August 2005 - Posts
The latest batch of security updates posted last week on the download page are re-releases of the SP1 and SP2 security update packages previously released in July . The re-release is to correct some regressions found in certain feature functionality.
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Need a Windows Embedded distributor? "Sure" you say, we've got a nice mix of them , strategically located in all 4 corners of the world, but you want somebody that also has a vast array of HW knowledge and solutions from semiconductors on up to high-end
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A while ago I posted a blog article about finding components in Target Designer that have configurable settings. I have created a sample script (links to zip file) that you can use as a guideline for tagging these components so that they are more easily
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Sean Liming has componentized another third party app. This time MySQL, the SLD package is available on his ' components ' page. If you're not familiar with MySQL , it's an open source alternative to SQL Server , Oracle and DB2. - Andy
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I was reminded during the XP Embedded customer chat session yesterday that there is an outstanding bug with DirectX 9.0 in XPe SP2 that causes it to display an incorrect version when queried by DXDiag. Currently DXDiag shows the version to be 9.0b instead
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Faced with 11 000+ components in Target Designer it can be daunting to figure out which of these have configurable settings. Those are settings that can be tweaked in Target Designer before the runtime image is ever deployed to a device, which speeds
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Before Computer Associates released their componentized version of eTrust for XPe, I had completed a proof of concept AV component. My intention was show our customers that it is possible to deploy AV software to Windows Embedded devices and have the
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Last week a customer highlighted an issue he saw when he was using remote debugging- he was getting a message telling him that 'user32.dll' was not the same on the target device as on the development machine. His Embedded device had the latest security
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