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Summary: This book is a must for Windows CE application programmers
Review: 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
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Summary: This book is a little bit old(-fashion)
Review: It covers only the previous versions of WinCE. The programming style is quite similar with good old Win 3.1 programming. It covers neither ActiveSync nor MFC. But it still remains useabel. Never the less i think the book of Chris Muench is more valuable (It covers also the new PocketPC).
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Summary: Petzold is a better buy
Review: Most of this book follows the model of Charles Petzold's "Programming Windows" series. Most of the emphasis on specific Windows CE topics is on areas of control and UI programming that more experienced Windows programmers will find fairly straightforward. I was disappointed in the books complete lack of Windows CE ActiveSync coverage, arguably one of the toughest aspects of Windows CE programming.
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Summary: almost completely useless
Review: Not entirely useless, but by no means good. There is an enormous amount of filler in this title. Most chapters contains 20+ pages of source code listing. That would be fine if the programs were illustrating a point or at least well-documented, but they seem to exist for the sole purpose of taking up space. In many cases the examples provided actually confuse the point rather than illustrating it. Worse, the example programs are a blend of ALL the techniques discussed in a chapter--sorting out the information relevant to the particular technique/concept you are interested in is next to impossible. (e.g. the Property Sheet example in chapter 4). In some rare cases it's possible to learn things by consulting this book, but when that happens it's almost always a case of "Oh, I didn't know that existed--now where do I go to find out how it works?" I've found no instances of clear explanation or illustration of concepts in the text. It's just an undifferentiated 500 page block of blah-blah, yadda-yadda. I've almost entirely abandoned it in favor of the (free) online documentation included with embedded C++.
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Summary: This is (so far) THE book on programming WindowsCE
Review: 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.
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Summary: This is (so far) THE book on programming WindowsCE
Review: 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.
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Summary: NO CD KEY FOUND WITH PRODUCT
Review: The book might be a really good book, but I wouldn't know! I did not receive a CD KEY with the install programs. I guess I can look at the pictures.
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Summary: completely useless
Review: This book gives very, very little insite to anyone actually interested in using eMbedded Visual C++ to write in the Windows CE environment. The author gives one paragraph explainations of subjects and then goes into 10 page programs using tons of functionality that he refuses to explain. Great for cut and paste. Horrible for anything else.
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