September 2007 - Posts
You may be developing an application for XP Embedded, or porting one that you have tested on XP Pro over to XP Embedded, and need some of the redistributable files that are part of Visual Studio\.NET in order for your application to work. A question that
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On Friday I had the pleasure of getting away from my desk and computers, and lend a hand to help the community that we live in. Friday was the United Way of King County's Day of Caring. On this day, more than 7,000 volunteers from all over King County
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It seems like we just went through Daylight Saving Time (see this blog post ), but that time of year is coming up again. To help customers prepare for the upcoming changes Microsoft is hosting a Technical Review webcast today at 2:00PM Pacific time
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In order to utilize SMS to service your Embedded device in a corporate or enterprise environment you would need to make sure the SMS client was installed on the device. This means that the image builder who uses the Embedded toolkit to build the XPe image
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Some customers have reported some strange issues when using their USB memory sticks or drives on Feature Pack 2007. One customer in the forum wrestled with the question of why the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon would not appear in his system tray when
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A big thanks to everyone who joined us for our last chat session on August 21 st ! If you weren’t able to make it, you can now read the full transcript of the chat on the MSDN site here . We tried a slightly new approach with this chat in that we arranged
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Here's another question/answer from the newsgroup that has cropped up from time to time, I think we've also discussed this in the last 2 mobile embedded developer conferences as part of the 'Componentization Best Practices and How Tos' Issue : "We are
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Sean Liming (one of MVPs), as part of his day to day consulting work on XP Embedded, has been getting a bunch of questions about componentizing NVIDIA drivers. He developed an XPe "installer" component that will install the latest NVIDIA drivers during
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I stumbled on this short post to an mp3car.com forum (see my previous article about these hobbyists). In this new post, user joepetz shows off a YouTube video of his XPe image booting via HORM on his 'Carputer'. He also demos some of the StreetDeck software
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Occasionally on a forum, or during a chat, I see a question like “how do I get <something sounding like a real-time requirement> to work?” Having seen purveyors of “real-time” operating systems explain everything a developer needs to know about
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Here's a thread from the public newsgroup weeks ago by Henry Markov about an idea he had. I agree that the idea has some merit and I'm surprised we didn't do this long ago, but with a million other things to do it appears to have slipped through the cracks.
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Great news! All XP Embedded users can download SQL Server 2005 Express Edition SP2 from this Microsoft web site without violating licensing terms by registering for SQL Server Express Edition redistribution rights. The previous article pointed users to
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