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If you install the recent CE 5.0 QFE's AND try to build Kerberos.dll, you will run into a bug that...

Date: 05/16/2008

There are many scenarios where inspecting incoming SIP messages for custom headers is useful. Many...

Date: 05/13/2008

Adding custom SIP headers using RTC, in CE 6.0 R2 release. In CE 6.0 R2, RTC now supports the...

Date: 05/13/2008

If you try to build svsutil.hxx on certain versions of the Windows Mobile SDK, you may run into...

Date: 01/22/2008

RTC 1.5 can be restricted to use only certain types of interfaces (Wifi, Ethernet, etc.) on Windows...

Date: 01/16/2008

RTC 1.5 (CE 6.0 R 2 release) supports Point to Point Video calling. However, the stack does not ship...

Date: 01/14/2008

Sample code for local audio mixing to achieve 3 way/N way calling. In CE 6.0 R2 release, RTC 1.5...

Date: 01/09/2008

Following are the new features in RTC 6.0 R2 release: 1. Local audio mixing capability (enabling 3...

Date: 01/08/2008

I recently wrote about the recent DCOM Remoting Addon pack being available. Since I'm running out of...

Date: 01/08/2008

As I wrote here, in Windows CE 6.0 we removed DCOM remoting - that is the ability to create and host...

Date: 01/04/2008

My "stuff to blog about" well has pretty much run dry, as anyone who follows this blog knows....

Date: 12/14/2007

BackgroundA number of customers on a recent WM6 versions have run into a problem where...

Date: 12/06/2007

While tracking down some memory corruption issues, I noticed in one function that a parameter on the...

Date: 10/22/2007

Hi, my name is Harish Srinivasan. I work in the Windows CE Core Networking team. I own IPsec, IKE...

Date: 10/16/2007

The Windows CE serial port based networking components have an historical affinity for the RS232...

Date: 07/24/2007

RTC 1.5 supports privacy for SIP. It implements a subset of RFC 3323, RFC3324, RFC 3325 and can...

Date: 06/07/2007

This blog explains the different components that contribute to the audio delay in a VOIP call, and...

Date: 06/07/2007

RTC uses standard based SIP signaling and RTP/RTCP media streams to provide VOIP functionality. To...

Date: 05/30/2007

One of the questions that I've seen asked, time and time again, is "How do you disable the username...

Date: 05/26/2007

There were many queries about using RTC on Windows Mobile platform. With this blog, I will try to...

Date: 05/23/2007

I wrote the first PCMCIA driver for Windows CE in 1995. At the time, CE had not been ported to the...

Date: 05/07/2007

Sometimes on the newsgroups I tell an OEM that's having problems with some component to "Drop DEBUG...

Date: 04/09/2007

When an EAP extension succesfully completes authentication, it can fill in the PPP_EAP_OUTPUT...

Date: 04/05/2007

Windows CE does not support the time.h structures, as I blog about here. Fortunately Chris Tacke at...

Date: 03/22/2007

The following is a set of instructions that will help you disable authentication on your File...

Date: 03/14/2007

General Current/Power consumption relationships: OFF < ON Waiting to Connect < Trying to...

Date: 03/01/2007

Consider a scenario where a connection exposes some service to be used by a service-specific...

Date: 02/19/2007

The IrDA related Windows CE components are Irdastk.dll, Ircomm.dll and an IrDA NDIS miniport driver...

Date: 02/09/2007

Because I've been leading off a bunch of my more recent posts on obscure subjects with "Well,...

Date: 01/12/2007

Suppose that you get a username and a password and you want to see whether it is legitimate. The...

Date: 01/11/2007

This post is another of the pretty low-level, under the hood about interprocess communication on...

Date: 01/05/2007

Recently I've been asked some questions about how GPSID handles certain weird scenarios that fall...

Date: 01/03/2007

This is one of those blogs where I hesitated to post it because it may be going too hard core into...

Date: 01/02/2007

Mini Frequently Asked Questions related to WLAN, Power, and Windows CE. Why is it important? WLAN...

Date: 12/14/2006

IEEE 802.11 WLAN, a.k.a. WiFi, is a dynamic technology being added to a number of CE devices....

Date: 12/14/2006

RTC Core Layer and SIP protocol keys Port manager related keys Key Path: HKLM\Comm\RTC\PortRange...

Date: 12/08/2006

I mention here that the information about the GPSID poll driver is now included in WinCE 6. If you...

Date: 12/07/2006

Suppose you have some service in services(d).exe on your CE device that is so critical that you...

Date: 12/06/2006

At some basic level, Windows CE's GPSID and Location Framework are doing the same thing. They're...

Date: 12/05/2006

In CE 6.0, one of the things we changed was naming services.exe to be servicesd.exe. I mentioned it...

Date: 12/04/2006

By default, whenever you use BSTRs OLE will keep the memory cached in order to aid performance....

Date: 12/01/2006

The new name for Windows CE is Windows Embedded CE 6.0. Some of the marketing guys are unhappy when...

Date: 11/30/2006

As I hinted at here, in CE 6.0 we have removed DCOM remoting due to security concerns. This is only...

Date: 11/29/2006

Thanks to Seattle getting snowed in and MS borderline shutting down and me not having an emulator...

Date: 11/28/2006

When rewriting services.exe for the CE 6.0 kernel, we tried to make it so that as few changes as...

Date: 11/28/2006

There has been several documentation errors related to RTC 1.5 on MSDN. Here are a few of them:...

Date: 11/25/2006

In Windows CE, TAPI listens for device plug and play notifications. When it gets notified of a new...

Date: 11/21/2006

RTC 1.5 supports quality of service for SIP & audio packets using DSCP and 802.1Q tagging....

Date: 11/16/2006

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