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.
Contents
- 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