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CE6 documentation is now online

Posted by: Sue Loh It appears that the MSDN online help was revised in the last day or so; my old shortcuts are getting rerouted to new places. I see that the CE6 docs are now online at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa924073.aspx . In particular, Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006 10:21 AM by ce_base | 2 Comments

Marshalling Helper APIs

I am told that our APIs are not part of our documentation. :-( I know for sure we documented these, but I'm told there is a documentation update coming soon, so they must only have made it into the update. My apologies on behalf of Microsoft. Keep an Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 22, 2006 6:59 AM by ce_base | 10 Comments
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KITL First.

When I was in college learning C programming, they told us there was a debugger we could use, but I rebelled against it. I could debug perfectly well with printf() and my wits. Besides, I was only getting 4 hours of sleep a night; I didn't have the time Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 21, 2006 7:22 PM by ce_base | 3 Comments

CE6 OAL: What you need to know

Posted by: Sue Loh This material is drawn from a talk that Travis Hobrla gave at MEDC 2006 (thanks Travis!) and contributed to by the whole Windows CE BSP team. The driver changes that I have already written about the biggest CE6 differences that OEMs Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 21, 2006 11:49 AM by ce_base | 4 Comments

Other CE6 blog posts

Posted by: Sue Loh It seems that Jason Browne, a BSQUARE employee who used to be a co-worker of mine on the CE Kernel team (Hi Jason!), has been blogging about CE6 too. He has beaten me to posting on a lot of these topics, in fact. If you don't want to Read More...
Posted Monday, November 20, 2006 10:49 AM by ce_base | 0 Comments
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What’s new in Windows CE Platform Builder’s System Debugger 6.0?

Posted by: Greg Hogdal Windows CE 6.0 introduces a new kernel with a new virtual memory model – offering a different address space for each process, enabling the support of more than 32,000 simultaneous processes, each with 2GB of VM space. A major effort Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 16, 2006 3:32 PM by ce_base | 0 Comments

Matt Anfang: Introduction

I’ve lived in the Seattle area for my whole life. I graduated from the University of Washington in 1996 with a degree in Electrical Engineering. I started work in Windows CE BSP group in 2004. Most of my work in the BSP group has been on drivers and power Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 5:56 PM by ce_base | 1 Comments
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Optimizing OEMIdle for lower power consumption

Posted by Matt Anfang Optimizing OEMIdle is crucial for battery powered devices. While many power saving features on a device (like a backlight timeout) involve the user, power saving on the processor happens completely behind the scenes. OEMIdle() is Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 5:28 PM by ce_base | 0 Comments
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Application Compatibility in Windows CE 6.0

Posted by: Upender Sandadi One of the goals for Windows CE 6.0 design was full backward compatibility at the binary level for ISV applications. We have gone to great lengths to maintain binary level compatibility by: a) Maintaining the same exports from Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:23 AM by ce_base | 6 Comments

CE6 Drivers: What you need to know

Posted by: Sue Loh One of the biggest concerns people have about the new CE6 release is backward compatibility. Every release we try very hard to make existing applications, drivers and OALs as compatible as possible. With CE6 we expect very high compatibility Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 8:48 PM by ce_base | 4 Comments

Memory marshalling in Windows CE

Posted by: Sue Loh This article explains how memory access and memory passing is implemented in Windows CE 6 as well as previous versions of the OS. My intention is to explain the significant differences in CE6 by contrasting it against earlier OS versions. Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 8:33 PM by ce_base | 18 Comments

The CE6 tools differences in a nutshell

Posted by: Sue Loh Note: Big thanks to Jonathan Lyons who is the true author of most of this post! Italics are my writing, the rest is his. Jonathan is a program manager on the Windows CE tools team, and the speaker for the “Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Tools” Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 10:07 AM by ce_base | 3 Comments

The CE6 OS differences in a nutshell

Posted by: Sue Loh Ha! Some nutshell. This post is rather long -- though for me, that's nothing new. I’ve tried to at least provide a starting point for you (OEMs and ISVs ) to begin understanding the details of the CE6 OS that will mean most to you. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 9:52 AM by ce_base | 4 Comments

CE6 Virtual Launch Keynote: Post 3 (Q&A)

Q: Will the real-time capability of Windows CE be impacted by the new kernel changes? A: No. CE6 maintains the same level of real-time capability you are used to having from Windows CE. Q: Now that Platform Builder is a Visual Studio plug-in, what does Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 8:50 AM by ce_base | 1 Comments

CE6 Virtual Launch Keynote: Post 2

Back to Todd Warren. He is talking about all the connectivity options that are now part of Windows CE. The Networked Media Device (NMD) feature pack allows people to build devices like DVRs. Wireless networking and media makes it easy to build connected Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 8:31 AM by ce_base | 1 Comments

CE6 Virtual Launch keynote: post 1

I am watching Craig Mundie's keynote at the CE6 Virtual Launch online. I don't think I've ever seen him before; he has a raspy deep voice. He's talking about the evolution of Windows CE over time, since its first release (Handheld PC) in 1996. Happy 10th Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 8:07 AM by ce_base | 3 Comments
 
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