Hawaii Project Development Tools and Information

Microsoft Research's Hawaii Project involves building both web applications/services and mobile applications. While there are many platforms available for each of these, we have choosen to use either Windows Azure or IIS as the web application server and Windows Mobile 6.5 as the mobile platform. Whenever possible, we are also using the C# language and the .NET framework instead of native code. Our development environment and tool choices reflect these platform choices.

A note about availability: Many Colleges and Universities have programs whereby they (or their CS department) have a standing agreement with Microsoft for providing their students with free-of-charge access to Microsoft development tools via MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network). If your school isn't one of these, many of these tools are also available free-of-charge to students via Microsoft DreamSpark.

• MSDN: http://www.msdn.com
• DreamSpark: http://www.dreamspark.com

General:

• Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition Service Pack 1 (from MSDN or DreamSpark)
• .NET Framework Information: http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework
• .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Download: http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/aa569263.aspx

Windows Mobile 6.5 Development:

• Windows Mobile Developer Center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsmobile
• Core Downloads for Windows Mobile Development: http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/bb264327.aspx
  • Windows Mobile 6 Professional SDK: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=87437
  • Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 (for Vista) or Microsoft ActiveSync (for XP). Not required for Windows 7.
• .NET Compact Framework 3.5 Redistributable http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E3821449-3C6B-42F1-9FD9-0041345B3385

Web Application/Service using IIS:

• Windows Server 2008 R2 (from MSDN or DreamSpark)
• IIS 7.5 (included with Windows Server 2008 R2)

Web Application/Service using Windows Azure:

• Windows Azure Developer Center: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/developers
• Windows Azure SDK: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=772990DA-8926-4DB0-958F-95C1DA572C84
• Windows Azure SDK Online documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dd179367.aspx
• Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2008: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=128752
• Windows Azure Platform Training Kit: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=772990DA-8926-4DB0-958F-95C1DA572C84

Identification using Windows Live ID:

• Windows Live ID Web Authentication SDK: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=91761
• Windows Live ID Web Authentication Online Documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/bb676633.aspx
• All Windows LiveID SDKs: http://dev.live.com/liveid

Location using Hawaii Project Location Service:

• Location Service SDK: To be supplied.

Notification using Hawaii Project Notification Service:

• Notification Service SDK: To be supplied.

Mapping using Bing Maps (formerly known as Virtual Earth):

• Interactive SDK: http://www.microsoft.com/maps/isdk/ajax
• All Bing Maps SDKs (Ajax, Silverlight, Web Services, etc): http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dd877180.aspx