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September 2005 - Posts

Shared Heap Pitfalls

Posted by: Sue Loh I just saw someone on our newsgroups make a recommendation that to get past the Windows CE 32MB per-process VM limitation, you can use shared heaps to make your allocations. I would like to explain some of the pitfalls of choosing that Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 29, 2005 7:28 PM by ce_base | 9 Comments
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CD/DVD-ROM drive doesn't mount when using the Hive-Based registry

We received the following question today on our Base Team Blog email alias. I figured it would be worth making the reply into a post since I've heard the same issue arise on a few other occasions. Question: We are working on a platform with two attached Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 29, 2005 1:12 PM by ce_base | 1 Comments

Flush with care

Posted by: Sue Loh I would like to add some comments to extend what was said on a recent post on the Windows Mobile blog . It says that developers can use RegFlushKey to make sure their registry data persists, but that legacy applications will be okay Read More...
Posted Monday, September 26, 2005 11:44 AM by ce_base | 2 Comments

POOM replication on WM5

Posted by: Sue Loh I just recently learned that EDB, the database engine that is used for most of the POOM (calendar/contacts/etc) data on WM5, does not expose a replication layer to application developers. The CEDB engine which was previously used for Read More...
Posted Friday, September 23, 2005 8:17 AM by ce_base | 5 Comments

OS updates and the hive-based registry

Posted by: Sue Loh I attempted to document this behavior in the file that has become http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wcedata5/html/wce50conUpgradingtheHiveBasedRegistry.asp . It is not very discoverable information though, I fear. And some of Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:40 AM by ce_base | 3 Comments

Persisting PIM data

Posted by: Sue Loh I'm posting this information because for some reason it falls out of my head like a sieve. I've had to ask our PIM team about it multiple times and every time I forget again. (Sigh) The Personal Information Manager (contacts, calendar, Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:43 PM by ce_base | 2 Comments

Tools -> Options -> Build

Posted by: Sue Loh If you have just done an install of Platform Builder, and opened it for the first time, and seen this dialog box: (here is the text, to make it more likely that someone can search the web and find this article) The setting for the Platform Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 15, 2005 7:20 AM by ce_base | 4 Comments

Fun question: How many people work on Windows CE?

Posted by: Sue Loh C'mon. Give it a guess. How many jelly beans are in the jar? I want to know what you think. A count of Microsoft full-time employees. Oh and be specific whether you're talking about *WINDOWS CE* or *WINDOWS MOBILE* as a whole. People Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 08, 2005 4:32 PM by ce_base | 4 Comments

Readlog summary output: process run times

Posted by: Sue Loh Today I got a question about the readlog summary output: When using the most recent version of readlog.exe with the '-s' (summary) option, I noticed that execution time for each process is divided between "Thread Run Time" and "Code Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 01, 2005 3:37 PM by ce_base | 0 Comments
 
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