 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.
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Presents
a set of metrics for developers to determine when and how
best to proceed in porting Win32 applications
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Shows
developers how to understand the embedded-system bias
inherent in Windows CE and how to write applications that
use this as a strength
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Covers
Unicode, which is mandatory for Windows CE, and explains how
to consider the effect of various screen resolutions
Description:
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:
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Explains
how the "subset" of Windows CE APIs diverges from
the standard Win32 set
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Shows
you how to understand the embedded-system "bias"
inherent in Windows CE
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Demonstrates
how to write applications that use this bias as a strength
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Covers
Unicode, which is mandatory for Windows CE (but optional in
Win32)
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Explains
how to consider the effect of various screen resolutions
Book
detail:
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Paperback:
450 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.23 x 9.18 x 7.52
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Publisher:
John Wiley & Sons; 1st edition (July 15, 2002)
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ISBN:
0471216186
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