October 2006 - Posts
Get ready to take Windows Embedded CE 6.0 and Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007 for a test drive - we now have a series of " Virtual Labs " available for you to get "hands on" with the tools and technologies. Labs include. CE 6.0 Introduction
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On November 1st the Evaluation kit for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 will be available for download - since it's already November 1st in Australia that means that you can download the evaluation kit now from here . If you are living in other parts of the world
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I've been building a demo for Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007 - the demo boots a custom C# .NET Framework 2.0 application as the custom shell - the application displays images from a folder (like an electronic picture frame) and can
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Even the MSDN Channel9 guy is getting into the halloween spirit. - Mike
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Starting in the spring of 2007, Daylight Saving Time (DST) start and end dates for the United States will transition to comply with the Energy Policy Act of 2005. DST dates in the United States will start three weeks earlier (2:00 A.M. on the second Sunday
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Today Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007 was released to manufacturing (RMTd) - the eval drop of the Feature Pack is now available for download here . More information about Feature Pack 2007 will be available at the Virtual Launch event
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Rory Blyth , the newest recruit to MSDN Channel 9 dropped by on Friday afternoon - about a year ago (almost exactly a year ago) Rory dropped by and we recorded a Podcast interview discussing Windows CE, Windows Mobile, an a host of other things. This
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If you are writing C#/VB code you might be interested in some of the code snippets that are available for download from the Visual Studio 2005 Code Snippets page - looks like there are some useful snippets there for common tasks like downloading a file
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I'm setting up a CE 6.0 operating system image that boots with the standard explorer shell (desktop icons, start button etc.) when the image boots I want the task bar to auto-hide and also not be 'on top' in the Z order. To figure out which key this uses
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We have some of the first Full Packaged Product (FPP) boxes of Windows Embedded CE 6.0 here in the office - here's how the new boxes look, pretty sweet! - Mike
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At TechEd 2006 Developers/Europe I'm delivering DEV211 "CE 6.0, What's new for Embedded Developers" on Tuesday November 7th at 11:30am - of course this session is covering Windows Embedded CE 6.0, if you're not interested in embedded development why should
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November 1st is the launch event for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 and Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007 That also means that it's time to get out of sunny old Redmond and go talk to people about the new releases, first stop will be TechEd
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The CE 6.0 and XP Embedded Feature Pack launch event is getting close (November 1st!) and you can virtually be at the event (or should that be "at the event virtually"?) - for the launch this year we will have a live (or should that be Windows Live?)
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Can you believe that today was the first meeting of the content owners for MEDC 2007 (the Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference) It seems like we've only just completed the MEDC 2006 event series and here we are kicking off planning for the next one.
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There's another technical article covering XPESP2FP2k7 FBWF posted on W4D today. Here's a link to the article . - Mike
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For the last couple of years we've been running the Windows Embedded Student Challenge (WESC) which has been a ton of fun both for the students and also for the judges - this year brings a change to the competition with the Windows Embedded Student Challenge
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Whew! - that title sure did take some time to type... Perhaps I will shorten this to XPESP2FP2k7 in future... One of the really cool updates for XPESP2FP2k7 is the addition of a command line build tool, this can either be used in interactive mode (typing
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WE-DIG are running a .NET MicroFramework SumoRobot competition - The neat thing about this competition is that you don't need a SumoRobot to take part - instead, you get to program your robot using the .NET MicroFramework SumoRobot Emulator - once you
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Microsoft has three embedded operating systems, these are... Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Windows XP Embedded SP2 (and Feature Pack 2007 coming soon) Windows Embedded for Point of Service If you also include the .NET MicroFramework then that's four embedded
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Windows Embedded CE 6.0 introduces a new kernel architecture to support kernel mode drivers (user mode drivers are still supported through a user mode driver manager called udevice.exe, interestingly, with CE 6.0 you can have multiple instances of udevice.exe,
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I've had a number of questions come through on e-mail about the recently announced Windows Embedded CE 6.0 RTM (Release to Manufacturing ), many of the questions relate to Windows Mobile and are asking questions like "Since you have just announced Windows
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I've updated CEFileWiz to now support CE 4.2, 5.0, and the new CE 6.0 release - you can get the CEFileWiz update from here (note that this is a Visual Studio 2005 C# .NET Framework 2.0 application, so you will need the .NET Framework 2.0 installed to
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If you are looking at building mobile aware applications (and who isn't these days?) for Windows Mobile or Mobile PC's then you may be interested in attending the Mobile Connections Conference in Las Vegas, November 6-9. With speakers like Loke Uei ,
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The Microsoft RoboticsStudio team have just announced the availability of the Robotics Studio October Community Tech Preview There are a number of new features (check out the feature list here ) including New Simulation Support. Go download the bits today
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Here's another great reason for you to take part in the Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007 Communuty Technology Preview . You can access the Image Difference Engine Evaluation tool via the same Microsoft Connect website as the Feature
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The following question is taken from SlashDot An anonymous reader asks: "Our startup honestly wanted to use OSS products. We do not want to spend time for any OSS bug fixing so our main requirement was -official support for all OSS products-. We thought
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The Windows XP Embedded development team are working on a series of articles that describe the updates that are coming in Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007. The first article written by Lynda Allen is posted on WindowsForDevices.com
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The CE 6.0 development tools will be shipping as a plug in to Visual Studio 2005 - you can develop your CE 6.0 based operating system image using Platform Builder (the CE development tool), download and debug the operating system to the ARM based Device
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Windows CE 5.0 introduced a cool update to Platform Builder Projects (PBPs), CE 5.0 sub-projects can have their own unique copies of BIB, DAT, REG, DB files, and also the addition of postlink.bat into a project - Postlink.bat can be used for any post-link
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A typical Windows CE 5.0 install would place a number of folders on your development PC, the baseline folder was typically installed to C:\WINCE500 and a number of sub-folders were installed under the C:\WINCE500 folder, these included PLATFORM (hardware
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