November 2006 - Posts
Since September the monthly security updates for XP Embedded have been released in the form of a single CD image (.img) file. This is done in an effort to streamline the release process and to drive consistency across Microsoft. I know this might be painful,
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This is the first of two tutorials on the FBWF API. This tutorial will go over the steps to create your first FBWF application using Visual Studio. The API can be found at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa940917.aspx . I’ll present just one
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As some may be aware the Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandated that Daylight Savings time would be extended, starting in 2007. Last week a new patch was made available for XP Pro and Windows Server 2003 systems. For XP Embedded systems the Windows Sustained
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A customer in the newsgroup kindly reported a bug when trying to build an existing configuration using ASP .NET 1.1, after they had upgraded their database to Feature Pack 2007. The error is not immediately obvious- this is what is seen when running a
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I received some great information last week with regards to the product lifecycle of XP Embedded from one of our Product Managers, Nic. I thought I would pass on the info to you, along with examples to illustrate different situations. Thanks, Nic! ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Well, it appears we probably could have done a better job in our uninstall process since we're seeing some questions in the newsgroup and elsewhere wrt developers trying to rollback from FP07 to SP2 and instead they're inadvertently uninstalling the entire
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Just in time for Thanksgiving, at least for the US folks. When you’ve finished up your turkey and ready to sit down and relax, wait a second before you fall asleep, try Image Diff. You will feel better right away! In this new download we improved the
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It's been about 4 months since I started working on the Customer Strike Team. I feel like it's a good time to introduce the "Customer Strike Team" concept here. The original Customer Strike Team actually was formed a few years ago before all the re-orgs
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Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007 introduces the new Embedded Enabling Feature Registry Filter that persists certain registry keys, for example, those for Terminal Services Client Access License (TSCAL) and Domain Secret Key. Since
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S ince the initial release of Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007 and the new Embedded Enabling Feature USB Boot 2.0, you’ve asked us what USB Flash Drives we’ve used in development and testing. We’ve listened. Below is the list of UFDs
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The Windows Embedded Design Review (WEDR) is currently in progress and is held this year at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Bellevue. This event runs over 3 days and is an opportunity for Microsoft to host over 200 Windows Embedded customers, partners, and
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It's already time to start thinking about MEDC 2007, especially if you are interested in presenting a session or two! The XP Embedded team invites you to submit proposals to speak in the conference breakout sessions. We're looking for experienced conference
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Information on troubleshooting USB Boot is available in the xpehelp.chm file shipped with Feature Pack 2007 RTM. Here is some additional information on the subject. Notes: 1) Always safely eject your USB DOK after using the UDFPREP utility, and after
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As part of the componentization changes we made to XPe for Feature Pack 2007 various components were re-factored into multiple, smaller and more granular components. The benefit of this is footprint savings. Components that, in the past, depended on one
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We are hosting the first chat after the RTM (or the 5th chat) of the Feature Pack 2007 this Thursday, Nov. 9th, 10:00-11:00AM, Pacific Time. In the last 4 chats while the Feature Pack was still in CTP, a lot of you have come to the chat, asked good questions
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How many of you have installed one of the updates to the XP Embedded Database (SP1 to SP2, or SP2 to FP2007 CTP) and encountered a message telling you that you should back up your database before proceeding? Okay, now, how many of you are running MSDE
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HORM does not stand for “Ham On Rye (with) Mayonnaise”. It is an acronym for “Hibernate Once Resume Many”. Why would you want to “hibernate once, resume many”, you ask? Well….allow me to tell you. This feature allows a rapid reboot and return to the same
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