Windows Embedded Blog

In one of the videos we recorded for WinHEC 2004 we wanted to show how to write a custom Windows CE Stream Driver and then write a custom TUX (CE Test Kit) test to test out the driver, I've received a number of e-mails from people asking for a copy of...

There's nothing worse than a broken thumbnail ! I forgot to add thumbnail image for the Picture Frame time screen - click here to get the full image. - Mike

After deciding that it would be useful to replace the Windows CE Image Viewer application with a .NET Compact Framework application I've been hard at work coding up the application which will act as the shell for the Windows CE 5.0 Picture Frame. There...

Just found this on Scobles Blog - Expression 3 - free downloadable Graphics Design Software - this does look quite cool... - the download is a Beta Release. - Mike

Here's a question for you... Assuming you know absolutely nothing about Windows CE 5.0 or Windows XP Embedded SP2, what would you want to know about these products? - Are you interested in: technologies - if so, what ? partner programs how to buy licensing...

It's interesting to see how RFID is picking up - I watch some of the Sun blogs, and found this entry this morning - there's a link to a video (.rm - about 3MB) which gives a walkthrough of RFID technologies - http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/MartinHardee...

Looks like there's a newsgroup for native device development using Whidbey - http://blogs.msdn.com/Amit_Chopra/archive/2004/06/11/153641.aspx - Mike

Mike Lorengo posted a comment about Linux working quite nicely on a PII 450 with 128MB (I assume RAM) and a couple of links for me to go and check out (thanks Mike for sending the links!). The first link I clicked had images of the Linux Penguin, and...

Interesting look at Linux on osnews.com - the author of this paper compares the current Linux distributions to I find the following extracts really interesting... Recently, a friend of mine expressed an interest in running Linux on his machine. Sick and...

for some reason the spoilt by technology posting was missing a smiley - since it's Friday afternoon and we have the weekend to look forward to, it's only appropriate that I post the smiley here... - Mike

I was driving to work this morning listening to a local radio station, one of the tunes being played reminded me of something I had heard a few days earlier - I wanted to listen to that song again, since this is "live" radio I had no choice but to listen...

This article talks about Dieter Rams (legendary designer from Braun) shelving system, designed and released in the early 1960's, I also think all the points discussed in this article could also be applied to embedded devices design. How many of us have...

The chronicles of Riddick are now playing at theaters - it's interesting to see some of the write up's about this movie - this is after all just a movie, and movies should entertain you, right ? - ok, so the movie is full of special effects and isn't...

I'm now working on step 2 of the Windows CE 5.0 Picture Frame project, in this step of the project we create a file share on the Windows CE device which we can drop images into, since we don't know when new images will arrive (or be removed) we need a...

At Last... the MSDN Channel 9 Windows CE Picture Frame project is now live, go see the video here Here's how the Picture frame will look when you have the first step up and running... Enjoy... as always, comments and questions are welcome, either...

I recorded a ton of content for Windows CE 5.0 at MS-Studios yesterday - while grabbing a quick bite of lunch I noticed an electronic picture frame in the same room - so decided to take a look... On closer inspection it turns out this was a shuttle...

I'm spending all day Tuesday at the Microsoft Recording Studios, recording Windows CE technical videos, should be great fun! - I needed to drop one of the videos I was hoping to record because I've not finished coding up the demo yet (yep, I'm a total...

German scientists believe they've found the remains of the lost city of Atlantis - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3766863.stm - Mike

There's a post over on the Windows Mobile Team Blog about moving from eVB to VB.NET - could be useful... http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2004/06/05/149295.aspx - Mike

I purchased a book from Barnes and Noble today, I needed to wait in line before getting to the checkout because the point of sale device has stopped scanning credit cards - the guy behind the counter appologised to everyone and said that the point of...

I've completed the first step of the Picture Frame project, I used Windows CE 5.0 to create an Internet Appliance platform based on the Emulator target, I added support for the Image Viewer application, and removed support for .NET Compact Framework and...

Watch out for the Windows CE Picture Frame Project, coming soon to MSDN Channel 9 “ Citizen Engineers ” All you will need to complete the Windows CE Picture Frame Project is your existing PC running Windows 2000 or Windows XP - there will...

jeffsand has just created the Citizen Engineer Forum on MSDN's Channel 9 site - looks like this is going to be an interesting place for 'engineers' to discuss hardware and software projects - perhaps the first interesting project for discussion will be...

just following up on one of the comments posted back to my CE or XPE question... Embedded developers can choose either Windows CE or Windows XP Embedded (or other O/S's) for their embedded devices, if we look just at the Windows Embedded offerings...