Windows Embedded Blog

If you're interested in writing managed or native code applications for Windows CE 5.0 based devices using Visual Studio 2005 then here's a couple of tutorials you might be interested in. NOTE: these are in process for being uploaded to the MSDN/Embedded...

After posting two Visual Studio 2005 tutorial videos I've received a couple of questions about the Windows CE Emulator - eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0 and Visual Studio 2003 both shipped with a Windows CE Emulator based on a configuration of Windows CE that...

Visual Studio 2005 gives developers the ability to have one tool to write their managed (C#/VB) applications, AND native applications (Win32, C/C++, MFC, ATL), which is pretty cool - MFC and ATL versions have both been updated to version 8.0. When...

I'd be interested in your feedback on the following question... Windows CE supports a Telnet server (SYSGEN_TELNETD) which can be password protected, the only problem with Telnet is that the username and password are sent as clear text, so Telnet isn...

Isn't it strange how a question can come in from different sources one straight after another... (much like the number 24 bus not appearing for hours [especially when it's cold and raining!], and then three busses all turn up at the same time). Todays...

If you've been using eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0 or Platform Builder to write/test applications then you've probably been using some of the Remote Tools (File Viewer, Heap Walker [always reminds me of Star Wars!], Process Viewer etc...) - You could find these...

After posting a couple of tutorials recently (Visual Studio 2005 and Windows CE 5.0 [managed and native]) and building a headless device with HTTP Web Server there have been a couple of requests for additonal tutorials, these are... Windows CE Headless...

Today I recorded a video that shows how to build, boot, and test a Windows CE 5.0 "headless" O/S image using the Windows CE Emulator - Yes, you can boot a "headless" image using the emulator, you simply don't get any UI in the emulator image. I used...

I was planning on recording the headless device tutorial during the Christmas break, but had a few spare minutes at the end of the day on Monday, so pulled this together before leaving the office - I think you can see my desktop clock in the video. ...

The Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference 2006 Call for Papers is now open for business! The conference is divided into four tracks Building Embedded Devices Application Development Managing Windows Mobile Devices Partnering with...

Wrapping up the WE-DIG Vancouver trip report... There was a great turnout at the Vancouver embedded meeting - if you were there then thanks for coming! - There's so much content that we could cover at these meetings, perhaps we need to go back sometime...

Note that January's WE-DIG meeting has moved to the SECOND Wednesday of the month (January 11th) - this is because most of the "Diggers" will be at CES in Las Vegas (I'm hoping that this January isn't going to be as cold as last year!) Here's The content...

Have you wondered how things have changed over the last 10 years - I caught up with Erick Eidus who's been working with mobile devices for the last 10 years, check out his first Smartphone and PDA and then compare to the latest gadgets. Here's a direct...

I'm going to be presenting at Embedded World Nürnberg , Germany Feb 14-17 2006 - My session is on the 14th. Let me know whether you're going to be at Embedded World, perhaps drop by the Microsoft booth if you have some time - I was at Embedded World...

Microsoft ships three Embedded products, Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded, and Windows Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS) - in this Podcast interview I talk with Janine Harrison, the Product Unit Manager of the "Embedded Windows" team, Janines team...

So, here it is, blog post number 1000, I've been wondering what to put in here, but given the time of year I thought I would simply wish my readers (both of them) a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! - Mike

Today, Paul Yao, Nick White, Andreas Penna and I took (or toque) a road-trip to Vancouver, Canada – We left Sunny (but cold) Redmond at about 1pm and arrived at the border close to 3pm – everything almost went smoothly, apart from me being singled out...

I received an e-mail today that had an interesting sign-off... <e-mail_content> Blah, Blah, Blah 01010100 01101000 01100001 01101110 01101011 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 Name </e-mail_content> Anyone remotely interested...

I've just updated CEFileWiz to support .NET CF 2.0 applications - CEFileWiz now checks the required image runtime version (I'm using Assembly.ImageRuntimeVersion). If the managed assembly is v2.0.50727 then this is a CF 2.0 app/dll, if v1.1.4322 then...

Planning is under way for the Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference 2006 (MEDC) - If you attended last years event I'd like to hear what you liked, what could have been better, and what we missed... - Mike

From Infoworld - Microsoft Windows (including Windows XP Embedded SP2 ) earns Common Criteria certification. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition with Service Pack 1; Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition with...

The Windows CE "Core" team blog has an interesting article on writing File System Filters - check it out here . - Mike

Visual Studio 2005 ships with the 'bits' needed to write managed (C#/VB) and native (Win32, MFC, ATL etc...) applications, but what's new in the tools for native developers? - Here's an article on MSDN that answers this question. - Mike

Just checked my blog stats, since starting blogging way back in Feb 2004 I've blogged 984 'things' - this gives me 16 more posts to break the 1,000 mark - actually 15 if you count this one... so, let's see if I can come up with 15 interesting things to...

Interesting article from BusinessWeek that talks about the move from Java development to .NET and Lamp. - Mike