POOM and other mobile devolpment issues

I am writing an app that will use POOM to grab PIM data from Pocket Outlook and let me view it. I have ran into multiple walls. The foremost being the development environment.

I am currently using VC++ with the PocketPC 2003SDK environment. I am unable to use namespace (not supported) or cin/cout or strings. I have included all specified and required header files (iostream, ios, istream, ostream, string, cstring) and still do not have access to cin/cout and strings.

In regards to POOM, I cannot establish a connection. The application doesn't even compile. I have copy/pasted the code from Microsoft's MSDN regarding the 2003 POOM API but to no avail. The project doesn't know what CSLID_IPOutlookApp is, and neither do I.

Any help would be much appreciated.

matiez