After the hard work of the team in the last 2 months or so, here we are excited to announce the second Community Tech Preview (CTP) is available for download! Yes, it’s right on time!
Up to date, we have around 1500 downloads of the first CTP and 60 bugs submitted by participants. Thank you!
In this new CTP download, you’ll find these improvements (not an exhaustive list):
General:- Improved overall test coverage and quality of the feature pack while incorporating bug fixes and enhancements based on feedback from the first CTP participants. Your feedback at work :-).- Added component help and other enhancements to the documentation accompanying this build. Note that the latest documentation needs to be downloaded separately from the build and accessed by opening the .chm files directly.USB Boot:- Improved formatufd.exe to support NTFS formatting and creation of partitions needed by EWF and renamed it to ufdprep.exe.- A new, automatic way to include USB boot feature in the configuration eliminating the need for manual steps in the previous CTP.- A version of ntdetect with debugging information called “usbntd.chk” available in the ValueAdd folder on the CD.File Based Write Filter:- New files can now be committed to disk without committing the whole overlay.- Support for NTFS compression has been added.Components:- Included a number of component enhancements that provide better configuration, reduced footprint or better visibility. - Added a new macro component for Virtual PC that enables you to build an image easily for running in the Virtual PC environment.- Have a new component for configuring MessageBox pop-ups, which can be used to turn off pop-ups on headless devices.- Factored SNMP out of the IIS Webserver component which results in reduced footprint for devices that don’t use SNMP.More information about this second CTP can be found on our Connect site. If you signed up before, then you should have gotten this mail copied at the bottom. If you haven't signed up yet, it's open to the public! Just follow these instructions, login and download the ISO image (backup your DB and repositories before installing):1) Visit the Microsoft Connect Web site (http://connect.microsoft.com).2) Click Invitations on the Connect menu.3) You will need to sign in using a valid Windows Live ID before you can continue to the Invitations page. 4) Enter your Invitation ID in the box. Your invitation ID is: 123-BC7M-6GVK5) Click Go.6) If you have not previously registered with Microsoft Connect, you might be required to register before you continue with the invitation process. 7) You will then be asked to complete a User Profile survey for the program.
As always, we love to hear your feedback and/or questions. You can email us, post them to the newsgroup or come to our live public chat. The next chat is scheduled at 10am-11am PST, Thursday, Oct 19th, 2006. For more info on the chat, please check MSDN chat calendar page at http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/.Alright, enjoy the “fresh cookies” just out of the oven! Have fun!- Wendy
From: Microsoft Connect Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 6:56 AMSubject: Second CTP Build Available for Feature Pack 2007 Dear Feature Pack 2007 CTP Participant, Today we made a second build of the Community Tech Preview (CTP) for Feature Pack 2007 available on the Microsoft Connect website: https://connect.microsoft.com/windowsxpembedded/Downloads! This build was made available thanks to all of the great feedback we have received thus far from the CTP. We have included updates to USB boot, FBWF and several component enhancements. For more detailed information about what is new in this second CTP build please read the Connect website: https://connect.microsoft.com/windowsxpembedded/. Please download this build and help us improve the quality and reliability of Feature Pack 2007 with your valuable feedback. Additionally, the product group will be hosting a live public chat on Thursday, October 19th from 10-11am PST. Please join to meet with the Developers, Test Engineers and Program Managers of Feature Pack 2007 to get your comments and questions heard and answered. You can join the chat through MSDN chat site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/. Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you, - The Windows Embedded Team If you do not wish to receive e-mail messages from Microsoft Connect in the future, please send e-mail to mchelp@microsoft.com with the subject line: "Remove From List." Information on how to contact Microsoft Connect support is found on the Contact Us page within the Microsoft Connect Web site.This is an unmonitored e-mail address, so please do not reply to this message.
