Windows Embedded Blog

With Windows CE .NET 4.2 I worked on a sample XML Web Service written in native code (an ATL/COM object written in eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0) - once the ATL/COM object was complete I needed a way to generate the WSDL/WSML files - the Windows CE product...

Last year included a ton of travel, with the Windows Embedded Essentials (India, China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, San Jose, Boston, and Germany), as well as other events, customer visits etc... When travelling I like to catch up on some of my skunk...

I now have CEWSDLGen for Windows CE 5.0 up and running, this integrates nicely with the new Windows CE 5.0 build system - initially I didn't like the change from the 4.2 CEC format to the new 5.0 'sources only' build system - I thought it was neat that...

Ok, so here I am trying out W.Blogger, I still have Visual Bloggar installed, and of course have Internet Explorer as a backup. each application I've tried seems to have some nice features, it would be awesome to get the following into a single application...

I've been using the Internet Explroer UI to post to my Blog, but have been looking for a GUI based tool - I found VisualBlogger 2004 while browsing the web this morning and thought I would give it a try, so far the UI seems pretty easy to use, and...

I have a Pocket PC Phone Edition device that I carry around with me pretty much all the time, I've had Windows CE handheld devices going back to the first clamshell H/PC 1.0 device that went on sale at the 1996 PDC in San-Diego - I've found the PIM functionality...

I saw a posting from Don Box a while back that talked about his presentation tips, it's buried in his blog, so I've copied the text over here... From Don Box's Blog Everything you know about network protocols applies. How do you know people...

Friday afternoon Robert Scoble from the MSDN Channel 9 team visited the Embedded devices lab, we took a tour of some of the more interesting devices running on Windows CE and Windows XP Embedded (including Roberts favorite, the Bernina Sewing Machine...

I totally forgot to give you a link to the SPOT watch page - http://direct.msn.com - Mike

Earlier this week I downloaded a new watch face for my SPOT watch - It's growing on me, I've had this running as my default face for most of the week I have a SPOT watch, my laptop (a Toshiba M200 Tablet PC), and a Pocket PC Phone Edition - 15 minutes...

I'm interested in your feedback - I seem to be spending more and more time presenting at conferences, and less time sitting through other peoples sessions - when I attended conferences like the PDC, TechEd, Windows CE Developers Conference (now the Windows...

Interesting article on News.com discussing the increase in internet/network enabled devices... http://news.com.com/Digital+home+redux/2100-1041_3-5222185.html?tag=nefd.lede I have a fairly well networked home with wired and wireless network, with Media...

Sue Loh (Software Design Engineer, Windows CE) has a blog - check out the Q/A on Windows CE Databases - http://blogs.msdn.com/sloh/archive/2004/05/27/143080.aspx Sue is also going to be presenting at the Windows Embedded Developers Conference - the...

I use an RSS Reader to skim news items and updates to favorite blogs (who would spend all day opening a hundred or more web pages to see if there's a new or interesting blog post?) - it dawnded on me that RSS would also be an interesting format to enable...

It's interesting to see the feedback from developers on CodeProject - nearly 12% of developers using CodeProject are Embedded developers - http://www.codeproject.com/script/survey/detail.asp?survey=376 It would be interesting to see how many of the...

DUAScriptGen has been updated - (If you're using Windows CE you don't need to read any further) Thanks to everyone that submitted feedback and comments on the DUAScriptGen tool - The Skunk Development team (Aaron and I) have made a number of changes...

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From onoj's blog - the OpenNETCF Smart Device Framework 1.1 is now released - check out the information here - http://blogs.msdn.com/onoj/archive/2004/05/18/134315.aspx - Mike

I've been reading some of Don Box's blog entries, one in particular caught my eye - http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/dbox/default.aspx?month=2004-04 This article talks about giving Administrators and Developers the ability to do their jobs without needing...

If you were unable to attend WinHEC but still want to get the great Embedded content then fear not, the videos for the Embedded sessions are now live on the Windows Embedded Web site - along with a growing collection of other tutorials and sessions -...

While working on a demo for a conference I wanted to show Device Update Agent running, configuring the Windows XP Embedded operating system image seemed easy enough, getting the list of files and registry entries I needed was also very easy - then came...

If you didn't manage to attend WinHEC 2004 (shame on you), then the slides for the conference, including the Embedded sessions are now available online - http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winhec/pres04-tech.mspx We also spent some time recording these...

Over the weekend I went to the Seattle Robotics Society meeting in Renton to get a good look at how a Sumobot Competition is run - Delegates attending the Windows Embedded Devcon http://www.windowsembeddeddevcon.com will have the chance to build their...

What an interesting weekend... We're going to be running a Sumobot competition at the Windows Embedded Devcon http://www.windowsembeddeddevcon.com - so, to get a feel for how these competitions run and to pick up a sumobot fighting ring from Pete Miles...

June 28 - July 1, 2004 San Diego San Diego Convention Center Your Innovation. Our Integration. Attend the 2004 Microsoft ® Windows ® Embedded Developers' Conference The fourth annual Embedded DevCon promises to deliver more code, more...