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In the past, the Windows CE file explorer required every File System Driver (FSD) to perform call-back notifications after every file system change. This notification mechanism allowed file explorer to quickly refresh open views when files were added...

Posted By: Sue Loh I actually got a fourth question from Gursharan, but it is a separate topic so I'm breaking it out into a different post. This is in reference to one of my previous blog posts . Q4. So winCE cannot address RAM larger than 512...

In interacting with the FSDMGR and its helper functions, there are two pseudo-handle types that will be used: HDSK and HVOL (these types are defined in fsdmgr.h). While there is a one-to-one mapping of HDSK to HVOL, they are not the same construct. The...

Posted by: Sue Loh I got some great questions from one of our former Windows Embedded Student Challenge finalists, Gursharan. I thought it would make a good blog post, so with his permission I'm answering his questions here. Q1. The windows CE...

File system drivers can be loaded in two different ways: loaded in response to a disk being attached to the system (discovered during boot or after media insertion), and auto-loaded during the boot sequence. Auto-Loaded File Systems Auto-loaded file...

A Seattle native, I started work at Microsoft in August 2000 as a Software Design Engineer writing tests for Windows CE drivers and file system components. In 2003 I joined the product development team and have been designing, developing, and maintaining...

In Windows CE 5.0, we added a new FSD API: FSD_GetVolumeInfo . This API is used to populate the CE_VOLUME_INFO structure reported by the CeGetVolumeInfo SDK API. This function is intended to give applications insight into properties of the file system...

FSDMGR provides many helper functions to make developing an FSD easier. In particular, registry helper functions provide a simple mechanism for configuring an FSD for a particular storage device and I/O helper functions provide a media-independent mechanism...