Pocket PC Developer's Guide (Application Development S.)

This title offers users a way to connect to essential information while away from the office. It shows how to build real-world applications for the growing Pocket PC market and covers creating complete applications by mixing theory and practice.

Engineer Your Way to Excellence

Develop a full range of applications for Microsoft-powered mobile devices. Tap into the rich array of reusable interface components available through the Windows CE operating system. "Pocket PC Developer's Guide leads you through development of effective software designs and introduces a set of libraries and tools that significantly shortens your development time. In addition, this book provides a series of practical applications involving graphical user interfaces that effectively utilize the small screen space of the Pocket PC--including drawing and word processing programs, complex user interfaces, COM components, embedded databases, and multithread architectures.Understand Windows CE architecture Utilize platform-portable designs Develop readable code with classes Accommodate the Pocket PC display screen size Manage application and data memory Work with COM Objects Execute sound multithread designs Optimize and debug Pocket PC applications Effectively design a user interface using a state machine for reliable, deterministic execution behavior Implement an image processing program that rapidly performs edge detection