December 2006 - Posts
...the second in an occasional series. Struggling for that last minute Christmas present? Know someone who loves their coffee? Check out the Windows CE based Westinghouse Beyond Home Hub and coffee maker on Amazon. Home Hub Features: High performance
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Ever wondered what's meant by the term "SDK," and how it applies to Windows CE or Windows Mobile device development? Sue Loh has posted another great article on the CE Base Team Blog explaining what an SDK is, and how SDKs have evolved with the release
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The key to fixing a bug discovered in the field is accurate information about the system's state when the bug manifests itself. Check out Abraham Kcholi and Gad Meir’s whitepaper on Windows for Devices where they show how the Windows CE Error Reporting
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You may have noticed the Frimr flag on the left hand side of my blog and wondered what it means. Frimr was shown to me by Olivier (Embedded Developer Evangelist for France) whilst I was at TechEd in Barcleona. Frimr is a Web 2.0 site created by his colleagues
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The first round of the Imagine Cup 2007 student technology competition has officially begun. The annual Imagine Cup event invites small teams of students to compete in nine technology areas, one of which replaces the former "Windows Embedded Student ChallengE."
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Windows Embedded CE 6.0 introduced a new, "third generation" kernel. Unsurprisingly, changes to the kernel architecture have impacted the way system software such as drivers and servers access memory. Sue Loh has put together yet another great whitepaper
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Andy Allred wrote a very interesting piece in the XP Embedded Team’s blog around componentisation and whether we really need 12,000 components. Is there a better way? Maybe it makes sense to "group" features together that don't have a lot of dependencies
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WindowsForDevices has some really great stuff this week... You may have seen the Juggs Ravalia interview , on the CE 6.0 driver model that I posted a while back. Sue Loh has written a great whitepaper that puts more substance around porting device drivers
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If you've tried creating USB Bootable XP Embedded Images from Vista then chances are you might have run into a couple of issues. The UFDPrep application that ships with Feature Pack 2007 was specifically designed to allow you to prepare USB media from
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