It’s been a busy spring around here with MEDC and countless other things going on, but we’re ready now for our next live MSDN chat! Make sure to mark your calendars now! We have scheduled our next live public chat for Tuesday, June 12 th at 10am PST . Come join members of the XP Embedded team to ask questions or share your feedback on the product. Since our last chat back in March, we officially released...

We are happy to announce that now we have a Windows XP Embedded Wiki site on MSDN Channel 9 adding to our community resources portfolio! Here's the link . Currently the site has the high level layout with minimum info that our team has gathered as a starter. The site is for the community to share knowledge and expertise. We encourage everyone in the community to contribute to ensure the...

The Remote Desktop Connection 6.0 MUI Language Pack is now available on the Mobile & Embedded Communications Extranet (ECE) for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded Service Pack 2. Remote Desktop Connection helps customers to use the new Terminal Services features and updates introduced in Windows Vista™ such as Network Level Authentication, Server authentication, resource redirection, TS gateway servers...

Ever wanted to know what Dev Unit tests were, or the difference between Smoke and Sanity testing? Well, the Testing guru's at Microsoft have finally created an "all-purpose" forum devoted just to Software Testing. This would be the place to get all your general questions about testing theory, terminology and processes answered. Test engineers from all parts of Microsoft and all products are active...

An article today on a U.K. web site, Drives & Controls , talks about new devices from Siemens running on XP Embedded and utilizing compact flash, that was revealed at the Hannover Fair last month (billed as the world's largest technology convention). The devices are called Simatic Embedded Automation devices and have a multiple formats. For more details see the full article - http://www.drives...

The curtains of MEDC US shut a week ago. If you missed the show, no worry, you have two options! 1. Watch the videos shot on site! All MEDC US videos can be found on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/medc2007 . Care for XPe related videos only? Sure! - Derek Snyder interviews John Doyle , Windows XP Embedded Product Manager, in the Expo Hall. - Mike Hall interviews Jon Rauschenberger ...

Last week I was privileged to be able to deliver one of my MEDC 2007 breakout sessions to the members of WE-DIG in Seattle. My topic was Componentizing Applications for XP Embedded. It was a great experience to meet other people who have a keen interest in all things Embedded (Windows XP Embedded, Windows Embedded CE and Windows Mobile). This group meets on the first Wednesday on every month (last...

The May 2007 supplement Update is now available on the ECE for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded Service Pack 2, and Feature Pack 2007, as well as Microsoft® Windows® Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS) 1.0 and 1.1 products. The Update also includes Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional for use with the Desktop Installer Tool Updates for Windows XP Embedded. The following Update is included in...

Overview At times, building a component in Component Designer involves typing in a long list of dependencies, registry keys or files that someone else already typed in. Using the Clipboard Viewer (a rather obscure feature of Windows XP), it is possible to cut down on some of that typing by saving “snippets” of information in Clipboard files (*.CLP). This article explains this process. The short...

The MEDC rush is over and I did not even have a chance to blog while I was there. However, Mike Hall was busy, as usual, giving presentations during the keynote and also conducting some interesting interviews (in between harassing presenters, attendees and Sumo Robot competitors with his podcast crew <grin>). Here is an interview related to XP Embedded that I thought was pretty inspiring - ...

OK, I like refrigerator magnets. So much so, that my wife has expelled my "collection" to a box in our storage space. When I saw an article on Embedded.com about a ZigBee refrigerator magnet, oooh, I had to read it. The project's ultimate goal is to eliminate the need to manually read power meters. A side benefit is that it will allow customers to "monitor aggregate usage in their area and adjust...

When helping three customers this week I wound up providing basically the same resolution to each of their problems. In each case they were trying to install a 3rd party driver from the desktop and in each case the install was failing. In a case like this, usually the first thing i ask for are the setup logs. Specifically the fbalog.txt and setupapi.log. Even though the install for these specific...