As many of my team mates have been doing over the last few weeks I am working on my content for my MEDC 2007 presentations. I have dry run practices this week that I am scrambling to get ready for. This year has seen the greatest ever contribution from the whole XP Embedded team - almost everyone has written content and create Virtual PC images for the Hands-On Labs, or Instructor-led labs. Many of...

This is just a reminder that support for XP Embedded SP1 ends on April 10th, 2007 . Refer to my last post on this subject for more information or visit the Microsft Support Lifecycle Site . Lynda

Introduction With the recent release of .NET Framework 3.0 for Windows XP Pro, XP embedded customers have been requesting to have .NET Framework 3.0 support for Windows XP Embedded (or XPe) platform. The objective of this article is to enable the users of Windows XP Embedded SP2 to install .NET Framework 3.0 on XPe runtimes using the .NET Framework 3.0 desktop distribution package for XP Pro. Components...

Overview A componentized version of Windows Media Player 11 will be launched as part of the upcoming XPe Feature Preview 2008. This component will be compatible with XPe Feature Pack 2007. If you don’t have FP2007, or you have a more immediate need to use WMP11 in your SP2 embedded application, you can create an image that contains all the component dependencies required to support installing WMP11...

Thursday last week saw me dashing off the airport right after the last MVP session to catch a plane to Phoenix, Arizona, to participate in Academic Days held at the Arizona State University campus for Advanced Computing. The conference was a federated one where a number of different product groups across the company provided faculty members with introductory training on their products and academic...

Last week the Microsoft Redmond Campus played host to our MVPs from around the world. The MVP Summit is a yearly event that includes ALL MVPs for all Microsoft products. We had about 10 XP Embedded MVPs join us this year (from Europe, Asia and the USA) and we hosted 4 sessions for them over Wednesday and Thursday. They reviewed content and plans with us and gave feedback on some of the various mini...

Introduction We, the Embedded Windows team, released the Internet Explorer 7 components as one of the features in Windows Embedded XP SP2 "Feature Preview 2008 ". However, FP2008 requires that XPe SP2 FP2007 be installed on your database, which means that if you still need to work on Windows Embedded XP SP2 it would not be the right solution for you. Therefore, we are publishing this article for customers...

Image Diff (IDIFF.EXE) compares the SP2 source image against the FP2007 destination image that you want to replace it with. Image Diff then collects and generates a list of the differences between them. The Image Diff tools include the application and several files for defining and transforming the input and output. You need the post FBA source image (SP2) and the corresponding .slx configuration file...

Thank you to those who participated in our last chat session on March 6th. For those of you that did not have a chance to join us the transcript is now available for viewing here . The focus of this chat session was XPe SP2 "Feature Preview 2008" and Image Difference Engine . We had a few questions about Image Difference Engine, and some questions around "Feature Preview 2008", but there was a large...

Now that FBWF has been out for awhile there has been some feedback that has come through as to what directories and/or files should be added to the Write-Through list. As apart of a "good practices" article I'm going to try to keep this article up to date with new ideas/additions that I see added over time. This first list are entries that I've personally come up with. \Windows\System32\Config...

n the newsgroup recently there was a thread referring to the lifecycle support blog page linked below which says “ Support ends either 12 months after the next service pack releases or at the end of the product's support lifecycle, whichever comes first ”. Here were the 2 newsgroup questions with some answers provided below. Re: "Is Feature Pack 2007 considered the ‘next service pack’ after the...

I pulled a lot of this information from an internal discussion group thread regarding preparedness for the upcoming Daylight Savings Time change. Microsoft has built a virtual community of employees linked to each other and to our customers by leveraging telephony, remote assistance, chat rooms and internet web casts that support all of our customer audiences and segments. In addition, our physical...