Windows Embedded Blog

Found this on SpotStop <snip>Starting now and while supplies last, Microsoft is giving away free SPOT watch upgrades to anyone who owns a first version Fossil or Suunto n3. This is a great offer, with very few strings attached</snip> If...

<snip>What would a software platform look like if it was designed from scratch with the primary goal of dependability?</snip> - Take a look at the Microsoft Research web site to get more information on Singularity, this would appear to be...

This is super cool! - Not only has VS 2005 shipped , there's also a component update available for Windows CE 5.0 Platform Builder that gives you a NETCF v2.0 component you can drag from the catalog and add to your Windows CE 5.0 platform configuration...

Sarah Blow is asking a number of questions about Windows CE 5.0 1. Does CE 5.0 support TKIP? 2. How stable is the new CE platform, are there any known issues that I should be aware of? 3. What components have been removed that were in CE 4.2? 4. Are...

Just curious whether anyone out there is using Windows CE in robotics (yes, we all know that Kuka is using Windows CE) - if so, what type of robot do you have Windows CE running in, what is the hardware reference board, and which version of Windows CE...

I've been working on a demo over the last couple of weeks and now have a platform up and running that does exactly what I want it to do (more information on the demo coming sometime soon) - I've shown a couple of people the demo and they want to be able...

The .NET Compact Framework Quality Assurance Team signed off on V2 yesterday (yipee!) - more information available over on Mike Zintel's blog . Look out for some articles and tutorials on using Visual Studio 2005, .NET Compact Framework 2.0, and Win32...

I recorded an interview last week with Richard Greenberg, the Group Program Manager for the .NET Compact Framework - in this interview we discuss what the .NET Compact Framework is (as if you didn't know!), how this compares with Win32, and MFC development...

With the release of Visual Studio 2005 coming real soon it's perhaps time to take a look at how you can use Visual Studio 2005 to write your native and managed applications for Windows CE devices. To get you started there's an article (ok, it's a Windows...

Jason Langridge talks about a video linked from msmobiles.com that talks (and shows) windows mobile devices being used in healthcare. I wonder if the MSDN Healthcare blog guys can talk about Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded devices being used in...

Check this out - David Vescovi has been working on the Gumstix BSP for Windows CE 5.0 - it looks like Dave has Windows CE booted to the point of having the Windows CE shell up and running - here's a link to the Gumstix project on GotDotNet Link...

Interesting story over on Engadget - it looks like a Gizmondo device (based on Windows CE!) was stolen from a store in London (UK), and then its position tracked using the built-in GPS unit. Having GPS in a handheld game player could be interesting...

Some of the Microsoft Typography guys have started blogging, good job guys! - check out the FontBlog - this could be a really interesting blog to watch - I think we often take font technologies for granted, operating systems and printers now do such a...

This evening the WE-DIG board met at the WE-DIG World-Wide HQ (a Starbucks in Bellevue attached to a Barnes and Noble bookstore) The "Board Room" looks out onto the bookstore - Just take a look at the sign in the window, I wonder if this was planned...

David Vescovi has created a GotDotNet workspace for the "Drumstix Project" - this is the project to get Windows CE up and running on the GumStix board. The GotDotNet workspace requires you to register, and this requires that you have a Passport account...

Found a link to this on Dale Coffings blog (Dale Coffing is Mr Mobile!) - It's an iPod 'like' advert for Technology Enabled Clothing . - Mike

I've been using a relatively old [and by that I don't mean I snagged it from one of my relatives] Pocket PC and version 2 GPS Software with Bluetooth GPS receiver from Navman (I'm using the Navman GPS4410 Bluetooth GPS unit) for sat-nav, the combination...

In this Podcast we interview Gabe Spil, the development lead for Windows CE Platform Builder and the underlying Windows CE Build System - we examine where the build system came from, the steps of the build system, adding files, applications, projects...

Don Sorcinelli and Thom Robbins (working together on http://www.mobiledevcaster.com/ ) have kicked off a series of Podcasts covering Windows Mobile application development - there are two topics up so far... Strategies for Occasionally Connected...

I'm working on building a Windows CE 5.0 demo over the next couple of days, I've configured my base O/S image using the New Platform Wizard, and have added an application, all of this before building the operating system. When I build the O/S I get...

Check out the article in Embedded Technology Journal which compares Windows CE and Windows XP Embedded Questions/comments... - Mike

The Windows CE team is hiring - there are open positions in Dev, PM, and Test - check out the Mobile and Embedded Devices jobs page here (currently looks like there are about 180 jobs listed!). - Mike

I've been working with Visual Studio 2005 for a while now, for a recent demo I needed some code snippets, this had me working in everyone's favorite editor "Visual Notepad.NET 2005 SP1 Beta 3" <g> to hand create code snippet files - what a waste...

Hey, check out the Palm/Verizon/Microsoft Video Podcast Feed - there's a TON of new videos on the feed - if you don't want to pull down the videos using an RSS Reader then I've also setup direct links to the videos on FeedBurner . - Mike

This months WE-DIG meeting is all about Windows CE and Windows XP Embedded tools - The meeting is taking place in the usual location, Building 34, room Quinalt, Redmond, WA - hope to see you there! - and if not, I will have my camera along to record the...