Today

Articles at Pocket PC Developer Network

• QA: How to install a Today theme file?
  June 02, 2003. How do I programmatically install a Today theme?
• QA: How to install/uninstall a Today plug-in?
  May 22, 2003. How do I programmatically install or remove a Today item plug-in?
• QA: How to create Today-friendly dialog based application?
  July 01, 2001. I have created a dialog based application. It works ok. But when I click Today item in Start menu my program is shown instead of Today screen. How can I fix it?

MSDN Technical Articles

• Two for the Road: Today the Pocket PC, Tomorrow the World!
  September 12, 2001. This month we're going to take a good look at one of my very favorite aspects of Pocket PC development-the amazingly flexible Today screen.
• Two for the Road: There's More Than One Way to Skin a Pocket PC
  October 16, 2001. This month we're going to finish the Today screen component we started discussing in the September 12th article. In the last article, we created a skeleton for a component, and now we'll turn it into something useful.
• Using the Today API
  June 13, 2000. How to Add Custom Information to the Today Screen.

CodeProject

• CTodayOptionsDialog - let's continue in writting today custom items in sequence of CTodayWindow class
  12 August 2003. An article on writing custom today items using CTodayOptionsDialog and CTodayWindow classes
• CTodayWindow - template class for creating custom today items
  11 August 2003. An article on writing custom today items using CTodayWindow class. The purpose of doing this was to write class which would be similiar to MFC class CWnd. This class wraps basic funcionality of today custom item and defines basic behaviour overridable by developer.

Scott Hunter's Really Cool Pocket PC Page

• Today Screen Programming Advice
  Several very useful tips about creating Today plug-ins.

Sample Chapters from Books

• Writing a Custom Today Screen Item
  06/13/2001. The Today screen is the home page of the Pocket PC. It's automatically displayed after the system isn't used for a predetermined period of time. It contains a snapshot of the relevant data from the applications bundled with the Pocket PC. By using a simple DLL, you can extend the Today screen to allow other applications to summarize their data or to allow stand-alone Today screen inserts that provide data only through the Today screen.

Libraries

• STTodayDialog
  C++ library. This library allows you develop dialog based application that works correctly with Today Pocket PC build-in program (it's a known bug that dialog based applications created with MFC wizards are shown then user starts Today program).