Professional Visual Basic Windows CE Programming

What is this book about?

The market for handheld PC applications is poised for massive growth; but holding all H/PCs back has been the complexity and outright lack of development tools to build these applications. Visual Basic for Windows CE meets that need by allowing existing VB programmers to add CE clients to their applications and databases.

This book provides you with the expertise and techniques you'll need to develop applications for the handheld computer using the Visual Basic for Windows CE Toolkit. The VBCE Toolkit combines the rapid development environment of Visual Basic with the features of Windows CE.

The book will take you through the features of the VBCE Toolkit, including ADO CE; and step-by-step, it will help you to avoid many of the common pitfalls of using the Toolkit. It will also show you how to get the most out of the VBCE language, so you can write professional CE-compatiable applications.

Who is this book for?

The book assumes that the main audience will already be VB proficient and cuts right to the chase providing all the information needed to create commercial quality CE applications. To use this book, you'll need a PC running Windows NT 4.0, Visual Basic 5.0 and the Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic.

What does this book cover?

• How to work with the Visual Basic for CE add-in, from the creation of new projects, through to their testing and distribution
• A run through of the ActiveX controls expansion set, including six demonstration programs
• How to manipulate files in your CE applications
• How to create and use databases on the handhelds using ADO CE
• How to move data between the handheld and desktop PC
• How to create help systems for your CE applications
• How to get around the VBCE Toolkit bugs
• Design implications of the handheld environment
• The construction of complete applications to demonstrate the techniques of professional VBCE programming

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