Intro

Welcome to the lsp_helper project. This project will provide the code necassary to create LSPs on Windows CE and Windows Mobile.

History

* CE 4.x: There was an LSP sample published, this sample had several issues, some of these are documented here
* I started writing LSPs for CE 5.0 and realized the sample was substandard, and created an lsphelper(1.0) to assist in developing the dtptlsp and autobindlsp.

Today

This project exists to produce lsphelper(2.0). lsphelper(2.0) started as the lsphelper(1.0) codebase, and is open to feedback from LSP developers. With your feedback, we'll create lsp_helper(2.0) and make it useful to the entire LSP developer community.


Once lsp_helper(2.0) is validated with the LSP community, I hope to integrate it back into the CE 6.0 tree, so that all CE LSPs will be written on the same helper library.

Goals

All CE and WM LSPs will be built using a common library.
* Issues caused by broken LSP installer code will no longer occur.
* Only code that differs from the default pass through behavior will need to be written.
* Clients of lsphelper can be rebuilt easily when new version of lsphelper are released.

What is available now

lsp_install. This is the correct LSP installation code that I describe here

What will be available shortly

* lsp helper samples - a set of sample LSPs built using lsp_helper.
* lsp_helper - a library that will allow you to create LSPs meeting the above code.