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Windows Mobile 6.0 Advanced Exception Filtering

Posted by Javier Flores Assad During development of Windows Mobile 6.0 we realized that gaining more control over the debugger was a key factor in our journey of “completing” the debugging experience of anyone using our debugging tools. Sometimes you Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 5:50 PM by ce_base | 1 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

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

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

Debug messages and debug zones in Windows CE

Posted by Travis Hobrla (thanks to Sue Loh who assisted with many portions of this article) Introduction Debug messages are an excellent supplement to a debugger. They give information about the system’s state, warn about potential failures, and assist Read More...
Posted Monday, December 18, 2006 1:28 PM by ce_base | 4 Comments
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Windows CE Tools Videos

Posted by: Sue Loh They've put some videos online, which I recorded earlier this year. Funny, I thought they were going into our Tutorials and eHow-Tos , not on Channel9, but it doesn't matter much. Performance tool contrast: CeLog vs. Kernel Profiler Read More...
Posted Friday, December 15, 2006 2:30 PM by ce_base | 1 Comments

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

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

KITL Troubleshooting Tips

Posted by: Upender Sandadi (reposting since text formatting got messed up first time) This is the second entry in the KITL series. In the first entry we learnt aboust basic KITL packet layout . In this we will look at some of the common things we have Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 4:45 PM by ce_base | 8 Comments

RTFx Powertoy Linker Error, and a solution

Posted by Dave Edson If you get this error when building a plugin for the Microsoft Smart Devices Remote Tools Framework (RTFx): Error 1 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: static long __cdecl CDeviceRemoteTool::StartCommandHandler(wchar_t Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 8:49 AM by ce_base | 5 Comments

New Powertoy Released

Posted by: Dave Edson Hello Everyone... The Microsoft Smart Devices Remote Tools Framework Power Toy 1.0 has been released to the web. Let's call it RTFx for short. It's a framework to make it easier to write remote tools (like Remote Heapwalker, etc). Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 29, 2006 2:59 PM by ce_base | 14 Comments
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KITL Overview: Packet layout

Posted by: Upender Sandadi Overview of KITL KITL, which stands for Kernel Independent Transport Layer, is the basic debugging protocol used for debugging Windows CE devices. The KITL layer on the desktop and device manage both the transport and stream Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 11:16 AM by ce_base | 4 Comments

Thread names and CeLog

Posted by: Sue Loh [Back from MEDC-Europe and I had a great time! It was nice to talk to our European customers and fun to meet some people in person who I'd only previously "met" online. I liked Nice too, though as someone who's used to Atlanta now (hot Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 6:58 AM by ce_base | 0 Comments
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