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Another Suggestion
If you are going to go the Embedded tools route and are new to Windows programming I would suggest getting a Windows programming book. I got MFC From the Ground Up ver. 2.0. Don't rember the author right now, but it was very detailed. Started you out with simple programs not using the built in wizards so that you could understand what all the code was for. Then towards the end of the book it explains the wizards and how they work and how they make life easier.
If you already understand C/C++ making the move to Windows/event type programming is too difficult. I never programmed for the desktop, but I was up and going in less than a week for my ppc application.
As for installing the dev tools. The only issue that I experienced was if you try to install the PPC 2002 SDK and you don't have Win 2K or WinXP. If you don't then it won't install, but it does clearly state this on the web site. Other than that, the rest of the SDKs and the actual development tools will install without a hitch. It takes up quite a bit of space though. One last thing is that if you are running Win98 then the emulators will not work and you will have to download all the apps to your ppc in order to test them, but if you have Win 2K or WinXP then you can use the emulators to do your development.
Hope that helps,
-Eric
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