Programming Visual Basic for Palm OS

Matthew Holmes has been developing software for 15 years. He holds a graduate degree in Computer Science. He has developed for every version of VB since its initial release, and VB script and Active Server Pages since those products were in beta. He has been using and programming the Palm in C++ since late 1999. His most recent commercialproject was the Palm VII wireless interface for a major on-line storage vendor. Patrick Burton is a software developer with nine years of experience. He has an extensive systems programming background on many platforms including embedded devices, Linux, and Windows. He has an extensive background in MFC and COM development, including writing COM based programs for Unix to extend the capabilities of the Real Networks streaming media server Roger Knoell is a software developer with 10 years experience leveraging high-level language development tools and environments. He initially developed software using three releases of PowerSoft's PowerBuilder. He then moved(permanently) VB with the beta release of Version 4.0. He is extremely keen on AppForge, especially its direct integration into the VB development environment, which he first saw at VBITS 2000.

Part I Programming with AppForge: introducing AppForge - Palm software, main features of AppForge, installing AppForge, using AppForge, resources; application development; user interface design - basic application layout example, language and libraries support; Palm database - programming the Palm database, AppForge PDB library, the AppForge database, converter, resources. Part II Data connectivity: conduit development - applications and conduits, conduit design, installing the CDK nuts and bolts, synchronization logic, data formats, resources; SQL databases - SQL publishing, universal conduit, resources; Web clipping applications - Palm.Net Wireless, architecture, simple WCA tour, building a large application, Palm OS 4.0, resources. Part III Advanced topics: operating system access - fuser mechanics, a data encryption program, resources; shared libraries - memory concepts, memory management functions, DBSLib shared library, DBSLib driver application, DBSLib fuser AppForge Driver application; Piedmont - obtaining Piedmont, architecture overview, module and interface definition, component code generation, Windows component implementation, Palm component implementation, AppForge VM integration; debugging - conditional compilation, Palm reporter, Palm buttons, Debug database. Part IV Appendixes - ingot and enumeration summary; DBSLib sample project setup.