Over the years, I have given many presentations on developing Windows Mobile applications. One thing that I have heard time and time again is that people have a hard time writing their first mobile application. I think sometimes people have a hard time taking those first steps. It is easy to think that it will take too much time, and that it will be too hard. But that is simply not the case.

But instead of telling people, I'm going to show them how easy it really is. The key here is simple: "Taking baby steps is better than taking no steps at all!"

I plan on writing 30 mobile applications in the next 30 days. I will publish both the executable and the source code for each application.

My goal is for each of these applications to be useful, interesting, and straight-forward. Someone considering writing their first Windows Mobile application should be able to look at these applications and "get it".

If you search, you can find tons of simple code to do specific tasks, like playing a message beep. You can even search and find code for fully developed applications, but these are too advanced for many developers, first starting out. What you'll have a harder time finding are simple applications, with source code, that can be the building blocks for new developer's understanding of mobile development. It's my hope that in the next 30 days I can do something to help with that.

Feedback

Please consider this entire series an open forum. I'd love to hear what you think, and what you want. Do you think this will help new mobile developers? Are you a new to mobile development? If so, what would most help you "get it"?