November 2006 - Posts
Since I had a couple of hours to burn on Monday evening waiting for the snow bound traffic to clear I decided to pave my laptop hard drive, install Vista and all of my usual development tools - including Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Beta
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I've had a number of people asking about availability of a CE 6.0 version of CEFileWiz - you can download the latest version of CEFileWiz here . - Mike
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John Spaith explains what happened to DCOM in CE 6.0 - you may have noticed that DCOM (Remoting) is not part of the CE 6.0 catalog - John also hints at what might be happening to DCOM Remoting. - Mike
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Yep, here it is, the Windows Mobile team Snowman - Heading to a meeting in the next building I could see that the Windows Mobile team had been busy building a snowman outside of their building reception. Just one question - Was the snowman built by Program
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CE 6.0 ships with a number of new/updated features - this includes tools integration into Visual Studio 2005 (which provides updates to MFC, ATL, STL, WTL, compilers, C++ language conformance etc...) - kernel changes to support more than 32 processes
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While I was waiting for Vista and Office 2007 to install and for 148th to stop being packed with traffic I decided to go make myself a cup of coffee (since the Starbucks in the Cafe had already closed) - I spotted the following right next to the existing
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John Spaith has posted some information about porting services to CE 6.0 - here's a link to the blog post . - Mike
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It's Monday November 27th at about 8pm in sunny old redmond - late afternoon it started snowing - you can see from the photo below that it's only a couple of inches of snow on the ground, this has brought the roads in/out of Redmond to a stand still -
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This is kinda cool - a handheld "furry" wireless mouse like device created by Patrick Baudisch from Microsoft Research - the video includes instructions for building the device. - Mike
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If you are interested in presenting a session at MEDC 2007 you have 11 days remaining to submit your session or lab title/abstract - go here to submit your session or lab information . Time to get busy! - Mike
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Adding the Platform Manager component to a CE 6.0 operating system design will generate build errors for a platform - the error will read something like: Error: Could not find file 'C:\WINCE600\OSDesigns\<Release Dir Path>\cemgrc.exe' on disk The
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The December WE-DIG meeting will be covering the Windows XP Embedded Feature Pack 2007 - note that the meeting will be held at Microsoft Campus Building 118/Mt Si Room. See you there... - Mike
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The Windows XP Embedded team have been hard at work on Image Diff and have just released an updated evaluation version (link to the Windows Embedded Image Diff Blog Post ). The Windows XP Embedded team are looking for feedback on the updated tool - in
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Collection 5150: Developing Microsoft® Windows Mobile® 5.0 Applications Using Microsoft Visual Studio® 2005 is now available. This 12 hour collection teaches how to develop, deploy and maintain Windows Mobile 5.0 applications. These courses will also
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The .NET MicroFramework team have recoreded an Introduction to the .NET MicroFramework webcast - if you are new to the .NET MicroFramework or want to get an overview of the tools/technologies then this would be a good starting point for you. - Mike
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The world-wide trip is now over and I'm back in (surprisingly) sunny Seattle - just need to get to the airport - the transportation was just amazing ! - didn't take as long to get to the airport as I expected... The red blanket is used to ward off evil
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Yet another CE 6.0 Virtual Lab hist the web - this is the CE 6.0 Platform Builder tools lab - this lab will walk you through the steps to configure, build, debug, and boot a CE 6.0 operating system image and also introduces you to the new registry editor,
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There are a growing number of shared source projects for CE 5.0 and CE 6.0 which are being published on CodePlex and GotDotNet - There's a web page that is keeping track of the projects here - this includes projects like OpenSSH, MPEG-2 Demux, WiFi Driver,
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The final NxtGenUG Podcast from TechEd 2006 Barcelona has just been posted - it's the "Girly Friday" podcast, I tried to get into the podcast but got rumbled. - Mike
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This is probably the last post from Yokohama, tomorrow I fly back to Seattle after a couple of extremely interesting weeks on the road. Today was the Embedded Technology Conference running in Yokohama, Microsoft ran a "private" conference for the launch
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Thanks to Sarah Blow for the photo evidence... at 12:00 (lunchtime) on the last day of TechEd 2006 Developers we gave away a speaker shirt signed by all of the Mobile and Embedded people presenting (or working on the booth) at TechEd 2006 Developers Europe
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This evening we had rehearsals for the CE 6.0 launch event being held at Embedded Technology 2006 in Yokohama, Japan. The Windows Embedded launch seminar is being held as a Private conference (see below) with 700 attendees registered for the event - after
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John Spaith, developer in the CE Netowrking team has posted an overview of the new Location Framework to the CE Netowkring blog - I'm hoping to get some samples put together to show this working, perhaps I will add this to my list of demos for when I
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James Kim, Senior Editor at c|net takes a look at the new Zune - here's a link to the c|net video - more c|net coverage here I have a Zune player with me on the road that I've been using to play music and video content which was excellent for the recent
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I've now arrived at the Royal Park Hotel in Yokohama, Japan after an 11 hour and 30 minute flight from London/Heathrow and 90 minutes on a train - jetlag is a wonderful thing The trip from Narita airport to Yokohama was extremely simple - thanks to everyone
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The MEDC 2007 call for papers is now out - this gives speakers or potential speakers the chance to submit sessions and labs for the event - of course speakers will submit the sessions they feel comfortable presenting - so that's the speakers, but what
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It's Tuesday 14th November, I'm in Reading/UK, this afternoon I fly out to Japan to present at the CE 6.0 launch event - This morning is my last opportunity to sample great British food in the form of a full english breakfast - so here it is... bacon
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Last week was TechEd Developers 2006, Barcelona, Spain - I like the way the conference has been split into a Developers conference and an ITPro Conference. I spent Monday and part of Tuesday of this week in the Microsoft UK TVP ( Thames Valley Park )
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Even more shared source projects are available for you to download - here's the latest releases... · Open SSH enables to access a Windows CE device remotely in a secure manner using the SSH protocol. It can execute remote commands on the device, but it
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The MEDC 2007 Call for Papers is now live! (I can't believe this has come around so quickly). Sessions for this year fall into the following categories: Building Embedded Devices Application Development Managing Windows Mobile Devices Business Market
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We've just released a new Virtual Lab covering Windows XP Embedded SP2 Feature Pack 2007 - this is an introductory level lab that covers the basics of running Target Analyzer, using Component Designer to create a component, using Target Designer to configure
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Just arrived in the UK from Barcelona and collected a rental car for a few days (I have meetings in the Microsoft TVP/Reading office on Monday and Tuesday morning), I have a hotel booked in the center of Reading - getting from London Heathrow to the edge
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Rich and Dave were planning to record and interview with me at TechEd for the NxtGenUg podcast - These boys are slackers, I kept trying to get on the podcast and eventually had to do it myself, including running the interview, and uploading the content!
