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January 2007 - Posts

Replacing Core DLL Components in Windows CE 6.0
When designing a Windows CE solution there can occasionally be situations when it may be necessary to change the default behaviour of Windows CE to satisfy the unique requirements of an embedded device. Kurt Kennett has posted a great article on the Win Read More...
Windows XP Embedded, WEPOS and POS for .NET Live Chat, Jan 30th.
The January chat is focused on the Point of Sale (POS) industry. This is your opportunity to give feedback and questions about Windows XP Embedded, WEPOS and POS for .NET. You will meet the Developers, Test Engineers and Program Managers, as well as some Read More...
Free GUI tool simplifies WEPOS POS for .NET Setup
I caught this on Mike’s blog earlier this week. Sean Liming of SJJ Embedded Micro Solutions has released a free graphical utility that supports WEPOS installations greatly simplifies the configuration of peripherals in POS for .NET. Service Object Manager Read More...
Windows CE guides Vista and Office 2007 around the UK
In case you hadn’t noticed Microsoft UK kicked off the Developer launch for Windows Vista and the Office system 2007 today with two days of activity at our offices in Reading. The event was so popular that there wasn’t enough room for everyone so Mike Read More...
Wearable Windows - .NET MicroFramework for clothes and bags
A colleague of mine pointed this out in the most recent edition of Electronics Weekly . Eleksen , here in the UK, have developed fabric embeddable Vista Sideshow displays (Sideshow is built on the .NET MicroFramework) that can be used to access information Read More...
Refactoring Components in Windows XP Embedded FP2007
One of the key enhancements of XPe Feature Pack 2007 is the re-factoring of major components. Linda Allen has posted a great Whitepaper on the XPe Team Blog which discusses the varying ways to capitalise on these enhancements achieving varying degrees Read More...
Microframework Developer Center is now live
For those of you who haven't read my previous posts on the Microframework, it' s an environment that enables the advantages of Microsoft .NET and Visual Studio to be used to create smaller, less expensive, and more resource-constrained devices than was Read More...
XBOX Live and Network Address Translation (NAT)
OK so not really Embedded but this has been driving me mad for months... When on XBOX Live I occasionally had issues connecting to sessions, or could connect but with no voice - funny thing was it was always with the same people. Over Christmas someone Read More...
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