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by Douglas Boling (Author) "Since the classic The C Programming Language, programming books traditionally start with a "hello, world" program ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 550 pages
  • Publisher: Microsoft Press,U.S.; illustrated edition edition (Oct 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1572318562
  • ISBN-13: 978-1572318564
  • Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 18.7 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,108,857 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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With the growing popularity of the Windows CE platform, writing small, efficient applications is once again crucial. Doug Boling's Programming Microsoft Windows CE shows experienced Windows C programmers how to write lean-and-mean software for today's handheld PCs.

After a quick introduction, this text moves to a basic Windows CE program written in C. Throughout the book, the author provides detailed technical knowledge of both the Window CE platform and C API. He covers basic graphics programming, including bitmaps, fonts and basic GDI functions, and then moves the tour of Windows CE to input, whether through a keyboard, stylus, or mouse. Sections on control and dialogue box programming show what's different about the more restricted Windows CE platform as compared to ordinary Win32 programming.

The second half of the book presents some excellent information on issues specific to the Windows CE platform, including memory management, its new file system and new database APIs. A thorough tour of Windows CE communications (whether over the Internet via sockets or infrared ports) will benefit every potential developer. So will the material on the Registry, installing Windows CE applications from desktops, and co-ordinating work between multiple threads and processes.

The book finishes with some strategies for co-operating with the Windows CE shell providing helpful pointers for better program integration. --Richard Dragan, Amazon.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book,examples and comments., 2 Sep 1999
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This book has saved me at least six months searching,puzzlement and head scratching, I liked the consistent clear method used between all the examples. Although not MFC his style clarifies rather than clouds the issues.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a must for Windows CE application programmers, 29 Oct 1998
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars This is (so far) THE book on programming WindowsCE, 26 May 1999
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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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3.0 out of 5 stars Petzold is a better buy
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... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Doug's work is very well done, focus is on Win32 API not MFC
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4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book, with a strong procedural programming bias
An essential book for our project, but (and this my only criticism) the style feels very much as if we're going back almost ten years to the original Petzold. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding book for CE Programmers
Having had a shot programming with Microsoft's disastrous VB for CE toolkit, I finally bit the bullet and got the C++ kit and this book. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Vital resource -- should have been published a year ago!
At last, the definitive guide to programming Windows CE. You'll have to forget all about using MFC -- it looks as though the official position is to forget it -- but the examples... Read more
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