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Windows CE Power Management

Nicolas Besson, one of our MVPs, posted a nice series of articles about power management in Windows CE that I thought I'd bring some attention to: http://nicolasbesson.blogspot.com/2008/04/power-management-under-window-ce-part.html http://nicolasbesson.blogspot.com/2008/04/power-management-under-windows-ce-part.html Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:45 AM by ce_base | 1 Comments

Good posts about Windows CE/Mobile Virtual Memory

I didn't learn about Reed & Steve's blog until today, but got there by learning about these posts: http://blogs.msdn.com/hegenderfer/archive/2007/08/31/slaying-the-virtual-memory-monster.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/hegenderfer/archive/2007/10/01/slaying-the-virtual-memory-monster-part-ii.aspx Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 6:07 PM by ce_base | 0 Comments
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Paging and the Windows CE Paging Pool

Posted by: Sue Loh I’d like to explain a little more about memory management in Windows CE. I already explained a bit about paging in Windows CE when I discussed virtual memory . In short, the OS will delay committing memory as long as possible by only Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 19, 2008 9:26 PM by ce_base | 6 Comments
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Is Platform Builder 5.0 side-by-side compatible with Platform Builder 6.0?

Doug Cook, a member of the Platform Builder team, wrote a post on this topic here: http://blogs.msdn.com/dcook/archive/2007/05/13/does-pb-5-0-work-side-by-side-with-pb-6-0.aspx Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:37 AM by ce_base | 4 Comments

Platform Builder 6.0 Service Pack 1

Posted by: Sue Loh Hello from MEDC! I have enjoyed meeting many of you in person in the last couple of days. :-) In case you missed the news, the service pack for Platform Builder 6.0 is now available as a web download, at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=BF0DC0E3-8575-4860-A8E3-290ADF242678&displaylang=en Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 12:46 PM by ce_base | 11 Comments

Using Application Verifier on Windows Mobile drivers

Mike Thompson posted a very comprehensive article on this subject at http://blogs.msdn.com/hopperx/archive/2007/03/30/application-verifier-on-drivers-windows-mobile-6.aspx that I would like to call attention to. If you're trying to look for memory leaks Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 8:11 PM by ce_base | 1 Comments

Anatomy of a perf investigation [Perf people do dumb stuff too]

Posted by: Sue Loh To give you a little glimpse of MEDC preparation: MEDC 2007 is only a month away and talk preparation is nearly complete. For those people who are on the ball, the slides are already submitted and beautified by professional slide-cleaner-uppers; Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 4:52 PM by ce_base | 0 Comments

Using Platform Builder remote tools over ActiveSync

Posted by: Sue Loh This information is something I only personally discovered recently, and it has important implications for our application developer community! For years I thought our "platman" remote tools (Remote Kernel Tracker, Call Profiler and Read More...
Posted Monday, April 02, 2007 3:02 PM by ce_base | 11 Comments

Windows Mobile 6 and the CE OS

Posted by: Sue Loh Now that WM6 is publicly announced, I want to start taking steps to prevent confusion about one detail that is pretty major to most people who read this blog. Windows Mobile 6 does NOT run the CE 6 OS. Technically the OS version # in Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2007 2:14 PM by ce_base | 17 Comments

FATFS post on multimedia team blog

I just came across a FATFS post on the new multimedia team blog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/medmedia/ ) and thought that some of the readers here might be interested in it. So here is a link to that post: http://blogs.msdn.com/medmedia/archive/2007/01/04/fat-filesystem-performance-issues.aspx Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 08, 2007 8:33 AM by ce_base | 2 Comments

What is kernel mode?

Posted by: Sue Loh I've talked about this before but I want to really highlight it because I still see people wrestling with it. In Windows CE 5.0 and earlier, "kernel mode" is an access level attached to a thread. If a thread is "in kernel mode" it can Read More...
Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 12:43 PM by ce_base | 5 Comments
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Measuring TLB misses

Posted by: Sue Loh Question: How can I measure TLB misses on Windows CE? Answer: If you are running a MIPS or SH processor then CeLog will capture counts of TLB misses. On each thread switch it'll record a "TLB miss" event which has the count of TLB misses Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 9:10 AM by ce_base | 6 Comments

Books and other resources for learning about Windows CE

Posted by: Sue Loh I am occasionally asked whether I know any good books or other resources to help learn about Windows CE internals, APIs, and more. I wish we had the Windows CE equivalent of the deep Windows Internals books written by Russinovich and Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 6:59 PM by ce_base | 7 Comments

Fix: time stamp mismatch on celog.rel

Posted by: Sue Loh Posting a full explanation of this error from CE 5.0. Error: Mismatched time stamp on .rel file for module celog.dll requesting kernel fixup. Valid .rel file is required for kernel fixups. It happens if you set the IMGCELOGENABLE build Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 04, 2007 9:05 AM by ce_base | 3 Comments

What the heck's a meme? I don't like chain letters.

Posted by: Sue Loh So why am I responding to Mike tagging me ? I don't know. Mike, haven't you got better things to do during the holidays? Spend your time eating too much like the rest of us. :-) For that matter, haven't I got better things to do right Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 03, 2007 2:49 PM by ce_base | 0 Comments
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