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If you are at TechEd 2006 in Barcelona and would be interested in getting a speaker shirt signed by some of the mobile/embedded speakers (Olivier, Sarah, Moth, Goony Dog and possibly me also - plus anyone else we can get to sign the shirt). We will giveaway
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The Moth has been presenting a number of sessions at TechEd 2006 covering a range of subjects including Vista for managed developers, selecting the best windows mobile technology, Windows Mobile 5.0 managed development, and compact framework for desktop
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I've just attended a robotics studio session at TechEd Europe given by Martin Calsyn who used to work in the Robotics Studio team (and now works for Coroware based in Barcelona/Spain) - this was an excellent session and a great introduction to the tools
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I've seen a couple of people having problems using the remote tools from Visual Studio 2005 against a Windows Embedded CE 6.0 operating system image - when you try to connect the remote tools to a running operating system image you get an error similar
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How do attendees and speakers make it through a full week of attending/presenting sessions ? - coffee and sugar - interestingly, the Oracle booth at TechEd Europe has a Chocolate Fountain with donuts, fruit and other items to dip in to the chocolate stream
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If you were not able to attend TechEd 2006 in Barcelona but want to get a feel for what's going on at the conference then you need to join Paul Foster and the Virtual Side Paul has been recording a series of interviews with speakers at TechEd Europe,
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This evening was the TechEd 2006 Barcelona Speaker Party held in the Hard Rock Cafe in Barcelona - the place was full of speakers, interesingly the danish attendee party appeared to be running at the same time/place. TechEd is a really interesting event,
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We've recently launched CE 6.0 and XPE Feature Pack 2007 through a Virtual Launch - this means that ALL content keynote, labs, and sessions are available for the live event and also online after launch for anyone world-wide to view or take labs. The Virtual
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Yet another useful shared source project has recently been posted to CodePlex, this is Open SSH for Windows CE - Mike
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The WE-DIG December 6th meeting will be covering Windows XP Embedded SP2 Feature Pack 2007 - the speaker for the meeting will be Shabnam Erfani, Lead Program Manager for Windows XP Embedded who also presented one of the Embedded Launch sessions on November
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If you're in Korea and are interested in a Windows Embedded Blog in local language then you should check out the Jinho Seo Embedded blog I will link to other local embedded blogs as I get the URLs. - Mike
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Today is day one of TechEd 2006 Barcelona, the day got started with a keynote given by Simon Brown from Microsoft EMEA and Eric Rudder Senior Vice President, Microsoft Redmond. Simon introduced the Imagine Cup 07 (finals in Korea) and also introced a
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Meet Dave Baker Embedded DPE from the UK, Dave is presenting at TechEd 2006 Barcelona on Windows XP Embedded. Dave has a number of demos during his session, one of which is "Super Cool" (you will see why shortly) - Dave has a PC/104 Cool RoadRunner 4
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we have a number of embedded sessions at TechEd 2006 Barcelona - Olivier Bloch , DPE group at Microsoft France (pictured below) is presenting a session on Windows Embedded for Point of Service tomorrow afternoon. Dave Baker from the Embedded DPE group
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This week I'm in Barcelona for TechEd Europe - the weather is great, it's about 60F (much better than the freezing, wet weather in Seattle when I left!). I have a Samsung i320 to play with for the week (see image below) - for the last few months I've
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If you've wondered how virtual memory works, or why an operating system needs virtual memory then Sue Loh has written a great article over on the CE_Base blog that explains how it works and why it's useful. - Mike
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It's Sunday 5th November (Bonfire night aka Firework night or Guy Fawkes night in the UK - I wonder whether the celebration of Bonfire night is celebrating the fact that Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up the UK parliament building or whether he was caught
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For the CE 6.0 and XPE Feature Pack Launch we posted seven virtual labs online (only five are currently live, we're still waiting for the other two to propogate out to the live servers). I'm interested in getting your feedback on the labs - Are the labs
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If you have existing CE 5.0 based applications or DLLs you probably want to determine whether these are going to work ok with CE 6.0 - The CE 6.0 product ships with an application compatibility tool called CeAppCompat - this is a command line tool that
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