Since I had a couple of hours to burn on Monday evening waiting for the snow bound traffic to clear I decided to pave my laptop hard drive, install Vista and all of my usual development tools - including Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Beta...

I've had a number of people asking about availability of a CE 6.0 version of CEFileWiz - you can download the latest version of CEFileWiz here . - Mike

John Spaith explains what happened to DCOM in CE 6.0 - you may have noticed that DCOM (Remoting) is not part of the CE 6.0 catalog - John also hints at what might be happening to DCOM Remoting. - Mike

Yep, here it is, the Windows Mobile team Snowman - Heading to a meeting in the next building I could see that the Windows Mobile team had been busy building a snowman outside of their building reception. Just one question - Was the snowman built by Program...

CE 6.0 ships with a number of new/updated features - this includes tools integration into Visual Studio 2005 (which provides updates to MFC, ATL, STL, WTL, compilers, C++ language conformance etc...) - kernel changes to support more than 32 processes...

While I was waiting for Vista and Office 2007 to install and for 148th to stop being packed with traffic I decided to go make myself a cup of coffee (since the Starbucks in the Cafe had already closed) - I spotted the following right next to the existing...

John Spaith has posted some information about porting services to CE 6.0 - here's a link to the blog post . - Mike

It's Monday November 27th at about 8pm in sunny old redmond - late afternoon it started snowing - you can see from the photo below that it's only a couple of inches of snow on the ground, this has brought the roads in/out of Redmond to a stand still ...

This is kinda cool - a handheld "furry" wireless mouse like device created by Patrick Baudisch from Microsoft Research - the video includes instructions for building the device. - Mike

If you are interested in presenting a session at MEDC 2007 you have 11 days remaining to submit your session or lab title/abstract - go here to submit your session or lab information . Time to get busy! - Mike

Adding the Platform Manager component to a CE 6.0 operating system design will generate build errors for a platform - the error will read something like: Error: Could not find file 'C:\WINCE600\OSDesigns\<Release Dir Path>\cemgrc.exe' on disk...

The December WE-DIG meeting will be covering the Windows XP Embedded Feature Pack 2007 - note that the meeting will be held at Microsoft Campus Building 118/Mt Si Room. See you there... - Mike

The Windows XP Embedded team have been hard at work on Image Diff and have just released an updated evaluation version (link to the Windows Embedded Image Diff Blog Post ). The Windows XP Embedded team are looking for feedback on the updated tool - in...

Collection 5150: Developing Microsoft® Windows Mobile® 5.0 Applications Using Microsoft Visual Studio® 2005 is now available. This 12 hour collection teaches how to develop, deploy and maintain Windows Mobile 5.0 applications. These courses will also...

The .NET MicroFramework team have recoreded an Introduction to the .NET MicroFramework webcast - if you are new to the .NET MicroFramework or want to get an overview of the tools/technologies then this would be a good starting point for you. - Mike

The world-wide trip is now over and I'm back in (surprisingly) sunny Seattle - just need to get to the airport - the transportation was just amazing ! - didn't take as long to get to the airport as I expected... The red blanket is used to ward off evil...

Yet another CE 6.0 Virtual Lab hist the web - this is the CE 6.0 Platform Builder tools lab - this lab will walk you through the steps to configure, build, debug, and boot a CE 6.0 operating system image and also introduces you to the new registry editor...

There are a growing number of shared source projects for CE 5.0 and CE 6.0 which are being published on CodePlex and GotDotNet - There's a web page that is keeping track of the projects here - this includes projects like OpenSSH, MPEG-2 Demux, WiFi Driver...

The final NxtGenUG Podcast from TechEd 2006 Barcelona has just been posted - it's the "Girly Friday" podcast, I tried to get into the podcast but got rumbled. - Mike

This is probably the last post from Yokohama, tomorrow I fly back to Seattle after a couple of extremely interesting weeks on the road. Today was the Embedded Technology Conference running in Yokohama, Microsoft ran a "private" conference for the launch...

Thanks to Sarah Blow for the photo evidence... at 12:00 (lunchtime) on the last day of TechEd 2006 Developers we gave away a speaker shirt signed by all of the Mobile and Embedded people presenting (or working on the booth) at TechEd 2006 Developers Europe...

This evening we had rehearsals for the CE 6.0 launch event being held at Embedded Technology 2006 in Yokohama, Japan. The Windows Embedded launch seminar is being held as a Private conference (see below) with 700 attendees registered for the event...

John Spaith, developer in the CE Netowrking team has posted an overview of the new Location Framework to the CE Netowkring blog - I'm hoping to get some samples put together to show this working, perhaps I will add this to my list of demos for when I...

James Kim, Senior Editor at c|net takes a look at the new Zune - here's a link to the c|net video - more c|net coverage here I have a Zune player with me on the road that I've been using to play music and video content which was excellent for the recent...

I've now arrived at the Royal Park Hotel in Yokohama, Japan after an 11 hour and 30 minute flight from London/Heathrow and 90 minutes on a train - jetlag is a wonderful thing The trip from Narita airport to Yokohama was extremely simple - thanks to...