create custom app beginners help

i'm trying to create an app for my WM6 Standard samsung i200. for hat app, i got several questions

1. how do i add a custom button to the outlook contacts menu that launches my app WITH a special form open?
2. how do i connect to a DB (the db must be on the device itself)

The app (when finished) should be able to do the follwing:

1. find a contact through the outlook contacts menu
2. display, add, edit or delete extra data for that contact (computers)
3. the extra data should contain the following items
   
   • computername
   • processor (selectable through dropdown list)
   • processor speed (selectable through dropdown list)
   • ram (selectable through dropdown list)
   • videocard (selectable through dropdown list)
   • videocard ram (selectable through dropdown list)
   • add several harddiscs to the computer (must be more then 1, virtually unlimited)
   • list installed software on the computer (addable by seperate list)
   • Problems that the computer had
   • Solutions for those problems
   • Extra hardware (Must be more then 1, virtually unlimited)
   • memobox for extra information not handled in the above list
   • it should be possible to add more then 1 computer to a contact

i have experience programming, but unfortunatly in Delphi (pascal) i have done vb in the past, but it was only VBA and that was years ago.

Hi,
for option 1, I think you would have to develop a plug-in for pocket outlook to add a new menu item to pocket outlook.

Option 2 - you need to look at SQL Server Compact Edition it is a full relational database for Windows Mobile. There are numerous samples on this site, and generally on how to use it.

Pete

Do you have any examples for option 1 in vb.net?? i'm searching for sollutions foroption 2 so that is ok...

Hi,
going to have to be C++ I think for a plug-in - sorry

Pete

so any example in c++ then form me?? (if possible including comments to how and what??)

Not from me I'm afraid - Try this

thanks for that, but it isn't going to help, as i want only a dll with the code to add the menu and a seperate app (written in vb.net with CF ofcourse) wich should respond to that menu...
it contains way to much clutter to figure out what is what...

That app seems to do everything you want, you just have to adapt it and remove some code - if not, then google is your friend :)

as i said, the app contains way to much clutter to start scraping in that code.... and besides google isn't my friend, as he couldn't find a single example without clutter...

Adding to outlook isn't a beginners task.

You could design your app to list the contacts from pocket outlook, and go about it that way instead.