Visual Basic Developing Applications in Windows CEVisual Basic - Developing Applications in Windows CE
Developing Applications in Windows CE
What Is Windows CE?
Target Audience
Building a Windows CE Device
Getting Under the Hood
Supported Architectures
Win32 API
The Object Store
ActiveSync
Processes and Threads
Real-Time Capabilities
Development Environments
Windows CE and the IT Department
Visual Basic Development
The Development Environment
Windows CE Application Design Philosophy
Your First Windows CE Application
General Design Considerations
Dealing with Errors
The Windows CE Desktop Emulator
Testing and Debugging Your Application
Deploying Your Application
Extending Visual Basic Using COM DLLs
Windows CE is simply a 32-bit, non-PC operating system. You might have seen Windows CE devices, such as the handheld PC (HPC) or the palm-sized PC?these are just some of the many applications run by the Windows CE operating system. So, although this tutorial devotes much time to writing applications for the HPC, it is important to realize that these devices are only a small subset of Windows CE applications. Windows CE is designed to be a component-based operating system that can be embedded into any number of devices. Being supplied as a series of configurable components allows Windows CE to meet the stringent memory and size constraints common to many electronic devices.