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Building .NET Applications for Mobile Devices
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Author: Andy Wigley, Peter Roxburgh, Peter Roxburgh Andy Wigley
List Price: $59.99
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ISBN: 0735615322
Publisher: Microsoft Press (06 March, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 126,628
Average Customer Rating: 2.33 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
coolXterior
Although the title says .Net "Applications", it fails to
mention they are "Web" applications, meaning ASP.Net & WML Pages! Good thing I got this book from my U's library rather
than wasting my money on it. I was looking for "apps" that run
on mobile platforms, not "apps that run in a IE window"
on mobile platforms! Although, it has good descriptions
of resources like the various dev toolkits from different cell
phone vendors, there's not much else.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Well Written
I find the previous review completely in error. While I'm only 5 chapters into the book, I'm finding it well organized and well written. Additionally, I'm working the examples and I'm finding that the "Mobile Internet Toolkit" technology works well over a variety of device emulators. Having said this, you must also understand that I am a Microsoft basher, although my mind is open to the .Net technologies. The only criticism that I have so far is that the examples are tending to be very buggy. This is not a problem for me as I learn lots by fixing them, but some readers will find this frustrating.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Don't Need the Marketing Speak
To tell the truth, I didn't read the whole book. I was turned off by the market speak right off the bat in chapter one. There's too many other books out there to explore, so please don't waste my time telling me how good .Net technology is; tell me how to use it. If your looking for a good book on Pocket PC programming, check out "Pocket PC, Handheld PC Developer's Guide with Microsoft Embedded Visual Basic". There's a lot of good, concise info in that book.
As a side note, I'm not a Microsoft basher. I make my bread and butter working with their products. I'm just sick of getting sales pitches everwhere I look.
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