Making Win32 Applications Mobile

In an increasingly mobile world, millions of developers withWindows programming experience need to quickly transfer theirskills to creating compact, asynchronous CE applications. This bookpresents a roadmap to guide developers through the intricate tasksof porting and reworking Win32 applications to enable them to runefficiently and usefully on Windows CE-based mobile devices. Presents a set of metrics for developers to determine when andhow best to proceed in porting Win32 applications Shows developers how to understand the embedded-system biasinherent in Windows CE and how to write applications that use thisas a strength* Covers Unicode, which is mandatory for Windows CE, and explainshow to consider the effect of various screen resolutions

Autorentext
NANCY NICOLAISEN is a software engineering consultant and trainer, currently specializing in Windows CE. Her firm, n2 software engineering, has recently released Field Trip, a forms-based data collection program for handheld devices. Nicolaisen is the author of two previous books, has contributed regularly to Dr. Dobb's Journal, Database Advisor, PC Magazine, and Byte, and is the former Development Tools columnist for Computer Shopper.

About Gearhead Press
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Klappentext
A key resource to learn how to repurpose Windows applications for handheld devices

When handheld computers were power-hungry and memory-poor, synchronizing calendars and perhaps reading e-mail were all the applications most people needed. Now that handhelds have more power than first-generation desktop computers, the opportunity to do more than offer subsets of preexisting information is wide open. Enter Windows CE, a subset of Windows that has been optimized for handheld devices. In this book, experienced CE developer Nancy Nicolaisen provides an ideal reference and road map for directly porting Win32 applications when it's possible, and a set of metrics that can be used to determine how best to proceed when it isn't.

In addition, Nicolaisen:

• Explains how the "subset" of Windows CE APIs diverges from the standard Win32 set
• Shows you how to understand the embedded-system "bias" inherent in Windows CE
• Demonstrates how to write applications that use this bias as a strength
• Covers Unicode, which is mandatory for Windows CE (but optional in Win32)

• Explains how to consider the effect of various screen resolutions

  The companion web site contains all source code from the book.

Zusammenfassung
In an increasingly mobile world, millions of developers with Windows programming experience need to quickly transfer their skills to creating compact, asynchronous CE applications. This book presents a roadmap to guide developers through the intricate tasks of porting and reworking Win32 applications to enable them to run efficiently and usefully on Windows CE-based mobile devices.

• Presents a set of metrics for developers to determine when and how best to proceed in porting Win32 applications
• Shows developers how to understand the embedded-system bias inherent in Windows CE and how to write applications that use this as a strength
• Covers Unicode, which is mandatory for Windows CE, and explains how to consider the effect of various screen resolutions

Inhalt
Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

PART I: ADAPTING APPLICATION APPEARANCE TO WINDOWS CE.

User Interface.

A Better Approach to Forms.

Handling Graphical Input and Output.

Handling Stylus Input.

The Windows CE Shell.

PART II: TRANSLATING WIN32 APPLICATION BEHAVIORS TO WINDOWS CE.

Writing Memory-Efficient CE Applications.

Using the Windows CE Registry.

File Handling, File Access, and Data Portability.

A CE Database Primer.

CE Power Conservation Strategies.

PART III: POWER TOOLS.

Connecting to CE From the Desktop.

RAPI and Remote Database Access.

Remote Presentations With RAPI and the HTML Viewer Control.

Appendix A: Converting Help Files.

Appendix B: Debugging and Validation Tools.

Appendix C: Saving Memory by "Duncanizing".

Index.