Basic4ppc book available!

[Erel]

"The Essentials Basic4ppc" book is available online: Basic4ppc - Windows Mobile programming and Pocket PC Development

It is a great resource for new users and also advanced users.

[derez]

Erel & Ariel
A very nice book !
I am sure it will be useful, great work.

on pages 351, 361, 363 and may be some other you have a calendar in Hebrew...

[zefinjo]

nice book，reading recently....

[Saj]

Hi, none of the links to the SQLite source code on p228 and 229 work. Can it be posted?

[Saj]

Hi, none of the links to the SQLite source code on p228 and 229 work. Can it be posted?

[Erel]

I think that you will find most of the links available here:
Basic4ppc SQL library reference

[Saj]

Can a spreadsheet be imported into a "LIT" SQLite database file?

[Erel]

You can export the spreadsheat to a CSV file, then load it with Table.LoadCSV and then save the table with Connection.CreateSQLTable.

[Sir Isaac]

The book is great, and indeed, it has been working for years as one of the main project attractions. In fact, it introduces every pivotal product's concept in a plain and intelligible way. And therefore, it would be really awesome to see this B4P bestseller revised and republished someday - brushed up English (say, errata and mistakes like missed -s endings occasionally happen), as well as more detailed sections on strings, arrays and structures, elegant coding techniques and code optimization (for instance, I still cannot figure out anywhere-software in reference materials what is the maximum/optimum/safe length of the String type in B4P, for desktop and average device), together with a thorough review of the whole scope of up-to-date (6.90-compatible) additional libraries (I wish Andrew Graham could write this section). The new edition could also be focused on desktop applications, since there seems to be more life and perspective in this direction today.

[agraham]

Originally Posted by Sir Isaac

what is the maximum/optimum/safe length of the String type in B4P, for desktop and average device

Probably the max size for a String is 2^31-1 (2,147,483,647) bytes so it is essentially unlimited in practice.

of up-to-date (6.90-compatible) additional libraries

As far as I know all of my libraries are 6.90 compatible. If you find any that are not I can make them so, but only for desktop use as I have updated my computers to Windows 7 and switched to Visual Studio 2010 which cannot compile for the Compact Framework.

The new edition could also be focused on desktop applications, since there seems to be more life and perspective in this direction today.

That would appear to be so with the demise of Windows Mobile. Regrettably I don't think that the target audience is large enough to warrant the time that would be required to rework the book. However Basic4ppc lives on for me for desktop use.