January 2007 - Posts
If you have not downloaded any security updates for XP Embedded recently, or not otherwise logged into the OEM Secure site , you may have missed the notice regarding the location change for the updates coming at the end of January. Here, courtesy of Gina
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This is just a reminder that we are hosting a MSDN chat tomorrow (1/30/07) morning, from 10-11 a.m. PST. Come join the product team in the MSDN Chat room to discuss and ask questions. This month’s chat will focus on the Point of Sale industry and we’ll
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After seeing this thread in the XPe Forum, Sean Liming took it upon himself to create a component for Firefox 2.0. You can find the component along with a lot of Sean's other components here . Thanks Sean. - Andy
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In all the display adapter components in Target Designer, you can view configurable UI for them. In other words, all the video components have configurable settings exposed for you to tweak. In fact, all video adapters expose the following options to
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One of the side benefits of living the beautiful Pacific Northwest , is that some amazing talent also lives here and, occasionally, you get to brush elbows with them. Once a month a group of those who think very deep thoughts about C++, and software in
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Some EWF-based embedded systems occasionally run into a problem where CHKDSK insists on running each time the system reboots. This can cause issues with breaking the system's branding (if the developer has taken steps to hide the Windows splash screens,
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Our partners on the Vertical Industries team that shipped WEPOS have finally joined the blogosphere. You can find their Point of Service blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/pointofservice/ . Looks like this is going to be a great resource for WEPOS , general
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Mark your calendars: we have scheduled our first live public chat of the 2007 calendar year to take place on Tuesday, January 30 th at 10am PST . We are going to focus this month’s chat on the Point of Sale (POS) industry. Not only will the Windows XP
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While running Embedded Studio tools such as Target Designer, Component Designer, or Component Database Manager on Vista, likely you would have seen error messages indicating failure in logging on to the component database – see Figure 1 below. This is
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The DST patch has been bundled with the December 2006 security updates for XPe and is now available for download on the OEM secure site - https://microsoft.embeddedoem.com/content.asp?path=/downloads/winxp/qfe/dec06su (Downloads and Technical Resources
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