A few years back, Andy wrote a series of articles describing how to componentize a 3rd party application. In Part 5 of the article, he described how to use Dependency Walker to identify the first order dependencies. But in Part 6 , he reveals that the componentized application didn’t, initially, work because "something was missing in the runtime", in other words, an undiscovered dependency. Andy resolved...

If you have not yet heard, TechEd 2008 will be held in during the first weeks of June. This year there are two separate conferences- one for Developers (from 3-6 June) , and one for IT Professionals the following week (from 10-13 June). This year we will have an Embedded Windows track with several sessions from the XP Embedded product team, specifically: Developer Conference Breakout Sessions Build...

The May 2008 Windows XP Embedded Security Updates are now available on the Mobile & Embedded Communications Extranet (ECE) for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded Service Pack 2, Feature Pack 2007, and/or Update Rollup 1.0. April 2008 Windows XP Embedded Security Updates The May 2008 Windows XP Embedded Security Updates are cumulative and include updates for the Desktop QFE Installer (DQI...

On Friday we released the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) to the web. RSAT is the collection of Windows Server 2008 management tools which enable IT professionals to manage their Windows Server infrastructure from their PCs running Windows Vista with Service Pack 1. This following provides a list of components which make up RSAT, a link to the downloads, and frequently asked questions. Where...

Starting in May and continuing until the end of June a number of our partners are delivering one-day workshops to help professional embedded developers get started with our platforms. There are 23 workshops on both Windows CE and XP Embedded and will be hosted in the USA, France, UK and Germany. For more details and to register for a location near you visit the Windows Embedded Acceleration Workshops...

The Virtual Server team has just released an update for Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. (Link) This update brings in many bug fixes along with support for new Host and Guest operating systems including Windows XP SP3, Vista SP1, and Server 2008! Along with the new Guest and Host operating systems, bug fixes have also been included to allow proper unplugging of a VHD in Windows XP. With this fix, Shiv...

Virtual PC provides an amazing way to test XPe runtimes. We use it quite often to debug , test and demonstrate. However, deploying a runtime into a VHD is not that straight forward; you need either an Operating System in another partition of the VM or to boot to WinPE and copy it over the network. Wouldn’t it be cool, if we a can treat the VHD file as a drive or folder and copy the XPe builds directly...

Make sure to mark your calendars and register now for the launch of Windows® Embedded Standard on June 3 rd , 2008! WINDOWS EMBEDDED STANDARD VIRTUAL LAUNCH EVENT This is a virtual event, so you’ll be among the first in the world to get up to speed on Windows Embedded Standard. Kevin Dallas, the General Manager for Windows Embedded Business, will be there to discuss the new technologies and...

If things have gotten a bit stale in your day to day life, then you’ll be happy to know that in the first week of June we’ll have a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of our next product release ready for you to download and try out – Windows® Embedded Standard! I’m sure it’ll liven things up a bit! What is Windows® Embedded Standard? As noted in my previous blog , it is the next generation of Windows...

A big thanks to everyone who joined us for our last chat session on April 24th! If you weren’t able to make it, you can now read the full transcript of the chat on the MSDN site here . The chat was focused on general XP Embedded questions. Let us know what you thought of this chat and if the format was useful to you. We’d also love to hear any ideas you have for future topics or concentration areas...

The evening of April 29 2008 Seattle Time, or the morning of April 30 in China, while most of the team had gone home, I hid myself in the office and delivered my first webcast to MSDN China customers on XPe Componentization through my little laptop. The webcast was done via Live Meeting. There were about 24 attendees. Because of a glitch of the Live Meeting server when the attendees were asked to fill...