- Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (April 10 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0072131500
- ISBN-13: 978-0072131505
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 18.2 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 934 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,087,654 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Build real-world applications for Windows CE using this comprehensive developer's guide. Combining both theory and practical advice, this book will show you how to develop ActiveX controls, use embedded databases, and learn features of good multi-threaded design. Also included are debugging tips and tricks.
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Engineer Your Way to Excellence
Develop a full range of applications for Microsoft-powered mobile devices. Tap into the rich array of reusable interface components available through the Windows CE operating system. Pocket PC Developer's Guide leads you through development of effective software designs and introduces a set of libraries and tools that significantly shortens your development time. In addition, this book provides a series of practical applications involving graphical user interfaces that effectively utilize the small screen space of the Pocket PC--including drawing and word processing programs, complex user interfaces, COM components, embedded databases, and multithread architectures.
- Understand Windows CE architecture
- Utilize platform-portable designs
- Develop readable code with classes
- Accommodate the Pocket PC display screen size
- Manage application and data memory
- Work with COM Objects
- Execute sound multithread designs
- Optimize and debug Pocket PC applications
- Effectively design a user interface using a state machine for reliable, deterministic execution behavior
- Implement an image processing program that rapidly performs edge detection
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Windows CE manages every version of the Pocket PC (PPC). Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Some sections have merit,
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This review is from: Pocket PC Developer's Guide (Paperback)
You should be aware that, in general, this book is NOT a very good book (it puts too much emphasis on the use of the author's individual programming quirks and applications). However, the sections on setting up a program so that you can build it for both the Desktop and the PockectPC environments have merit. But, as I recall, the implementation makes use of some kind of libraries found on the CD that comes with the book. Also, the implementation is for a C++ based programming environment, not a C#/CompactFramework environment - but the general approach should be the same. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Compact_Framework/
1.0 out of 5 stars
The worst programming book I have ever read,
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This review is from: Pocket PC Developer's Guide (Paperback)
I am a professional software engineer who was looking for specifics on CE development. In the course of my career I have read Stroustrup, Design Patterns, Algorithm books, you name it. I have never, ever, seen a book this awful. Dr. (!) Krell preaches about the "subtleties" of pocket pc interface design. Patronizes about the importance of being a user in order to understand UI's. He constantly refers back to his little, custom developed GUI framework whenever he discusses building UI's for CE, but doesn't make it clear when the function is in the Windows API or his little framework. He generalizes in a chapter about just what good software architecture means. His steps are laborious and often humourous ("Step 1. Launch embedded Visual C++").If you wish to waste money buy this book. I would give it a 0, but that's sadly not an option.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Useless,
By Gadgester "No Time, No Money" (Mother Earth) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Pocket PC Developer's Guide (Paperback)
Bought this book over a year ago and found it totally useless. The author presents some sort of framework on programming style, but doesn't say much about how to actually do programming tasks for the Pocket PC. This is one of the worst books I've bought.
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