[Resolved] Are compact framework applications usually this heavy?

[mendhak]

Hello, my first venture into mobile development. I've been fiddling around with simple forms in a smart device application (Windows Mobile 6). One thing I've noticed is that no matter how simple the application, the memory consumption is... large. Let me explain.

I created a simple form with a button on it. No code written yet. I created a CAB for it (release build), sent it over to the device, installed, ran it. Then I checked the task manager and it showed 300K!

Other applications are usually about 30K or 50K, but my simple form was about 300K. I was wondering, perhaps this is related to the compact framework being loaded as well, but a search showed me nothing. It's like nobody talks about it, perhaps you guys could have a look. Do you observe the same thing?