Making WIN32 Applications Mobile: Porting to Windows CE

By Nancy Nicolaisen

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. * Presents a set of metrics for developers to determine when and how best to proceed in porting Win32 applications * Shows developers how to understand the embedded-system bias inherent in Windows CE and how to write applications that use this as a strength * Covers Unicode, which is mandatory for Windows CE, and explains how to consider the effect of various screen resolutions

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471216186
• ISBN13: 9780471216186
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Demystifying Porting

A truly thorough explaination of how and when to port Win32 applications to Windows CE. Using this book, I was able to evaluate development projects to determine when to port and when to rewrite. I was also able to relate familiar Win32 APIs and other programming constructs to their mobile counterparts. This book fills critical void in the mobile applications market.