January 2006 - Posts
I had an interesting discussion with someone from India last night about embedded software development, one of the subjects we discussed was why someone should consider using Managed (C#/VB) vs. Native (C/C++) application development. Perhaps some of
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We've seen just how easy it is to build a Point of Service device using the WEPOS (Windows Embedded for Point of Service) SDK , I wrote the code needed to support a Barcode Scanner in about two minutes using around 10 lines of code, adding additional
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Rory Blyth of MSDN fame has created a series of Windows Mobile application development tutorials - the latest talks about using the notification, camera, and message interception API's - it's worth taking a look, here's a link to the blog . - Mike
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Here's my code to read barcode data and display the data in a ListBox - of course this could also be extended to lookup the barcode data in a SQL Database or XML file and provide more information like "Grande Vanilla Latte", "Lemon Pound Cake", and todays
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I'm working on a demo to show at Embedded World in Germany next month - My plan is to show how Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded, and Windows Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS) can streamline your embedded operating system development experience in much
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Some time ago I recorded an interview with John Eldridge (Windows CE Architect) to talk about Windows CE 5.0 real-time capabilities, the video has now gone live on the MSDN/Embedded tutorials page . Enjoy. <Update> The feed is currently broken -
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MEDC 2006 is drawing ever closer, all the signs are there, yesterday was the first monster session review meeting, this required all content/track owners to spend more than three hours reviewing the submitted sessions and take the first cut on sessions
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Chris Lanfear inustry analyst on Embedded Systems has started a blog On Target: Embedded Systems (actually started in December 2005) - Looks like this might be worth keeping an eye on... Chris has covered a number of subjects, including a look at Windows
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Last night I was over at Chris Pirillo's house with Vikram Dendi (Vik lives in the office next to me) Chris was busy recording The Chris Pirillo Show - This weeks show covering Windows Evangelism and Automation There were a number of well known faces
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Embedded.com have just published an article/case study on the use of Windows CE 4.2 in a Satellite Compass devloped by Raytheon Marine GmbH and Garz & Fricke Read the article and let me know what your think the take outs are... (I know what I think
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Windows CE (as we all know by now) is a small footprint, hard real-time, componentized, embedded operating system that gets used in a range of cool and interesting devices, from cow milking machines, medical devices, industrial control systems, robots,
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There are some interesting case studies on the Windows/Embedded web site - Devices include medical, industrial control, robotics, crane safety devices, and other cool devices. Chaveriat Robotique : Robot Manufacturer Wins Market Share Thanks to New Programming
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A few days ago I asked a question about operating systems and frameworks ( Coding - Hare or Tortoise ) - This seems to have spun an interesting discussion (feel free to jump in!) and has also prompted some questions about how to boot a .NET Compact Framework
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Like many of you I installed one of the pre-release versions of Visual Studio 2005 and started coding desktop and device applications - once the RTM bits were available I duly uninstalled everything and then installed the RTM bits. Since then I've been
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Marcus Perryman has posted information about MEDC 2006 Europe (Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference) - this is running June 6-8 in Nice, south of France (which is going to be awesome!). I first presented at the Acropolis Conference Center in 1997
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If you were not able to attend this months WE-DIG meeting you missed a great presentation by Barry Bond - Chris Muench (author of the world famous Pocket Jongg .NET application for Pocket PC devices!) recorded the session which has now been posted to
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Andy Allred (and team) have posted a useful list of resources for Windows XP Embedded developers - here's a link to the XPE Blog post . - Mike
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Check out the MSDN Channel 9 interview with Suzan DelBene , VP in the Mobile and Embedded Devices group <snip>Meet corporate vice president Suzan DelBene as she talks about the smallest but fastest growing division at Microsoft, the mobile and embedded
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You have a product to build, this requires an embedded operating system (of course!) and applications/services - you have a choice of application development tools, languages and frameworks Assembler - small, fast, error prone, takes for ever to code
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Remember the delegate parties from the last two years Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference (MEDC) events and the awesome Sumobot competitions ? Anyone interested in taking part in a Sumo competition at this years MEDC ? Would it be absolutely awsome
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At last evenings WE-DIG meeting Barry Bond developed the core of an ARM emulator, all written in "C" in a console based application in Visual Studio 2005, this included code for the cpu, memory, and peripherals - this was a cracking session, all code,
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This is a little odd, 12 AMD Geode GX thin client reference boards (RDK) have appeared on eBay link here - at the time of this posting the bid is open for another two days - starting bid per board is $199.95 The board is capable of running Windows CE,
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Geekzone have a blog article that shows a DualCor cPC device that runs two Micrososft operating systems (each running on their own processor), Windows XP and Windows Mobile (which is of course Windows CE 5.0) - the operating systems share the single display
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During the BillG Keyote CES the Toshiba Gigabeat was shown for the first time, the Gigabeat is a version 2.0 Portable Media Center device, devices come with up to 60GB storage - more information here and on the CNET news site - Portable Media Centers
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Check this out, on the Engadget site there's an overview of the Dresser Wayne Ovation iX Windows CE powered gas pump - this was displayed at CES (outside the convention center next to the Windows Automotive area) - The device has a 10.1" LCD panel that
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Here's a question for all of the Windows Mobile users out there... Windows Mobile devices (Pocket PC and Smartphone) ship with a number of built in applications (Internet Explorer, Media Player, Office applications etc...), what (if anything) have you
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Anyone that's worked with Windows CE or Windows Mobile devices has probably at some time or another come across the "Platform Manager", also known as PlatMan, also see my MSDN article on writing Remote Tools for Windows CE - with Visual Studio 2005 there's
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I'm going to be at CES for the week, sharing time between customer meetings and booth duty - I'm hoping to get some time to look around the (absolutely massive) event [you don't get a feel for how big CES is until you've been to one]. Let me know if there's
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