Developments in mobile technology and the wireless internet are converging to offer new opportunities for improving business processes and creating important new products and services. Pocket PC Development in the Enterprise is the first book to explain how to exploit these trends by developing mobile enterprise solutions based on Microsoft's increasingly popular Pocket PC platform.

The authors discuss the business implications of the mobility boom before going on to provide the method, the code, and the tools for the reader to develop their own mobile solutions. To aid understanding, the book uses the story of a fictitious company, ACME Copier Inc, illustrating how their field service operation improves customer satisfaction and productivity via Pocket PC applications. The client- and server-side components that make it all work are included with the book, enabling the reader to reuse vital elements of the solution.

Pocket PC Development in the Enterprise includes these invaluable features to help new developers hit the ground running:

• An overview of the business impact of mobile solutions;

• A tried and tested Pocket PC application development method;

• An effective mobile system architecture design blueprint;

• A set of practical, real-world illustrations;

• A wealth of sample code walkthroughs;

• A CD featuring all the code plus a host of essential Pocket PC developer tools.

CD contents include:

• FULL LICENSED VERSION of Odyssey Software CEfusion 3.5 Developer Enterprise Edition

• All the book samples in source code format

• Microsoft eMbedded Visual Tools 3.0

• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 for Windows CE 1.1 Trial Edition

• Microsoft SOAP Toolkit 2.0

• Microsoft Reader 1.5

• Read in Microsoft Reader add-in for Microsoft Word 1.0

• Developer One Pocket ScreenSnap 5.0 (Full Version)

• Odyssey Software ViaXML 1.1 Trial Edition

• Odyssey Software OSIUtil 1.0

• Software 309 PictureBox Control 2.7

• Ezos EzWAP 2.0 Evaluation

• Larry Banks' Virtual CE

• Simon Fell's Pocket SOAP 0.9.1

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Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 3 Ratings

Great content - 2001-12-31
Reviewer Rating:
When I picked this book up I was pleased to find useful tools and tips included in both the book and on the CD. The code for the datetimepicker alone pretty much justifies the cost of the book in my opinion. Having the embedded Visual Tools, SQLCE, and the other tools all on one CD is also a good thing.

Between begginer and serious but lost the focus - 2004-01-02
Reviewer Rating:
In my opinion this is a book built arround a very good example of an application, but not a book to start with nor a book for the experts.

The introduction goes fast jumping from subject to subject without showing a clear direction to teach you either logic, approach, language, conventions or how to better understand the environment (developing environment)

The fact of talking about visual basic makes me think instantly that there will be a smooth transition till you are up to speed and then jump to more complex examples, in this book it is a collection of picks and tricks in a messy way in order to prepare you without too much explanation so they can explain "real" application written in VB.

Funnily the application itself is very informative and useful but by the time you arrive there there are too many questions running wild on your head and is quite fustrating.

Very informative - 2003-02-18
Reviewer Rating:
This book is extremely broad yet contains more sample code than most other books! Really enjoyed the Pocket Service sample!

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