Programming Visual Basic for Palm OS

by Patrick Burton, Roger Knoell, Matthew Holmes

Due to the immense popularity of Palm OS devices, demand for Palm OS applications has increased dramatically. Over 16 million Palm Powered PDAs have sold over the past six years, and the number of registered Palm Developers is currently over 100,000 and growing by about a 1,000 per month.Visual Basic is one of the most popular development platformsin the world. Until recently Visual Basic developers were not able to create applications for the Palm...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596002009
• ISBN13: 9780596002008
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Good book

Good book from two perspectives: if you use AppForge for Palm development then this is a complete (slightly dated) book, or if you use MS VB6 for conduits or Palm-flavored web applications with IIS. Almost everything in the book is backed up with running code.As an aside, I am not sure if the previous reviewer actually read the book or tried to run the code. There are very few typos in the chapter mentioned (which is online) and I didn't see any errors. For me, the code worked fine; the book specifically mentions VB6 and service pack 3.

A highly recommended self-teaching tool

Collaboratively written by computer experts Matthew Holmes, Patrick Burton, and Roger Knoell, Programming Visual Basic for Palm OS is a solid and reliable programmer's guide to designing effective applications, transferring data to the PDA, building security through data encryption, and much more. Focusing especially on using AppForge to write programs, Visual Basic for Palm OS also covers SQL databases, Piedmont, and a great deal more. Step-by-step instructions, sample programs, excellent diagrams and comprehensible flowcharts make Programming Visual Basic for Palm OS a first-class reference and a highly recommended self-teaching tool.