1 Developing Apps For The Pocket PC Platform Anup Mistry Technology Manager D-2 (22 nd May ’03)

2 Outline Windows CE Operating System Pocket PC Hardware Pocket PC programming tools Pocket PC SDK

3 Windows CE Operating System Windows CE Family 1.0, 2.x (Palm-size PC, Handheld PC) 3.0 (Pocket PC, Pocket PC 2002) 4.x (.NET – array of devices) **.NET Compact Framework

4 Pocket PC hardware 206 Mhz (StrongArm) processor 32 MB RAM 32 MB ROM 256 color display IRDA port USB port for syncing PCMCIA Slot Compact Flash Slot Bluetooth Card WirelessLAN Card SD Card

5 Pocket PC Development Tools Embedded Visual Tools 3.0 (eVB, eVC++) Server-Side and Client-Side Scripting Visual Studio.NET 2003 (includes Compact Framework Release version) Embedded Visual C {Pocket PC “Ozone”}

6 Pocket PC Development Tools

7 Which language ? Visual Basic No Yes Low No Visual C++ Yes No High (no boundaries) Yes Development of drivers Development of ActiveSync® filter RAD, testing, & deployment Degree of freedom High Access to the Full Pocket PC API

8 Networking TCPIP stack –(HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, etc) –Raw Socket API

9 Windows Components Standard –Button –List –Combo Progress Bar Slider Tree-View Custom Menu Bar Picture-Box Winsock Control TAPI

10 Web Development Pocket Internet Explorer JScript support “Fit to Screen” Macromedia Player Flash 6.0 Supports Clear-Case Fonts

11 Gaming development & File Access Full Screen Hardware Button Control Landscape Mode Straight forward File IO

12 Graphics & Multimedia Windows Media Player for Pocket Internet Explorer Streaming Audio, Video supported Sound Recorder with Sound Button

13 Messaging and Collaboration Supports a Pocket Outlook Object Model. ActiveSync SDK

14 Multi-Modal Input Panel –Keyboard –Letter Recognizer –Transcriber Rich Ink Control –Drawing –Writing –Recording

15 Data Access ADOCE support SQL Server CE Sybase CE Server Oracle Lite

16 Deployment Use Microsoft CAB Wizard ActiveSync Installshield –Device to Device –Web to Device

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