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The indispensable guide to writing clean CE applications, including real–world tips, techniques, and workarounds.
Microsoft′s Windows CE operating system is quickly finding its way into a wide variety of information appliances like Handheld and Palm–size PCs, television set top boxes, smart telephones, and electronic books. Robert Burdick gives you a thorough tutorial for programming the essential features of Windows CE. Using a complete sample application, each chapter provides comprehensive coverage of the programming techniques required to take advantage of a specific Windows CE feature. As Windows CE continues to evolve into the industry standard for information appliances and mobile computing platforms, Essential Windows CE Application Programming will prove to be your most valuable programming resource. Inside you will find:
∗ A look behind the curtain at the architecture of the Windows CE operating system.
∗ Programming building blocks like Windows CE controls and dialog boxes.
∗ In–depth insight into the desktop connectivity features of Windows CE.
∗ Complete coverage of Windows CE persistent storage programming.
∗ Custom user–interface programming.
∗ Lessons for programming Windows CE at the API level.
∗ Extensive samples of Windows CE application code.
On the CD–ROM you′ll find:
∗ Source code for all sample programs in the book.
Synopsis
Microsoft's future involves small, versatile, and portable devices that integrate into existing networks. According to them, soon people will all carry data, E-mail, telephones, browsers, and pagers in a single appliance that slips into a purse or a pocket. The newly developed operating system that will transform this vision into working reality is called Windows CE, and is already a fast-growing operating system. Written for the application developer instead of the user, this book covers advanced and industrial topics at a sophisticated level. It contains the following highlights: networking Windows CE; embedded and systems-level development; memory management; keyboard input for non-keyboard devices; programming tools; Internet topics; unicode text fundamentals (including internationalization and true type fonts); and programming with MFC. This book contains real-world tips and techniques including sidebars for known bugs and workarounds for the most important areas of development which are not currently supported by CE itself.
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