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Is .NET CF Headed Toward J2ME?
August 21, 2006
AddressOf has a long post that talks about the modifications being made to the .NET Compact Framework to run on XBox 360. They're taking out the VB namespace, and AddressOf (being a VB-centric blog) is taking issue with that. Looking past the C# vs VB tone of the post, I can't help but notice how this is similar to the whole J2ME problem that Java has. Namely, how J2ME is split into the CDC and cLdc specs which are both compact versions of the Java runtime, but targetted at different devices.
I say problem because this sort of split creates the exactly the kind of issues that AddressOf is blogging about. Sounds like Microsoft is taking a similar path now by forking .NET CF. And it's not 100% clear from the post, but according to this, you may only be able to write .NET CF for Xbox 360 using C#. Anyway, aside from an interesting high-level architecture note it doesn't really bother me. I like C# and being able to write for XBox is still way cool.
August 21, 2006 at 10:30 AM in General | Permalink
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