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Summary: Author can't decide on C or Visual Basic...
Review: Many of the examples in this book are in C, and many are in Visual Basic! If you only want to learn using one of these languages, this book is useless! The author needs to do two books (one for C and one for VB) or have every example in both languages. Extremely disappointing. Back to Amazon it goes!
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Summary: moderately detailed book
Review: There are some useful information in this book, however, this book does not go into great details on each particular subject. The section on writing an activesync provider, as an example, is really scant. The book merely points out what code to change in a cookbook method without ever explaining why its doing it, or explaining the whole architecture clearly for that matter. IF you've ever read LINUX HOWTO materials, you'll know what I mean. It shows you what to do, but it doesn't explain to you why you're doing it.The most useful chapter is the last chapter (11 - Miscellaneous topics). As for the rest of the chapters, you can live by reading the online manuals.
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Summary: moderately detailed book
Review: There are some useful information in this book, however, this book does not go into great details on each particular subject. The section on writing an activesync provider, as an example, is really scant. The book merely points out what code to change in a cookbook method without ever explaining why its doing it, or explaining the whole architecture clearly for that matter. IF you've ever read LINUX HOWTO materials, you'll know what I mean. It shows you what to do, but it doesn't explain to you why you're doing it. The most useful chapter is the last chapter (11 - Miscellaneous topics). As for the rest of the chapters, you can live by reading the online manuals.
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Summary: Don't buy this book if you want to program in eVB
Review: This book advertises that it contains information about embedded Visual Basic. Like, only 1% of the book is about eVB. All the examples and code is for embedded C++, which is fine if that's what you are looking for. The author even acknowledges in the text of the book that discussion about eVB will not be covered, so why does the book say that it talks about eVB? I bought this book and wasted my money. Buyer Beware.
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Summary: Don't buy this book if you want to program in eVB
Review: This book advertises that it contains information about embedded Visual Basic. Like, only 1% of the book is about eVB. All the examples and code is for embedded C++, which is fine if that's what you are looking for. The author even acknowledges in the text of the book that discussion about eVB will not be covered, so why does the book say that it talks about eVB? I bought this book and wasted my money. Buyer Beware.
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Summary: Must be Windows Expert
Review: This book is a poor choice if you want to learn to program in the Pocket PC environment. The back cover calls this a "practical guide" but the book spends most of the first six chapters describing how Windows CE programming evolved from Windows programming. You must be fluent in Windows application development in C++ for this book to be useful. The examples are poor and do not work with the Visual Tools software available at the Microsoft site.
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Summary: Must be Windows Expert
Review: This book is a poor choice if you want to learn to program in the Pocket PC environment. The back cover calls this a "practical guide" but the book spends most of the first six chapters describing how Windows CE programming evolved from Windows programming. You must be fluent in Windows application development in C++ for this book to be useful. The examples are poor and do not work with the Visual Tools software available at the Microsoft site.
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Summary: Must be Windows Expert
Review: This book is a poor choice if you want to learn to program in the Pocket PC environment. The back cover calls this a "practical guide" but the book spends most of the first six chapters describing how Windows CE programming evolved from Windows programming. You must be fluent in Windows application development in C++ for this book to be useful. The examples are poor and do not work with the Visual Tools software available at the Microsoft site.
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Summary: Great reference book for Winows CE developers
Review: This book is a very good reference book for me, an experienced developer who has no Windows CE background and didn't work on Windows platform for the last few years. The Chapter 9 Remote and Connectivity was the chapter I found the most useful part. I could set up my Compaq iPAQ to communicate with my desktop painlessly using the sample codes.
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Summary: Essential for WinCE Application Developers
Review: This book provides much information on the differences between various versions of WinCE(1.0,2.0,2.11,2.12,3.0), WinCE hardware platforms(at least 4), and the various WinCE development tools (embedded visual toolkit 3.0,Embedded VB and VC addons for VS 6). The book documents desktop-WinCE interactions and dependencies and also programming 'gotchas' stemming from all these differences that programmers will save much time and aggravation by avoiding. This is critical information for programmers developing WinCE applications.
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