There currently aren't as many development tools for Pocket PC than for Palm OS. However, everyone should find their favorite language in the following table or by browsing the links.

Product Author Language(s) Desktop Version Mobile Version Has IDE License Comment PocketC Orbworks C Commercial Also available for Palm OS, for those who like cross-platform compatibility. eMbedded Visual Tools Microsoft C++ Visual Basic Freeware Includes a device emulator J2ME Sun Java Freeware Best way to develop cross-platform apps. Jeode Insignia Java Commercial Waba WabaSoft Java GPL CASL Wagware Systems Inc & Brainyware LLC Visual IDE Visual Basic-like Commercial Freeware with popup A crossplatform IDE for developing apps for Palm, PocketPC and Windows Satellite Forms PumaTech Visual Basic-like Commercial A solution for Rapid Application Development . NSBasic NS Basic Basic Commercial ANS Forth SP-Forth Forth       GPL Pocket Scheme Ben Goetter Lisp       Freeware Squeak Squeak Smalltalk       Open Source Python for Windows CE Mark Hammond Python       Freeware Pocket ASP Mode Zero ASP     Commercial ASP and HTML development