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Windows CE 3.0 Application Programming (With CD-ROM)

Windows CE 3.0 Application Programming (With CD-ROM)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Intelligent
Review: Book is written in an intelligent manner, so you get what you need - the essential. Other Win CE authors tell you what they know, this book tells you what you need to know.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: JUST API FOR CE
Review: Good book if you want to know about Win CE API Programming. Nothing about eVC++, eVB and UI which makes its content very poor. It should have been titled WIN CE API...

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Carefull...
Review: I ordered this book to help me migrate from development on Linux to development on Windows CE. I found errors in the first 10 minutes of reading! (Page 249, 1/986 and 1/147 are both wrong. Refer to the NMEA 0183 spec for details.)

Between the errors, the lack of coverage of PPC2002, and the blatent omission of anything interface specific, my recommendation is to wait for another book to get published. Especially if you want something that covers GUI - this does not.

Unfortunately, I must also say that this is the best book out there, at least that I've been able to find (WinCE/eVC++). So I guess that makes it a winner! ....but only by default.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Sometimes makes you dig for the info...
Review: I'm currently using the book to develop. It's a good book with plenty of examples to start you off. No white space and the examples are short and to the point. The only real grip I have is that it tends to occationally use the wrong word. For example, in Ch5 on Processs and Threads it say:

"An application can create additional threads..."

Call me picky, but technically the word should be 'process' not 'application'. An application (per the book) is the .exe in the object stores. Only when the application runs is a process create...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Book for Win32 Programmers
Review: I've found this book to be very handy, it covers many different sections of WinCE programming and is a great reference book. Its not a book your going to read from cover to cover, but its the one your going to grab when your sitting in front of your latest WinCE app and something isn't compiling correctly. As for WinCE 3.0 support, I haven't had a single problem getting any of the demo code to work on ANY WinCE 3.0 device.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great book on using win32 API in windows CE OS
Review: Note that he doesn't claim to cover GUI programming. It is great in its explanation of thread synchronization, accessing drivers, and differences between CE and desktop Windows.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Disappointing
Review: Surely a good book, the problem is that the cover page gives the wrong impression. In five points the content is declared, but two of them are summing up to one and a half pages! There is nothing about window handling or any other type of user interface, almost nothing about MFC, and nothing about using Embedded Visual C++! The book is only about systems programming in the Windows CE API, and that was not what could be expected.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Carefull...
Review: This book is a great Windows CE reference. The material and examples are comprehensive, clear and concise. But do not use it as an introduction to eVC++ because there is virtually nothing on the user interface or the basics of MFC. If you are a C++ or VC++ programmer, and you want to become functional in a hurry with Windows CE 3.0, I strongly recommend it. Also, unlike a previous reviewer, I found the author to be very responsive to questions.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great reference but not for beginners
Review: This book is a great Windows CE reference. The material and examples are comprehensive, clear and concise. But do not use it as an introduction to eVC++ because there is virtually nothing on the user interface or the basics of MFC. If you are a C++ or VC++ programmer, and you want to become functional in a hurry with Windows CE 3.0, I strongly recommend it. Also, unlike a previous reviewer, I found the author to be very responsive to questions.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Code does NOT work for Handheld PC 2000
Review: This book is all about backend services, on the back of the book itself it says that it goes BEYOND UI programming. It mentions how to use MFC to call the required APIs but it is NOT a WinCE MFC book.

Definetly recommend this book to anyone who has ALREADY known about MFC and Win32 programming, and want to get up to speed with what services are available for WinCE


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