Teach Yourself Windows CE Programming in 24 Hours [With CDROM]

by Jason P. Nottingham, Andrew Tucker, BSQUARE

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be programming Windows CE. In a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds on the preceding one, enabling you to learn the essentials... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672316587
• ISBN13: 9780672316586
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Powerful book which delivers on its promise

The book somewhat delivered on its promise back when it was still called WinCE (I'm pretty sure this book won't work for post 2.0 WinCE versions). Unfortunately, at the time I had to fork out $1k for a development platform which would allow me to compile some code for my WinCE machines. This is ridiculous. Why should I pay for the privilage of developing on Microsoft's platform? In the end, I came to the conclusion that Windows CE itself is pretty worthless. Too many drawbacks, and there isn't much point in it with out a better UI stuck on it. Presumably later versions have found a niche as background OS for PalmOS, and for fancy cell phones.

Inconsistent, wrong examples - Pay Attention!

I bought this book not knowing a lick of Win32 API programming, so I had to take a crash course in Win32 programming first, as the book starts off assuming you know the API. Thankfully, it leaves MFC and ATL to the last chapter and focuses solely on C and the API.One problem I had with the book is that the examples in the text are often quite wrong in terms of number/use of parameters, and leave out some details that can be misleading. Besides the examples, the text has frequent misleading information (p.44: "First you can call the CommandBar_InsertButton() function..." Later on the same page: "The other function you can use to add buttons is the CommandBar_InsertButton() function..." - the first quote should have said CommandBar_AddButton())If you are paying attention and following the book closely, you will weed out these inconsistencies, though, and should come out of it with respectable knowledge of CE.