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Chapter 9 / PDA Robot Software for Pocket PC 2002
Server, that are automatically synchronized upon connection to
the remote data source.
Building the PDA Robot Pocket PC Application

To build the application, first, download and install the free eVC 3.0
IDE and Pocket PC 2002 SDK installations from the Microsoft site.
Start the eVC IDE and click File/New. Select WCE Pocket PC 2002
MCF App Wizard and name the project. Check the central processing
units (CPUs) you would like to include as targets. To use the emulator,
you must check the WCE x86. Check the other CPUs such as WCE
ARM.PDABot. Click OK and select Dialog Based and the language you
want. Click Next and be sure to check the Windows Sockets option.
Enter the title you want in the case “PDA Robotics.” Click Next, Next,
Finish. The project has now been created and we can begin placing the
buttons and edit boxes on the screen.

Switch to the Resources tab, Under PDABot resources/Dialog, double-
click on IDD_PDABOT_DIALOG. The blank form will appear, on
which we will add the buttons and two edit boxes. Place the controls
as shown in Figure 9.4.

Figure 9.4
Editing the
resources.

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