December 2006 - Posts
As we wrap up 2006 and move onward to 2007, it feels good to think about the XP Embedded Team’s achievements in the last year and I get excited as we look into the plans for the next year. For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Kalpana Murthy, the GPM
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While looking up something related to the Unicode Byte Order Mark a couple of months ago I ran across this article on Joel Spolsky's blog and I kept meaning to share it with you but lost track of it during the FP2007 work. The article is called " The
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In my f irst blog post on re-factoring I mentioned the way to maximize the footprint savings was to re- create your configuration from scratch with FP 2007 installed on your database. However, this way not be practical for some people in terms of time
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Scenarios involving a Headless system or Custom shell often require system generated "message boxes" to be hidden from the end user. At the same time, the developer needs a way to track the generated messages. The "Message Box Default Reply" component
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It's been a while since I've made a post - ten months, actually. So this one will be big, and hopefully address a number of issues. I've handled a lot of questions over the past couple of weeks concerning the November set of Embedded security updates,
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The Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007 release includes Windows Media Player 10 (or simply referred to as WMP10). WMP10 does not include an older Microsoft MPEG-4 codec (because this file took no changes between Windows Media Player
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After several weeks working with our MSDN team, I am very pleased to announce that the Forum discussion site of XPe is live now at http://forums.microsoft.com/EmbeddedWindows ! Go sign in with your passport account info there and see how cool it is! What
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Plug and play has been a great benefit to the desktop computing world. However, some of its shortcomings have made it less beneficial in the embedded computing market place. Specifically, I’m thinking about longer boot times and, in some cases, misidentification
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Since the release of Feature Pack 2007, we've gotten a few questions about how to modify component resources and properties in XPECMD. There is already some documentation available in the XPeHelp.chm that describes how to work with properties (such as
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The clock is ticking. There are only a couple of days away from the MEDC 2007 Call for Paper deadline Friday, Dec 8. We encourage you to submit your proposal at those areas now! Explain the end-to-end embedded lifecycle - configure, build, debug, test,
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With Windows Vista available to MSDN Subscribers , you might be eager to download it and get the Windows XP Embedded Studio Tool Suite up and running on it. Here I’ll present some simple pointers for successfully installing the Windows Embedded tools
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About a year and half ago I asked " Is your job easier or harder with 10,000 components? ". Let's surface this question again and do some brainstorming. I agree with most of you that 1,000 feature components and 9,000 driver components does generate a
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The retail version of FP2007 is only posted on the OEM secure site ( https://microsoft.embeddedoem.com/content.asp?path=/downloads/winxp/xpesp2/updates ) - this is the version that is licensed for OEMs to use for building runtimes to ship. The evaluation
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