Windows Embedded Blog

Check out this autonomous tank on Hack A Day – this is another cool/interesting project from those chaps at Georgia Tech. The Tank is running on an ICOP eBox 2300 , uses Phidgets sensors and a Logitech QuickCam Pro 5000 USB camera and runs Windows Embedded...

Windows CE is a hard real-time embedded operating system, need proof? – read on… Dedicated Systems Experts have completed an independent real-time analysis of the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 product – here’s a link to their report . Here’s some comments from...

Olivier Bloch has just posted information about this years TechEd USA Embedded Pre-Conference Tutorials. Here’s the list of Windows CE Pre-Con sessions being delivered: Sneak peek into what's new for the next release of Windows CE (Codename ...

I’m working on some code to get an old Digital Picture Frame up and running (Kurt found the hardware in the lab) – The frame doesn’t have any input so we decided to use Telnet as the interface to configure the picture feed (I’m using the Windows Live...

I’ve posted some articles in the past about making Digital Picture Frame operating system images. Kurt Kennett (BSP developer in the Windows CE team) recently found an old digital picture frame (made by PhotoLoom) in our hardware lab. The device powered...

Using Windows Embedded Standard 2009? (XP Embedded) then here’s some “top tips” to make your life easier (11:53), presented by Lynda Allen. Windows Embedded Standard 2009 Top Tips - Mike

Kurt Kennett is back with another interesting video (15:39). This video introduces the fundamental concepts behind the Windows CE Embedded 6.0 Operating System and the reasons for it's use and basic structure. Windows CE 6.0 Bare Essentials - Mike

During Kevin Dallas’s general session at ESC West we played a Windows Embedded vision video, I thought you might want to see this. Windows Embedded Systems and Services Vision Video - Mike

It’s been interesting to see the adoption of managed code for Windows Mobile devices, the majority of Windows Mobile developers today are using Managed code (C#/VB), I think this totally makes sense. But what about the embedded developer? I’m curious...

There were a number of interesting announcements made at the ESC West keynote yesterday – Kevin Dallas, general manager of the Windows Embedded Business presented the general session. Here’s a list of the announcements. MSDN Embedded Subscription Windows...

The Visual Studio team have blogged about an issue with Visual Studio 2005/2008 after installing IE8 ( Here’s a link to the blog article ). I’ve seen this issue when creating a Smart Device project in Visual Studio 2008, the fix is very simple, a change...

I’m at Embedded Systems West in San Jose for a few days – Today we had a 4.3 magnitude earthquake in San Jose , which was nice. San Jose is an interesting town – I’m staying in a hotel that looks like it has about 20 floors, my hotel room is on a middle...

I've just uploaded an update to CEFileWiz (v3.2) - There are a couple of changes. For a CE 6.0 project the new default ouput folder for new projects is now \Wince600\3rdParty - the previous default output folder was \Wince600\Public - hopefully...

Just spotted this on the MSDN Game Theory blog – Zune Game Development using XNA 3.0 (book) published . - Mike

The finalists for the SPARK contest have been named – this from the SPARK contest web site . Listed in alphabetical order: Doug Conn, aka ‘CogswellCogs,’ – “The Smart Pill” : An intelligent medication dispenser that combines disparate technologies into...

It looks like Kurt’s video providing an overview of KITL was very useful to a number of you, and I’m sure there are a number of topics you would like to learn more about for Windows Embedded Standard or Windows CE. Perhaps learning about the startup sequence...

Adeneo, Windows Embedded Gold Partner are running a series of training sessions in Europe and USA. Here’s the list… •    April 13th to 16th 2009: Boston, MA •    April 20th to 23rd 2009: Munich, Germany •   ...

The Windows Embedded CE 6.0 product typically installs to the \Wince600 folder, and has a number of sub-folders Public, Private, Platform etc… You may be working on an operating system project that uses an existing BSP, some of the CE 6.0 catalog features...

I decided to get myself an Acer D150 Netbook (link to Engadget, image on left also from Engadget, more images here ) as a small, lightweight, portable device with good battery life for running around campus to various meetings where I typically need e...

Here’s a link to another cool blog , similar in some ways to Abhinaba’s blog in that there are some cool photo’s with each post. Valter Minute is an embedded developer living in Italy who works on Windows Embedded projects, teaches at embedded seminars...

Abhinaba from the .NET Compact Framework team has been writing a series of blog posts on the subject of Compact Framework, understanding memory allocation, garbage collection, mark/sweep vs. generational collection, and more to come! Here’s a link to...

Kurt Kennett, a developer in the Windows Embedded group has recorded a video that explains KITL (Kernel Independent Transport Layer). Here’s the video! Windows Embedded CE: understanding KITL Let me know if you would like to see more videos like this...

You’ve just finished writing the worlds most amazing .NET Compact Framework application running on Windows Embedded CE 6.0, the application does everything apart from making a nice cup of hot tea. But how well does the application perform? Writing .NET...

The Windows Embedded Standard team have updated their "Getting Started" page - the new page layout makes it super easy to find the content you need to be productive with the Windows Embedded Standard (XP Embedded) product. - Mike

Windows Embedded Standard (XP Embedded) MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) certification is now available (CE 6.0 certification is already available) - more information available on Olivier Bloch's Blog . - Mike