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The goal
of this tutorial is very simply to write and test your first Pocket PC
application using eVB. This will:
- give you a taste of how easy it is to get started
- provide an overview of the eVB integrated design environment (IDE)
- test your recent installation of the eMbedded Visual Tools
Note:
- I do make effusive use of screen caps but at least nothing is ambiguous, I hope.
- Abbreviations 'eVT' = eMbedded Visual Tools; 'eVB' = eMbedded Visual Tools;
etc.
- Lastly but not least this guide is not intended as an insult to the honest-to-goodness
brains that most of us are born with, it may be verbose, but I hope that these
screen caps are worth a thousand words to you and will expedite a quick grasp
of the environment
- Excuse my sense of humour, it needs an outlet somewhere and as a reader of any
of my documentation you may find your self subject to any number of dry inanities.
Start by
running the eVB program from
Start
-> Programs -> Microsoft eMbedded Visual Tools ->
eMbedded Visual Basic 3.0
The first
choice you will be faced with is the New Project window. I'm writing
this tutorial for my iPAQ which is a Pocket PC specification so choose
'Windows CE for the Pocket PC project' followed by Open.
You will
now have the following screen in front of you.
I will now
resize it so that it is optimized for the screen caps by closing the Project
Properties window which we won't need for this tutorial.
Next I resize
the Form Designer window and arrange the integrated design environment
(IDE) until I have the layout below. This is the template we will use
for the rest of this tutorial.
Now let's
give the project a more meaningful name. Head over to the Project
menu and click on Project1 properties
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