SmartCalc, A scientific calculator for SmartPhone.

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Introduction

This lite calculator, written in VB.NET, not only can be useful for installing on your smartphone as a real powerful scientific calculator, but also, can be used for learning some good ideas which I've learnt while developing it.

Background

Although I have no Smartphone, Once I decided to develop a nice and useful calculator to see how .NET compact framework works on a real Smartphone, [ since after a while i could find a real Smartphone to get this tiny calculator installed on. ].

the result can be interesting, specially for those decided to write their first .NET compact framework application.

Points of Interest

When I decided to develop, I was thinking that .NET compact framework, has some namespaces and classes, which might be used for runtime compiling, in-memory compiling, and runtime evaluating mathematics [ codes, in general ], just like .NET framework has. but I'd found out that there is no !, so decided to find a solution for doing that. many many classes were written in VB.NET and C#, which could do that, but all of them have dependencies to Microsoft.NET, not Microsoft Compact.NET. after searching and searching and searching ... I finally found Math.NET library, which was developed in C# and under license of GPL [open source]. yupp ! this one, finally solved my problem.

I used Math.NET Classic cause of its simplicity and lightness. More and more functions and routines could be found in this framework, and could be used to extend SmartCalc's functionalities.

I'll be glad to be informed of any changes you may make in SmartCalc. Also, I would be very thankful if you could share the changed source with me.

References

• Math.NET : http://mathnet.opensourcedotnet.info/

History

Version 1.0 : 12th Feb. 2007