Is it possible to program a BlackBerry smartphone using C# and managed code?

Question

Is there any way possible to run C# code on a BlackBerry OS smartphone? I've got some Windows Mobile 5.x/6.0 frameworks written in C# that my team needs to "port" to various smartphone platform. We're looking at the following smartphone OS's:

• Windows Phone 7 - VS 2010, Windows Phone Developer Tool CTP, Silverlight, XNA
• iOS - MonoTouch, MonoDevelop IDE
• Android - MonoDroid (when released), MonoDevelop IDE, Mono Tools for Visual Studio
• BlackBerry OS - ???

Research didn't turn up any other programming options for BlackBerry OS but Java/J2ME. I know it's a long shot but was hoping someone here might know of some other options. At this point, I'd even consider a C#-to-Java translator.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

No, your only options for BlackBerry apps are:

1. J2ME/CLDC native app
2. BlackBerry widget using Javascript/HTML

Answer 2

Maybe soon, this is from august 09, so maybe late summer?.

We’ve been gathering details over the past month or so on this, and it’s pretty much confirmed: Research In Motion is planning on integrating full Flash and Microsoft Silverlight support into their BlackBerry web browser. Read that again boys and girls — full Flash support, not Flash lite. You know when the word “planning” is used in the same sentence as RIM, however, that it probably means it’s a while away. And it is. We’ve been told this won’t happen until next summer or right before it as RIM needs their devices to be more beefed up as well as have access to higher data speeds for this to work effectively (HSPA and LTE). RIM has already achieved over 10Mbps downloads on next generation BlackBerrys in the test labs with test LTE equipment so it’s looking good, folks.

Answer 3

http://code.google.com/p/csharpblackberry/