Pocket PC Developer's Guide

By: Bruce E. Krell

This title offers users a way to connect to essential information while away from the office. It shows how to build real-world applications for the growing Pocket PC market and covers creating... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072131500
• ISBN13: 9780072131505
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.2" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Great for starting

I purchased Programming Microsoft Windows CE, and was blown away. I could not follow the examples, and did not know what was going on. Pocket PC Developer's Guide on the other hand is perfect for someone just starting like me. I have not programmed in the Windows environment, and this book was just what i needed to understand how to do so. I am VERY happy with this book. If you want to learn to program your pocket pc, this book is the perfect place to start.

great book

This book is suitable for anyone with a little C++programming experience who wants to create softwarefor the WindowsCE platform, Pocket PC Developer'sguide provides a slickly packaged and approachabletutorial that will get you started creatingstate-of-the-art WindowsCE programs.The smart presentation style and easy-to-understoodcode examples help make this text an excellentresource. Beginning with short examples illustratingthe actual Visual C++ tools in action, the authorgets you started with simple minimal GUI programs andother comprehensible examples. Rather than justlisting APIs and classes, the emphasis is on hands-onWindowsCE development. This book covers the basic graphic system built-inWindowsCE. Subsequent sections look at user interfacedesign, writing user friendly applications . Along theway, the author emphasizes several programmingmethodology which is helpful for not only WindowsCEprogrammers . Later chapters look at advancedmultithreading and synchronization, utilizing COMcomponents which is absolutely crucial for developingsuccessful commercial products. While there are comparably fewer books on PocketPCcompared to the Windows platform, readers are lucky tohave this one available. Anyone who wants to learnWindowsCE programming will be well served by thisbook. It's a fine tutorial that earns high marks forits approachable, clear examples and an excellentpresentation by an author who knows his stuff and,better yet, knows how to teach it to others.

A must have for serious Pocket PC Developers

Dr. Krell's great insight in the Pocket PC world and his ability to bring this knowledge to us developers in a clear, easy to understand, yet powerful way, makes this book a 'must have' for any serious Pocket PC developer. Dr. Krell leads us from simple to complex examples in a logical way that allows us to understand and adapt them to our own development requirements.