From: Microsoft Connect Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 6:56 AMSubject: Second CTP Build Available for Feature Pack 2007
Dear Feature Pack 2007 CTP Participant,
Today we made a second build of the Community Tech Preview (CTP) for Feature Pack 2007 available on the Microsoft Connect website: https://connect.microsoft.com/windowsxpembedded/Downloads! This build was made available thanks to all of the great feedback we have received thus far from the CTP. We have included updates to USB boot, FBWF and several component enhancements. For more detailed information about what is new in this second CTP build please read the Connect website: https://connect.microsoft.com/windowsxpembedded/. Please download this build and help us improve the quality and reliability of Feature Pack 2007 with your valuable feedback.
Additionally, the product group will be hosting a live public chat on Thursday, October 19th from 10-11am PST. Please join to meet with the Developers, Test Engineers and Program Managers of Feature Pack 2007 to get your comments and questions heard and answered. You can join the chat through MSDN chat site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/.
Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you,
- The Windows Embedded Team
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The second Community Tech Preview of Feature Pack 2007 was released last week. If you haven’t downloaded
I just downloaded the FP, but when I try to run the tools update I get the error: "Error 1324. The path Windows Embedded Images contains an invalid character."
The installer then exits. What am I to do?
Thanks,
Alan
Hi Alan, can you file a bug at the connect site please so this gets onto the Dev's radar?
What is the path to the Images folder right now? (c:\program files\...?).
Please also check out this InstallShield help page on that error:
http://consumer.installshield.com/kb.asp?id=Q108470
Let us know if this helps or not.
Andy
Thanks for the reply. The InstallShield page gives two possible problems, one being a special character in my profile name. The other possibility is that my CD-ROM drive is using a real mode driver.
Using their suggestions, I've ruled out the CD-ROM route. My profile is stored under "c:\documents and settings\alan.lanteigne\" so it's possible the "." is throwing something.
What do you mean "Images" folder right now? I'm not sure what that is, but XPe is currently installed to the folder: "C:\Program Files\Windows Embedded"
Is that what you're looking for?
The error string you copied says "...The path Windows Embedded Images contains an invalid character".
The XPe product has 3 interesting root folders it's concerned with:
1. .\program files\Windows Embedded
2. <some large partition>\Windows Embedded Data
3. <some large partition>\Windows Embedded Images
I say '<some large partition>' because the tools installer for SP1 locates the partition with the most amount of free space on it and creates these 2 folders for your SQL DB file, the 3GB+ of repositories and the many many XPe runtime images you'll be building in Target Designer. On my dev machine it's E:\windows embedded images\, in your case it could be C:, D:\, etc...
That images folder '<some large partition>\Windows Embedded Images', for some reason, appears to be called out in the error you reported as having an invalid char. Does that path exist or is there anything weird about it?
Hmm. I don't seem to have those two folders. My DB & repository are on a server running MS SQL. Could this be the cause?
Try to identify the folder path and see if there is anything associated with it that is relevant to the Installshield help article.
If in doubt, please file a bug at the msconnect site that you downloaded the FP, the dev team will investigate.
Thank you
Alan, could you please post the contents of the following registry value? This will help us in investigating the cause of your issue:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Embedded\BuildRoot
This path should be in the form of "X:\Windows Embedded Images\" (no quotes), where X is the partition on your system that has the most free space (or did at the time the original tools were installed). Please ensure that the drive letter shown in this registry value is correct - if your partition structure has changed since you installed the tools, you might need to update this registry value manually. You might also try retyping it in case there is an invalid, invisible character somewhere in this string (though "invalid" characters will usually appear as rectangles or multinational characters).
Since your database and repository files reside on a remote machine, you can safely ignore the "Windows Embedded Data" path that was mentioned earlier.
Thanks!
-- Matt, SDET with the XP Embedded Team
Sorry for the delay, we just moved to a new building here. Here's my value for HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Embedded\BuildRoot:
E:\Windows Embedded Images\
E: is the drive assignment for my DVD reader. I will update this value to D:, my data partition and see what happens...