Re: Win32? MFC? .NET? What to use for embedded dev?



1. Performance is relative. XPe is XP Pro broken down into 11,000+
components. You pick and choose what you want in the image. The fewer
services and features the performance might be faster. Once again it depends
on what you are doing.

2. It didn't take me long to get familair with .NET programming. Start with
a console app and try an MFC applicaitons. There are lots of getting started
books on C# and VB.NET. MS Press books have som pretty good C# books out
there: Inside C# v2, Visual C# .NET Step-By-Step, Progrmming Visual C# .NET,
C# Programers Cook book to name a few.

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental
Toolkit




"LintMan" <LintMan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Howdy,

I need to develop an embedded Windows application. I'm an experienced C
and
C++ programmer with predominately an embedded and unix background, but in
terms of modern Windows software development, I've got a lot to learn, so
I'm looking for some tips on how/where to get started. I'll be using C++
with Visual Studio 2005. The app will require several different threads
collecting/analyzing data and performing I/O. It doesn't require a gui; a
console/text output window is fine.

Some questions:

- Is there any performance benefit to using XPembedded versus regular XP?
(Sorry, I asked a variant of this before but that part wasn't really
answered).

- What is the best starting point might be for me in terms of technologies
(Win32, MFC, .NET)? My first guess is to start with a Win32 Console
Project.
But I just saw some stuff about MS "deprecating" Win32 in favor of .NET
framework. Do I want/need to use something like MFC or .NET for what I'm
doing? Any benefits? What do developers typically use?

Beyond that what are some good books/online resources to learn that stuff
and to serve as a reference? (Ie: If .NET is the way to go, what are some
good books to learn it from?)

Thanks!




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