If you own a Pocket PC device, or any Windows Mobile based device (i.e. PDA phone) and you know how to code, you start feeling the urge to develop for it. The possibilities seem endless: highly portable, natural (touch screen) interface, integrated mobile communications (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPRS, 3G, you-name-it), camera, GPS... it's all there, ready to be combined in fun ways.

Now that you want to use your skills to that end, this seems impossible without spending big bucks on Microsoft's Visual Studio (I assume you don't use pirated software, right?). The Express editions are fine for small to medium sized desktop apps, but there's no support for .NET Compact Framework. You are stuck, right?

Well, actually, not exactly.