Hi--
I'm new to the Win CE environment and am looking for advice before committing myself to take on a small project.

A local health clinic has an Access database that they use to track some aspects of clinic performance. Records are things like patient arrival time, demographic info, which departments they visit, time they leave. They have the DB set up using forms that work fine. Rather than lug a laptop around, they'd like to collect data with a PC 2003 IPAQ. They've essentially asked me to write a Pocket PC-based data collection program. I thought I might do it to help them out.

From what I can piece together, I should be able to do something that uses Pocket Access files (which could be merged with the desktop DB as needed).

I'm fairly comfortable with VB (though I haven't used databases with it), and I'd rather not use C++. After looking on the web, my first thought was eVB, but it appears that's not really an option with PC 2003. Is that right? Will it handle both the gui forms and the Pocket Access data file format in a relatively straightforward way?

So what is the best approach? Is it Visual Studio.NET 2003 with the Pocket PC 2003 SDK? Is there another approach that I haven't discovered?

How clumsy a task is this likely to be? Is syncing the PDA to the desktop going to be very straightforward, or will it be a completely separate problem?

Is there a particularly useful book with examples someone can point me to?

Thanks in advance--
Rick