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The Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Tool Kit adds documentation, sample code, header and library files, emulator images and tools to Visual Studio that let you build applications for Windows Mobile 6.5. This document contains important information about this package. For general information about writing software for Windows Mobile, please see the Windows Mobile Developer Center. The Windows Mobile 6 SDK must also be installed in order to use any of the Windows Mobile 6.5 Gesture API or samples.Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Tool Kit comes with the following Emulator Images:

• Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional Square Emulator
• Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional QVGA Emulator
• Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional WQVGA Emulator
• Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional VGA Emulator
• Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional WVGA Emulator
• Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard Square Emulator
• Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard QVGA Emulator

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A new set of APIs is being introduced that will enable application developers to take advantage of the new Windows Mobile 6.5 touch gesture framework. The gesture APIs allow an application to handle touch gesture input and provide a visually consistent experience with the rest of the device UI.Note that the gesture APIs are only available on the Windows Mobile Classic and Professional SKUs. The headers and libraries are installed in the Windows Mobile SDK\Pocket PC\ folder. Samples that make use of these APIs are installed into the Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Tool Kit\Samples\ folder.

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to April 2023.

Files
Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional Developer Tool Kit (CHS).msi
Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional Developer Tool Kit (ESN).msi
Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional Developer Tool Kit (FRA).msi
Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional Developer Tool Kit (GER).msi
Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional Developer Tool Kit (ITA).msi
Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional Developer Tool Kit (JPN).msi
Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional Developer Tool Kit (USA).msi
Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard Developer Tool Kit (ESN).msi
Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard Developer Tool Kit (CHS).msi
Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard Developer Tool Kit (FRA).msi
Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard Developer Tool Kit (GER).msi
Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard Developer Tool Kit (ITA).msi
Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard Developer Tool Kit (JPN).msi
Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard Developer Tool Kit (USA).msi

File sizes and hashes are retrieved from the Wayback Machine’s indexes. They may not match the latest versions of files hosted on Microsoft servers.

The following software is required. Please check each application's system requirements individually.

For integration with Visual Studio:

• Windows Mobile 6 SDKs

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