Find all the test info that you need at the Windows CE Testing Tools web portal! Building strong, reliable embedded devices is critical in today's market. Testing a device or driver can involve assessing many different elements from security, to usability...

I've been asked why we used the name "Yamazaki" as a codename for CE 6.0 - There's some history behind the naming of Windows CE versions, here's the short version... Before the Windows CE product was released we had an internal set of tools known as...

Windows CE Shared Source Contest winners announced The first-ever Windows CE Shared Source Contest has drawn to a close, and three winning submissions have been awarded Xbox 360 game consoles and other goodies. • ...

Jeff Han Jeff Han is a research scientist for New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences . Here, he demonstrates—for the first time publicly—his intuitive, "interface-free," touch-driven computer screen , which can be manipulated...

Windows CE Device Emulator Goes Shared Source Microsoft has released the source code to the Windows CE device emulator 1.0 that ships with Visual Studio 2005 under a shared source "academic" license. This makes the code available for "non-commercial...

Have you heard about the Windows CE Shared Source program? ===== If YES --> If you are already familiar with this resource and have used it to help your development work, then Microsoft wants to here from *you*. Skip to the bottom of this email...

The Puget Sound Handheld Users Group (PSHUG) holds a meeting on the fourth Tuesday of each month at Microsoft's Redmond campus to discuss mobile software, services and new devices. Here is a summary of what was discussed at this month's meeting: Xbox...

The Windows CE 5.0 Networked Media Device Feature Pack gives you the ability to create a device that can stream content from PC's around your home network and 'play' that content on your TV set (photos, music, video) - the Network Media Device Feature...

Don't you wish that Visual Studio 2005 had an emulator target for Windows CE 5.0 ? - voila! - Just released on MSDN is the Device Emulator: ARMV4I BSP for Windows CE 5.0 - this gives you the ability to generate an operating system image from Windows CE...

Here is a heads up from one of our Developer's Tools Devs, Marty Larson: This is something I discovered yesterday, and thought you all might appreciate a heads up. If you try to build tux tests with VS 2005, you'll run into this problem. The default...

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Download the Windows CE 5.0 Standalone Test Kit This kit is a collection of tests and tools that can be used to help verify the stability, reliability, and quality of a platform or device running Windows CE 5.0. This download is intended to be used on...

Do you spend too much time trying to figure out what's new on your favorite web sites and Blogs? RSS/Atom aggregators track it all and bring the web pages to you . Now you can read more and search less. These RSS/Atom aggregators take a diverse spectrum...

Got NetLog? The creativity and knowledge of our team never ceases to amaze me. When I was having issues sniffing across a switch in our network (doesn't allow for capturing broadcast packets) someone on the CE Core Network team suggested that I use...

When you use the Windows CE Test Kit (CETK) to run tests on a Microsoft® Windows® CE–based device, you might want to analyze an unexpected result to determine the cause of the result. You begin your analysis by verifying that the OS design and hardware...

The WE-DIG group is an independant (non-Microsoft) interest group that's mission is ... The Windows Embedded Developers' Interest Group is dedicated to the exchange of ideas around Microsoft Windows embedded and mobile software development. Browse...

A resource for computer history. PDP Planet is a portal into the Paul Allen collection of Digital Equipment Corporation mainframes and minicomputers, where pride of place is given to two PDP-10 systems (a 2065 running the Tops-10 operating system, and...

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...

Just when you think that you have seen it all, along comes an unheard of aliance: Palm and Windows Mobile. Go figure. I remember when I started with CE Palm had 80%+ of the market share and they were THE competition. Now we are introducing a full-on partnership...

We've recently come across a rather extensive listing of home-grown Windows CE tools, most of them apparently targeted at Windows Mobile devices but also of use on customized CE devices as well. The very bare-bones site (who needs graphics when you're...

It's a sad day at the Mikehall's Embedded WebLog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall ) The untimely demise of the much loved mascot has left an unfillable void ... 'World's ugliest' dog dies at 14 Purebred 'Sam' became famous for winning ugly dog contests...

I recently came across two new VOIP solutions that leverage Windows Mobile. The first is "CiceroPhone": A software solution from Cicero Networks that gives Smartfon and PPC users VOIP capabilities. To the right is a screenshot of the Cicero softphone...

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ActiveSync 4.1 has been released to the web, this is required for devices running Windows Mobile 5.0 - Here's a link to the download . The 4.1 release fixes issues with syncing devices as described on Jason Langridges' blog . Don Gambrell

I was directed to an msnbc article - " Bringing the family photos into the kitchen - One man's quest to build the perfect digital picture frame" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9745954/ - and then stumbled upon a blog entry detailing exactly how to build...