Customer comments on this selection.
 Very good, but a bit dated
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 Overpriced for out of date information
Book is out of date and is exteremly overpriced.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 Too out of date to be of use.
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.
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br /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
Sure this book is a tad outdated, but there aren't many books that address this topic.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 Anything outdated about this book, can be supplemented by reading MSDN documentation.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A little bit outdated
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.
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