May 2007 - Posts
It’s been a busy spring around here with MEDC and countless other things going on, but we’re ready now for our next live MSDN chat! Make sure to mark your calendars now! We have scheduled our next live public chat for Tuesday, June 12 th at 10am PST .
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We are happy to announce that now we have a Windows XP Embedded Wiki site on MSDN Channel 9 adding to our community resources portfolio! Here's the link . Currently the site has the high level layout with minimum info that our team has gathered as a starter.
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The Remote Desktop Connection 6.0 MUI Language Pack is now available on the Mobile & Embedded Communications Extranet (ECE) for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded Service Pack 2. Remote Desktop Connection helps customers to use the new Terminal Services
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Ever wanted to know what Dev Unit tests were, or the difference between Smoke and Sanity testing? Well, the Testing guru's at Microsoft have finally created an "all-purpose" forum devoted just to Software Testing. This would be the place to get all your
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An article today on a U.K. web site, Drives & Controls , talks about new devices from Siemens running on XP Embedded and utilizing compact flash, that was revealed at the Hannover Fair last month (billed as the world's largest technology convention).
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The curtains of MEDC US shut a week ago. If you missed the show, no worry, you have two options! 1. Watch the videos shot on site! All MEDC US videos can be found on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/medc2007 . Care for XPe related videos only? Sure! -
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Last week I was privileged to be able to deliver one of my MEDC 2007 breakout sessions to the members of WE-DIG in Seattle. My topic was Componentizing Applications for XP Embedded. It was a great experience to meet other people who have a keen interest
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The May 2007 supplement Update is now available on the ECE for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded Service Pack 2, and Feature Pack 2007, as well as Microsoft® Windows® Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS) 1.0 and 1.1 products. The Update also includes Microsoft®
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Overview At times, building a component in Component Designer involves typing in a long list of dependencies, registry keys or files that someone else already typed in. Using the Clipboard Viewer (a rather obscure feature of Windows XP), it is possible
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The MEDC rush is over and I did not even have a chance to blog while I was there. However, Mike Hall was busy, as usual, giving presentations during the keynote and also conducting some interesting interviews (in between harassing presenters, attendees
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OK, I like refrigerator magnets. So much so, that my wife has expelled my "collection" to a box in our storage space. When I saw an article on Embedded.com about a ZigBee refrigerator magnet, oooh, I had to read it. The project's ultimate goal is to eliminate
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When helping three customers this week I wound up providing basically the same resolution to each of their problems. In each case they were trying to install a 3rd party driver from the desktop and in each case the install was failing. In a case like
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While I was preparing the Image Diff Hands-on-Lab for MEDC I ran into a painful error. It took me quite some time to figure out what was going on and I wanted to spare you the agony. As you might already know, Image Diff is a command line tool that compares
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I'm at MEDC in Las Vegas sitting in the 'ask the experts cabana' with Milong Sabandith . Milong is tweaking the demos for his deep dive presentation of File Based Write Filter on Thursday and We were just talking about the Encypted File System (EFS) requirements
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