Introduction

Lesson 1: Install the UltraLite ActiveX package

UltraLite ActiveX User's Guide
Tutorial: An UltraLite Application for Pocket IE

Introduction

This tutorial guides you through the process of building an UltraLite ActiveX application. At the end of the tutorial you will have an application and small database on your Windows CE device that synchronizes with a database running on your desktop computer.

This tutorial describes the CustDB sample application. This application demonstrates the capabilities of UltraLite ActiveX used from Pocket Internet Explorer (Pocket IE). It runs on a Windows CE device.

The CustDB sample is fully-functional customer application. The CustDB sample application provides you with examples of how to implement many of the techniques you will need to develop UltraLite ActiveX applications.

The CustDB sample application is written in JScript and HTML. The code for this application is located in the Samples\UltraLiteActiveX\pie subdirectory of your SQL Anywhere 9 installation.

Note

This application uses frames and so will only work on versions of Pocket IE later than 1.1.

Timing

The tutorial takes about 50 minutes.

Competencies and experience

This tutorial assumes:

you are familiar with JScript and Pocket Internet Explorer
- you can write, test, and troubleshoot a JScript application

The synchronization section of this tutorial requires that:

you can use command line options and parameters

Goals

The goals for the tutorial are to gain competence and familiarity with the process of developing an UltraLite ActiveX application.