Programming Microsoft Windows Ce

By Douglas Boling

Book Overview

CE is an entirely new operating system, compact and portable, built from the ground up for exciting new devices, including Handheld PCs, "wallet" PCs, and DVD players. This book is written to guide... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735614431
• ISBN13: 9780735614437
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 1040 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.4" x 1.9" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Pretty cool book in Windows CE programming

I bought the first edition right before the second edition came out. The second one has a lot more coverage of more contemporary topics and I liked it a lot better. There isn't an abundance of different examples available for developers but this book helps bridge the gap. If you are doing CE development, I think you'll appreciate this book.Billbill@devbuzz.com

If you are writting CE Software you want this book.

Doug has put together the best CE book I have seen so far. This book explains many tricky points in programming for CE. From how to hook into ActiveSync, to how to correctly capture those pesky mousepoints, to programming those buttons on the bottom of the unit. Whether you are using Pocket PC, Palm-Sized or Handheld you will find this book an invaluable resource. I do!!

This is (so far) THE book on programming WindowsCE

Of all the books I looked at for Windows CE programming, this was by far the best. If you've read Petzold's Programming Windows, you'll feel right at home. Has the same style of writing & examples. Easy to pick up for even the novice C/C++ programmer.All code is written in C. Doesn't use the Windows CE SDK, MFC, or ATL.

Doug's work is very well done, focus is on Win32 API not MFC

Doug's book is professional, clear and easy to follow through excellent examples and plentiful sample source code. If you're working with CE or thinking about it, you can't afford to miss this book. Doug's attention to detail is exemplary and his CE knowledge is strong and comes out in this fine effort. Don't expect anything but SDK level code...just WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN here folks! SIP and SHELL topics are just some of the gems found inside this comprehensive CE book.

This book is a must for Windows CE application programmers

If you want to know anything about how to write a Windows CE application using Microsoft's Visual C/C++ you should acquire this book. The book is a whopping 854 pages of valuable programming information. It's not just ramblings about nothing like so many programming books are.All of the usual Windows API programming topics covered along with the new Windows CE related ones such as memory management, Object Store for files, databases, and registry (most Windows CE devices have no rotating memory), processes and threads, Windows CE networking, desktop / Windows CE communications, shell programming, system programming, and COM basics (barely).The book will save you countless hours when writing Windows CE applications. I can tell that the author, Doug Boling, worked long and hard to put a complete Windows CE application development reference together.The book provides a CD-ROM containing all the source code from the book along with the Developer Studio project files. According to the author, the examples are Windows CE 2.0 compatible. Also included on the CD-ROM are the platform SDK's for the Handheld/PC and the Palm/PC Windows CE devices.Programming Microsoft Windows CE does not cover Windows CE operating system configuration builds using Microsoft's Windows CE Embedded Toolkit for Visual C++ 5.0 (Embedded Toolkit) along with the Embedded Development Kit (EDK). This is another topic for another book yet to be published.How to perform Windows CE operating system configuration builds is a subject yet to be decently covered in a text book. The book Inside Microsoft Windows CE by John Murray briefly touches on this topic.As a new Windows CE developer, you should not attempt to write applications without this book. I wish it had been available six months ago when I first attempted to develop a WinCE application.I am not affiliated with the author or Microsoft by any means or relationship. The views here are strictly mine.Pete Mackie, Seaquest Software