Running the Win32 Application
To execute the application using the Windows Mobile Emulator, from the Menu select Debug Ô Start Without Debugging. This will bring up the Emulator as shown in Figure 2 and run your program to display the message “PCQ Hello World App”. Once you click 'OK', you will see the Windows Mobile 6 desktop –
Figure 3.

Figure 4 New Project - MFC Application

Creating an MFC Project
Start Visual Studio 2005 and select File Ô New Ô Project. The dialog box shown in Figure 4 will be displayed. Make the following selections and click 'OK':
Project Type: Smart Device
Templates: MFC Smart Device
Application.
You can change the following as per your requirements. In my case, the choices are:
Name: PCQ_MFC_App
Location: D:\Project
Solution Name: PCQ_MFC_App
Create directory for solution: Yes

This will start the MFC Smart Device Application Wizard. Click 'Next' to go to the Platforms page and follow the steps as given in the Win32 section for selecting the Windows Mobile 6 Professional SDK. Click 'Next' and follow steps
given for each of the following dialog boxes:

• Application Type – No Change – Click 'Next'
• Document Template Strings – No Change – Click 'Next'
• User Interface Features – change 'Command Bar' to 'Menus and Buttons' – Click 'Next'
• Advanced Features – Click 'Finish'

This wizard will generate all necessary files and resources.

Figure 5 PCQ MFC Application

Modifying the Code for MFC Application
Search for the function CPCQ_MFC_AppView::OnDraw() in the file PCQ_MFC_AppView.cpp and locate the following lines:

CPCQ_MFC_AppDoc* pDoc = GetDocument();
ASSERT_VALID(pDoc);

// TODO: add draw code for native data here

Insert the following code after the 'TODO' comment line:

CString szText("PCQ Hello App - MFC");
CRect rect;
rect.left = 20;
rect.top = 30;
rect.right = 150;
rect.bottom = 50;

pDC->DrawTextW( szText, rect, 0);

From the Menu select Build Ô Build Solution. If everything has been done correctly, you will see the following message in the output box:

===== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped =====

Figure 6 Excel Mobile

Executing the MFC Application
To execute the application using Windows Mobile Emulator, from the Menu select Debug Ô Start Without Debugging. This will bring up the Emulator as shown in Figure 5 and run your program to display the message “PCQ Hello App - MFC”.

Once you click the 'X' on the top right corner, you will see the Windows Mobile 6 desktop. You can explore the Windows Mobile 6 features such as Office Mobile. Click on Windows logo on the top left corner and select Office Mobile. Click on Excel Mobile and you'll see the screen as in Figure 6.

Note: Clicking on 'X', does not usually 'exit' the application. It just closes the application window. So, if you want a re-test, close the Emulator and run the application again.

Deploying applications on Windows Mobile devices
The process of deploying applications on Windows Mobile devices requires the creation of a Cabinet (.cab) file. This CAB file can be installed through the Active Sync/Windows Mobile Device Center tools. The complete process is given online on the MSDN website. You can check the same at http://tinyurl.com/773zkp.

Conclusion
Windows Mobile is being promoted heavily by Microsoft and various OEMs. The platform provides a very rich set of tools, APIs, libraries, frameworks and middleware, which is a subset of Microsoft technologies available on the Desktop. There is a large section of developers with a strong expertise in Microsoft technologies on Desktops, who can easily use the development tools, SDK and Emulator provided for Windows Mobile to learn the differences and create amazing applications for mobile devices running Windows Mobile 6.

This is an opportunity for developers to have a lot of fun while developing expertise at the same time in the fast growing mobile device arena. They can develop applications in their spare time and make them available for download through websites such as Download.com (http://www.download.com/ mobile/). They would get valuable feedback and if the application is a hit, they can make money too.