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Objectives
The project may be mainly characterized as a reserch work. Our Customer's need
was to clear up the software
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and hardware inventory capabilities applicable for handheld devices running the
Microsoft Pocket PC operating system.
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Results
This project resulted in the application executing on a "Desktop PC" which the
handheld device running the Pocket PC OS synchronized with. This program covers
a rather large functionality and receives information about the PDA hardware
capabilities (the screen resolution, the CPU model, the built-in and external
memory size, etc.).
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Also, the functions of this application allow to get information about the
programs installed on the PDA. For example, these are the OS version, the
version and list of installed Mobile Office components, the system registry
data useful for the software inventory, as well as the Version Info of
executables and Dlls.
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Developer's comments
Q: How much time did the project last?
KB_Soft: One month and a half.
Q: What was the most difficult and interesting in this work?
KB_Soft: The most interesting and at the same time difficult was the research
part of the project. That was the research work that took about 70% of all
amount of work performed in terms of this project. Since our Customer wanted
the survey of capabilities and the examples of implemented functionality useful
for inventory purposes, we had to look for the solution to a rather
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wide range of non-typical, non-trivial tasks.
Q: Could you give an example?
KB_Soft: For example, one of such tasks was a unique identification of the PDA,
running the Pocket PC operating system, at any moment. This task was solved as
a separate mini-project (iPAQ Inventory DLL).
Also, we had to achieve some results using experience approach, as we did not
have the reliable and qualitative documentation on some issues. For instance,
the issues related with some non-documented Remote API functions of the Pocket
PC 2002 and system registry of this operating system.
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