Καλησπέρα,

Έχει κανείς υπόψη του κανένα καλό βιβλίο για Windows Mobile Applications?

Μιλάμε πάντα για γνώστες .NET windows applications.

Κυκλοφορούν διάφορα βιβλία αλλά πιστεύω ότι το πιο ολοκληρωμένο για ένα developer είναι το Microsoft Mobile Development Handbook (Daniel Moth, Peter Foot, Andy Wigley)

Δεν το υποστηρίζω γιατί και οι τρεις συγγραφείς είναι φίλοι (δύο MVPs και ο Daniel που είναι κατά το ήμισυ Έλληνας - πρώην MVP και νυν Microsoft Evangelist) αλλά γιατί πραγματικά έχουν μαζέψει πολύ εμπειρία μέσα σ'αυτό. Δεν είναι ένα ακόμη reference βιβλίο που αγοράζεις αντί για manual. Αντιγράφω από το blog του Daniel για να πάρεις μια ιδέα:

Its 600+ pages are spread over the following 18 chapters:

1. .NET Compact Framework—a Platform on the Move
2. Building a Microsoft Windows Forms GUI
3. Using SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition and Other Data Stores
4. Catching Errors, Testing, and Debugging
5. Understanding and Optimizing .NET Compact Framework Performance
6. Completing the Application: Packaging and Deployment
7. Exchanging Data with Backend Servers
8. Networking
9. Getting Connected
10. Security Programming for Mobile Applications
11. Threading
12. Graphics Programming
13. Direct3D Mobile
14. Interoperating with the Platform
15. Building Custom Controls
16. Internationalization
17. Developing with Windows Mobile
18. Introducing .NET Compact Framework Version 3.5 and Visual Studio "Orcas"

We explicitly targeted two audiences with our book and implicitly excluded one audience segment:
1. Existing C# and VB device developers - YES
If you are already targeting Windows Mobile devices you will know that all existing books talk about version 1.0 of the .NET Compact Framework and Visual Studio.NET 2003. Since those times there have been three service packs for v1.0, version 2.0 with two service packs and, of course, Visual Studio 2005. Furthermore, v3.5 is in Beta 1 right now as is Visual Studio "Orcas". Our book covers what is new in the .NET Compact Framework and Visual Studio 2005 compared to their predecessors. It also covers throughout the chapters, but also in a dedicated chapter, version 3.5 of the NETCF and VS "Orcas" for Devices.

2. Existing .NET developers who are complete newbies to device development - YES
There are millions of proficient .NET desktop developers that would like to know how to write code for their mobile device or generally want to find out how to transfer their skills or business logic to the mobile platform. The book's tone is certainly aimed directly to those developers by continually contrasting and comparing with desktop development as applicable, highlighting what is different or missing when doing device development.

3. Existing native device developers - NO
This book is all about managed code, but we never introduce any basic .NET concepts from scratch. We expect readers to know about those either through experience with previous versions of NETCF or through .NET desktop development. So if you are a native device developer, you should pick up another book to learn the basics of .NET. We also have made no assumptions of knowledge about the Windows CE and Windows Mobile platform. The reason is so desktop developers can get an introduction to the whole stack/environment and not just the dev platform and tools. So, as a native device developer, you will encounter concepts explained that you probably already are intimately familiar with.

Whether you are looking for a book to read cover-to-cover or for a reference that you go back to, this book will fulfil your needs. It isn't just a book on the raw technology, but more importantly it captures lessons from developers that have practised mobile and embedded development in the real world.

Daniel, περιμένω τα ποσοστά μου...