EBook: Programming Windows Phone 7 by Charles Petzold (Second Draft)

Charles Petzold, well known technical writer on the Windows Platform has made the second draft preview of his book,  Programming Windows Phone 7, available to download from his website.

Book contents basics on development in XNA & Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 and basic game development.

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Programming Windows Phone 7 (PDF)
Programming Windows Phone 7 (XPS)
Source code (July 2010 Beta)

Source : http://www.charlespetzold.com/phone/

MS released Ebook of Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Fundamentals

MS has released a free ebook of windows embedded ce6 fundamentals book.
All u need a hotmail account to download this.

Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Fundamentals Authors: Stanislav Pavlov and Pavel Belevsky Published: 07/30/2008 ISBN: 9780735626256 Publisher: Microsoft Press

Contents at a Glance
1 Introduction
2 Operating System and Application Development Tools
3 Operating System Architecture
4 Build System
5 Board Support Package (BSP)
6 Driver Architecture
7 Starting the Operating System
8 Building Devices
9 Application Development
10 Testing Operating System Images
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Microsoft Press: Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Fundamentals

Microsoft Press: Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Fundamentals by Stanislav Pavlov and Pavel Belevsky.

This book is intended for everyone who develops or plans the development of embedded devices based on Windows Embedded CE. If you are just learning about the Windows Embedded CE operating system, this book can serve as a starting point for further learning. If you are already familiar with Windows Embedded CE, this book provides advice and recommendations for application development.

Here's the chapter listing for the book:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Operating System and Application
• Chapter 3: Operating System Architecture
• Chapter 4: Subsystem for Building an Operating System
• Chapter 5: Board Support Package (BSP)
• Chapter 6: Driver Architecture
• Chapter 7: Loading the Operating System
• Chapter 8: Building Devices
• Chapter 9: Application Development

WinCE Training eBook - Now Available

Embedded Systems Using WinCE (eBook) by Asang Dani, Yashavant Kanetkar Windows CE (Compact Edition) is Microsoft's time-tested real-time OS for Mobile and Embedded devices. WinCE has proven itself as a robust platform for product development. Biggest challenge, however, is diversity of topics that one needs to master to harness the true power of WinCE. This training material we hope will address that need. It captures more than 3 years of experience that we have gathered while doing WinCE training and product consulting in the Asia Pacific region. Table Of Contents Designing OS Platform Builder Using Kernel Debugger Understanding SDK Creating SDK Build Process Configuring OS OS Internals Process Memory Architecture Kernel Memory Architecture Memory Access Stream Device Drivers Native Device Drivers UM Drivers And Pointers Interrupts Driver Loading Managing Device Drivers Virtual Disk Driver Using Debug Zones Working With CETK Creating tests using CETK DLLs Synchronization Objects Boot Loader Writing Drivers in C++ Power Management BSP Driver Libraries Networking And Communications Windows Media Player Architecture Emulator Skin Filesystem Architecture USB Customizing Shell eBook contains 26 Coloured PDF Files containing detailed slides for each topic mentioned above. Working Windows CE 5.0/6.0 Stream Interface and Virtual Disk Device Drivers with source code.

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