The Pocket PC is now the fastest growing platform for building handheld-based enterprise applications. Free from the memory limitations and underpowered processors of other handheld platforms, Pocket Access and eMbedded Visual Basic are providing the Pocket PC with the same one-two punch that Microsoft Access and Visual Basic gave Windows application development in the early 90's. As the first RAD development tool for the Pocket PC, eMbedded Visual Basic increases developer productivity and allows for the creation of a wide range of database applications to empower an increasingly mobile workforce.

This is the first book on the market to focus on Pocket PC development using Microsoft's free eMbedded Visual Basic 3. Pocket PC Database Development with eMbedded Visual Basic is designed to get software developers up to speed building Pocket Access database applications using eMbedded Visual Basic on the Pocket PC. Rob Tiffany has put his own Visual Basic background to work in developing advanced Pocket PC applications for large energy companies. It's from this perspective that he guides professional Visual Basic and Access programmers into the world of Pocket PC software development.

Tiffany's book ramps up the reader's skills in fast-paced, but pragmatic fashion. After describing the "must know" subset of the SQL language Pocket PC developers need to know, he guides the reader through Microsoft's ADOCE and ActiveSync technologies - and with no nonsense examples. Tiffany effectively shares his "been there, done that" experience to help programmers avoid the shoals can sink efforts to build Pocket PC applications that communicate with either local Pocket Access databases or remote SQL Server databases.

In the aftermath of the dot-com fallout, Directors and Managers of business units in corporations all around the world are looking for solutions to the problems that affect their bottom line. They no longer buy into all the hype that's been thrusted upon them over the last few years by "e-solution" companies offering the services of a bunch of "web guys." Deploying Pocket PC's with wireless networking capabilities to a corporate workforce costs less than deploying laptops and saves time because they're always connected to the corporate LAN so actions taken by people in the field are instantly transmitted back to the home office. A new generation of embedded developers is needed to build these small, distributed applications and tie them into existing enterprise computing systems. Tiffany's book proposes to take the 3 million Visual Basic developers and leverage their existing skills to make them eMbedded Visual Basic developers in much the same way that Active Server Pages made them web developers.

• Chapter 1 – Getting Started
• Chapter 2 – The Pocket SQL Data Definition Language
• Chapter 3 – The Pocket SQL Data Manipulation Language
• Chapter 4 – The ADOCE Connection Object
• Chapter 5 – The ADOCE Recordset Object
• Chapter 6 – ActiveSync Import and Export Tools
• Chapter 7 – A Pocket Access Database Manager