Windows Embedded Blog

Check this out - While Rory was in my office talking about the differences between CE, XPE and WEPOS we also took a look at one of the CE 6.0 launch demos. CE 6.0 exposes "CellCore" (which is already supported on Windows Mobile 5.0), CellCore exposes...

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...

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...

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...

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

I've seen a couple of people having problems using the remote tools from Visual Studio 2005 against a Windows Embedded CE 6.0 operating system image - when you try to connect the remote tools to a running operating system image you get an error similar...

Rory Blyth has just posted a video to MSDN Channel 9 that discusses the difference between Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded and Windows Mobile - check out the video here The video was recorded in my office just a few days before the CE 6.0 Launch Event...

If you have existing CE 5.0 based applications or DLLs you probably want to determine whether these are going to work ok with CE 6.0 - The CE 6.0 product ships with an application compatibility tool called CeAppCompat - this is a command line tool that...

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 ...

Yet another useful shared source project has recently been posted to CodePlex, this is Open SSH for Windows CE - Mike

Even more shared source projects are available for you to download - here's the latest releases... · Open SSH enables to access a Windows CE device remotely in a secure manner using the SSH protocol. It can execute remote commands on the device, but it...

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...

Just arrived in the UK from Barcelona and collected a rental car for a few days (I have meetings in the Microsoft TVP/Reading office on Monday and Tuesday morning), I have a hotel booked in the center of Reading - getting from London Heathrow to the edge...

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...

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...

Today, November 1st Windows Embedded CE 6.0 and Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007 were launched at a Live Virtual Event from Microsoft Studios in Redmond/WA. The event kicked off with a keynote given by Craig Mundie (Chief Research...

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...

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

Rich and Dave were planning to record and interview with me at TechEd for the NxtGenUg podcast - These boys are slackers, I kept trying to get on the podcast and eventually had to do it myself, including running the interview, and uploading the content...

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

The MEDC 2007 Call for Papers is now live! (I can't believe this has come around so quickly). Sessions for this year fall into the following categories: Building Embedded Devices Application Development Managing Windows Mobile Devices ...

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

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...

It's Tuesday 14th November, I'm in Reading/UK, this afternoon I fly out to Japan to present at the CE 6.0 launch event - This morning is my last opportunity to sample great British food in the form of a full english breakfast - so here it is... bacon...

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