Chapter 8. Communications Using TCP/IP: HTTP and Sockets
Windows CE provides a rich variety of communications techniques for transferring data between a Windows CE device and desktop PCs or servers. Selecting the most appropriate communications technique is important. If you are developing a "companion" application (that is, an application that shares data with a desktop application, in the same way that Pocket Word and Word for Windows share data), you should use either ActiveSync (see Chapter 17), or perhaps RAPI (the Remote Application Programming Interface, see Chapter 10). If your application needs to communicate directly with another application running on a desktop PC or server, you should consider using TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet ...
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