Product Description

This book is an in-depth exploration into eVB's inherent features, and how to use them to solve likely mobile application programming tasks. After reading the book the reader will be able to write applications tackling a wide array of business problems for Windows CE-powered devices, both customized and for PocketPC and Handheld PC products. This book will help ease the transition into the language, and provide a reference for even more experienced developers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #881449 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

From the Back Cover

This book is an in-depth exploration into eVB's inherent features, and how to use them to solve likely mobile application programming tasks. After reading the book the reader will be able to write applications tackling a wide array of business problems for Windows CE-powered devices, both customized and for PocketPC and Handheld PC products. This book will help ease the transition into the language, and provide a reference for even more experienced developers.

About the Author

Christopher Tacke, MCSD, is an associate at Rubicon Technologies, Inc., in Reston, Virginia, as well as cofounder and president of Innovative Decision Support Systems, Inc. He has a bachelor's in geology from the University of Montana and a master's in project management from the Keller Graduate School of Management in Illinois. He has written software with uses ranging from text games on his Vic-20 to seismic data analysis to assembly-line automation, but now focuses largely on mobile computing programming, including Windows CE, Palm, and RIM. Chris lives with his wife, Erin, and their black Lab, Zoe, in Maryland.

Tim Bassett, MCSE, MCSD, MCT, MCP+Site Building, has more than eight years of experience as a lead programmer on many emerging technologies. He received a bachelor's in business administration, focused in management information systems, from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. As Mobile Application Group Manager at Rubicon Technologies, Inc., Tim was responsible for a large prercentage of Rubicon's research and development, as well as the training of Rubicon's associates. Currently Tim does independent consulting for mobile applications running on both Windows CE and Palm OS. He lives with his wife, Cori, in Washington D.C.

You can contact Chris via e-mail at ctacke@innovativedss.com. Tim Bassett can be contacted via pocketpcbook@yahoo.com. Be aware, though, that we get a whole lot of e-mail in a day and although we try to read and answer them all, responses may not always be quick. If you're looking for technical help on a problem, we highly recommend searching the archive of and posting to developer community Web sites, newsgroups, and listservers.

Customer Reviews

An Important Text
There are precious few books out there right now that are dedicated to the subject of eVb. I have been seeking the perfect book on the subject for some time now. This, I am afraid, is not it. Though it is very good and far and away the best available at the moment. I commend it to eVb programmers as a very useful source for many eVb topics. Sadly - not all.

Fine for PocketPC and coming from Visual Basic
I too am trying to find a GOOD book on eMbedded Visual Basic. I am new to Visual Basic, although I am a OOP basic developer. I was hoping for more content on getting started and how to achive tasks rather than the explaination of building three or so products. I also believe the title to be a bit misleading as this book only covers PocketPC and NOT Windows CE Handheld PC v3.0 (which is what I have), there are sutle differences between the platforms which has made it difficult to build some of the demo applications.

I am sure this book is good but only if you are a Visual Basic developer and want to develope PocketPC applications, otherwise this book is an expensive paperweight.

I wish I'd bought this book last week !!!
OK, the truth is that I've only read the first 3 chapters. BUT, if I'd read these chapters last week, I would have saved myself about 10 hours of frustration this weekend! I'm totally new to eVB although I've been using VB for 10 years. The first 2 chapters of this book showed me language limitations that I've been struggling with all weekend AND are NOT DOCUMENTED in the eVB help files. I did buy another (unnamed) book on eVB but that one didn't come close to the information that I've read (so far) in this book.