Chapter 14. The Remote API
Chapter 13 discussed various options for connecting mobile systems to desktop and server systems, and Chapter 12 ended with a discussion of Web Services. This chapter covers the Remote API (RAPI), another option for making the device-to-desktop connection for devices that are connected using ActiveSync.
This chapter discusses RAPI, an extension to the Win32 API on desktop versions of Microsoft Windows. The RAPI functions provide a mechanism for code running on the desktop to access Windows CE–powered devices that are connected to the desktop via ActiveSync. Most of the RAPI functions involve accessing the object store of a connected device, although a host of other functions provide some interesting ways to access a Windows ...
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