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Win32 API Programming Tutorial for Pocket PC and Smartphone

The primary focus of this tutorial is Win32 API programming for Pocket PC and Smartphone. First begin with the good old Hello World program. Then learn to create a blank full-screen "canvas" and apply drawing routines to it. Then get into programming dialog based applications which ask for and process user input. Some basic C programming knowledge would be a good thing to have before starting!

WIN32 API is the 32 bit successor of the Win16 API, the Application Programming Interface which has been used for writing Windows programs since Windows version 1.0. The WIN32 API is a library of data types, constants, functions and classes (mainly structures) which C programmers use to create applications for the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Programming the API as shown in this tutorial yields the fastest, smallest, most efficient code possible next to Assembler. Assembler would require extreme amounts of extra work since it is processor specific and there are so many different Pocket PC and Smartphone processor types (ARM, MIPS, SH3, etc.).

Contents

• Lesson 3 - Let's Draw!
  Learn some basic drawing functions for drawing on our blank canvas!

• Lesson 4 - Dialog Based Application

  Learn the fundamentals behind using the resource editor to create a dialog based percentage change calculator.

• Lesson 5 - Smartphone Dialog Based Application

  Create a dialog based percentage change calculator for the Smartphone.

• Lesson 6 - Creating CAB files for Smartphone and Pocket PC

  Create CAB files for over-the-air delivery of your Smartphone and Pocket PC applications.

NEW!
Win32 API Programming for Smartphone
(work in progress)

 

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