Developing applications for Windows Mobile for non-programmers....?

Question

I want to write an application that will run on Windows Mobile. I have zero programming experience. The program could probably be written in something non-platform specific like Java ... it will simply gather information from a database and display it on the Today screen. But I just want to create one app, I'm not really looking to get into programming or spend $$$$ on something like Visual Studio. Any ideas on a good app for dooing this? I'd be happiest with some sort of WYSIWYG format along the lines of Dreamweaver where you can use templates and tweak if you need to, but this is not necessary.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, that's kind of like saying you would like to perform surgery without getting into medicine.

If you want to develop applications, you pretty much have to be a developer - there is no getting around it. Now, accessing a database and displaying some data from it isn't complicated work - probably not more than 10-20 lines of code.

But then a tonsillectomy is a simple surgery - I couldn't perform it, though.

An alternative to programming without programming abilities would be to spec your app, and then put it up for bid on rentacoder.

http://www.rentacoder.com/

You could also look at codeplex and see if someone else had the idea for your application already.

http://www.codeplex.com/

Answer 2

After installing jdk for application development. you need to set the environment variable i.e: PATH: javaroot/bin CLASSPATH: javaroot Also set JAVAHOME: javaroot Sometime the application needs this env too to identify the type of class is java... /*javaroot - is the location where in u have installed your jdk tool, as u have alrready mentioned in your question*/ After doing the above pre-requisites try runnung your application again. I am sure this it will going to work for sure...