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Store See larger picture Building Powerful Platforms with Windows CE(R) (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series) by James Y. Wilson and Aspi Havewala - Addison-Wesley Professional List Price: $64.99 Price at Amazon.com: $54.32 (Save 16%) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Shipping rates and policies Average Customer Review: Based on 13 reviews. Amazon.com Sales Rank: 608224 Product Description The true potential of Windows CE lies in its ability to provide a robust, low-cost platform for system integration on custom, non-PC hardware: handhelds, wireless devices, TV applications, terminals, smartcards, even household appliances. Building Powerful Platforms with Windows CE goes beyond Microsoft's documentation to deliver the real-world detail developers need to minimize risk, improve performance, and get to market fast. The authors begin with a detailed overview of Windows CE, its motivation, goals, architecture, design, and implementation. Next, they review the crucial, often-ignored project management issues associated with custom platform development. They introduce Microsoft's Windows CE Platform builder, demonstrate how to quickly create custom builds, and demystify Microsoft CE's confusing boot loader. The book includes a full chapter on building CE Hardware Abstraction Layers, and exceptional step-by-step guidance on designing, implementing, and debugging CE device drivers.Finally, the authors take you further inside the Windows CE build process, show how to extend Platform Builder; and explain how to use Microsoft's Device Driver Test Toolkit to streamline testing. Featured Customer Reviews Very good, but a bit dated, August 10, 2006 A good overview...lots of useful information. Just be aware that this was written for CE 3.0, and 5.0 is current, with 6.0 in Beta, so there are detail differences. Still, a good starting point, and I can't find any more current books on the subject. So if you need to learn to use the Microsoft Platform Builder to do Windows CE embedded sysgens, this is the only game in town. Overpriced for out of date information, July 27, 2005 Book is out of date and is exteremly overpriced. Anyone who attends a DevConference receives more information that is upto date than what was covered in the entire book. Waste of time and money. Too out of date to be of use., March 18, 2005 This book was written in 2001 (as were most of the positive reviews for it here on Amazon.) It only covers up to Platform Builder and WinCE 3.0, which are now up to version 5. As a result, the how-to parts, as well as the references, are mostly useless. In fact, I'm not sure any of the sections are relevant or can be trusted since WinCE has changed so much. Considering the price of the book, I feel cheated. The authors need to write a new version and THIS version should be pulled from circulation. Great book for platform level CE development, August 08, 2004 Sure this book is a tad outdated, but there aren't many books that address this topic. I have not read Boling's book, but browsed a copy and I think it does not address the low level programming to the extent that this book does. You won't find a better book on the development of the actual platform than this one. This covers drivers, OAL, bootloaders, hardware accessing, and also generally how a CE project could be planned by management right down to developers. I would not want to work on a CE platform without this book. Anything outdated about this book, can be supplemented by reading MSDN documentation. But this book gives you a starting point and a great high level explanation of the system as a whole, which is something that is hard to get out of reading tons of MSDN documentation if don't already have a lot of experience in a topic. A little bit outdated, December 18, 2002 I was a very disappointed as the book only covers Windows-CE 3.0 and older versions. It does not cover CEC-filer not the new method of component selection. You might also be interested in these items... Programming Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Developer Reference, 4th Edition Programming Microsoft Windows CE .NET, Third Edition (Core Reference) The Windows CE Technology Tutorial: Windows Powered Solutions for the Developer (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series) Microsoft® Mobile Development Handbook ARM System Developer's Guide: Designing and Optimizing System Software (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)