That made development take a long time. (There are scaled-down easy tools, but you can't do anything worthwhile with them.)
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