Windows Embedded Blog

Unless you've been living under a rock you should be aware that Windows CE ships with source code, this is provided at a number of levels, Shared Source, Shared Source Premium, and Windows Embedded Source Tools, and Academic - you may not be aware of...

For last years Windows Embedded Student Challenge (which is running again this year!) there were two often requested drivers, USB Wireless, and USB WebCam. If you're interested in using a natively supported USB Wireless adapter with Windows CE 5.0...

At approximately 1am today I was woken up by what sounded like someone having a party on the roof of the house (quickly checking my schedule on my Pocket PC and SPOT watch I certainly hadn't setup a party) - there was the sound of footsteps running up...

Since moving to Redmond there are some simple things that I miss (and I believe this to be true of most people moving from their home country), one of the things I miss is a decent curry, sure there are curry places around the Redmond area but somehow...

I've just posted the article I wrote for Embedded World Europe - you can find the article post here . I discuss three types of embedded operating system development, fixed o/s image, componentized operating system image, and componentization with source...

Application developers don’t need to reinvent the wheel every time they write an application, tools and application development frameworks have progressed to the point where application developers can focus on their added value, not on the underlying application plumbing/infrastructure – Can we consider Embedded systems development to be heading in the same direction?...

Those nice chaps over at LearningCE.com have setup a web site to support Windows Embedded Student Challenge teams. - Mike

Just catching up on a couple of weeks worth of blog posts, noticed that Scoble has posted about a "new device" codenamed Origami - there seem to be a number of comments - what might this be ? - Mike

There's a number of new articles posted to MSDN today - here's some of the highlights that might be appropriate for Embedded Developers. Building a Wi-Fi Discovery Application with the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 Chris Tacke Summary: Learn...

I've been hunting for some Linux Embedded Blogs so I can keep up to date with Linux and of course post some Windows Embedded feedback but seem to be struggling to find any - let me know if you have any links... - Mike

Hey, just wanted to let you know that I'm going to be slow to respond to blog comments until the end of the week - I'm staying in a cottage on the south coast of England with no connectivity, I've had to dash into a Starbucks (woohoo!) to jump onto a...

I had the pleasure to meet up with Frank Prengel at Embedded World Germany - Frank is one of the (growing number of ) Microsoft Embedded Developer Evangelists. Here's a link to Frank's Blog which contains a photo of me writing some code (no surprise...

Om Malik , senior writer at Business 2.0 magazine asks whether this year is the year of Windows Mobile - Om believes this is the case, and I would tend to agree. What do you think? - Mike

From WindowsForDevices - That Sean Liming fellow has been hard at work updating the Supplemental Toolkit - the kit contains new and updated tools which include Component Helper, Component Hunter, SLDX Assistant. - Mike

Embedded World was pretty interesting, the last time I attended the event was about four years ago. I spent time on the Microsoft booth talking with people about tools and technology which was excellent, and also managed to grab some time to walk around...

The Windows Embedded for Point of Service 1.0 SDK (WEPOS SDK) is available for download 6.5MB - this gives you all of the framework classes needed to start writing and testing your POS applications on your development PC - You can order the WEPOS CD ...

Spotted at last years Embedded Systems West Conference, it's interesting to see that even Penguins need Powerpoint. - Mike

No need to say any more, a picture does speak a thousand words... - Mike

Hey, if you are presenting or attending MEDC 2006 in Las Vegas this year (and don't forget there's also the MEDC International Events!) perhaps you want to drop the MEDC Banner/Button on your blog - here's the image, and here's the URL http://www.medc2006...

I've arrived in Nuremburg/Germany for Embedded World, my session is at 12:00 tomorrow (Tuesday) - I plan on being on the Microsoft booth for most of the day tomorrow, and perhaps Wednesday (unless I get pulled into press/customer meetings), and Thursday...

Check out the following eWeek article - Microsoft Gives IP Indemnity to Its Embedded System OEMs. <snip> Microsoft has moved to strengthen and broaden the intellectual property protections it offers those original equipment manufacturers and...

Windows Embedded Universe has been spotted over on tweblog.com - go check it out. - Mike

The Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference 2006 (MEDC) web site is now live! The US event is running from May 8-11 in Las Vegas at the Venetian Hotel . The MEDC World Tour is scheduled to hit the following cities - Visit the World Tour page often...

I've been thinking about my session at Embedded World Germany - at first I thought I had a one hour session, it turns out that all sessions at the event are 30 minutes - hmm... what can be covered in 30 minutes, I had planned on using a mixture of slides...

Next week I'm doing the country shuffle, this starts with a brief stop in Vancouver Canada, then off to the UK (Embedded Partner event on 10th Feb), and then to Embedded World in Germany (plus also presenting at an Embedded Partner event in Germany which...