August 2008 - Posts
If you run TAP.exe on your target hardware you will get every device listed in the registry. Some of these devices are not real devices at all, but are software-enumerated devices and are very rarely (if ever) needed on a runtime image. Disabling or deleting
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Hurry up and go to the Windows Embedded Standard Connect website and download the CTP Refresh in order to be automatically entered for a chance to win a Microsoft Mobile Memory Mouse 8000! The contest runs through tomorrow, and we will be randomly
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On August 12th, 2008 the Embedded Windows team released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) Refresh of Windows® Embedded Standard as well as a CTP of Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Windows® XP Embedded! These can be downloaded from https://connect.microsoft.com/windowsembedded
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Occasionally, you may want to rename the page file from Pagefile.sys to Newfilename .sys, where Newfilename is the name you want to give to the renamed file. Or, you may want to move the page file to another partition that is not protected by EWF. To
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To get the most from using static analysis tool PREfast , you should add annotations to your source code. While this might sound like a difficult thing to do, it’s really not. The Visual Studio 2008 SAL documentation on MSDN has been rewritten to present
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This tip is applicable to Enhanced Write Filter (EWF-RAM) users. To move Event Viewer logs to a volume unprotected by EWF, modify the following three registry keys as shown in the following example. The example uses drive D as the unprotected volume.
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These days there are some great tools available for improving the quality of your code. Two such tools available from Microsoft are PREfast and FxCop. These tools are static analysis tools which look for provably wrong coding patterns. PREfast analyzes
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The August 2008 Windows XP Embedded Security Updates are now available on the Mobile & Embedded Communications Extranet (ECE) for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded Service Pack 2, Feature Pack 2007, and/or Update Rollup 1.0. The downloads
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Here’s my favorite tip – get your hands on a copy of Glenford Myers’ The Art of Software Testing and read it. You say that you’re not a tester, but a software engineer? All the more reason to read the book! Not only will it help you write better code
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On August 12th, 2008 the Embedded Windows team released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) Refresh of Windows® Embedded Standard as well as a CTP of Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Windows® XP Embedded! These can be downloaded from https://connect.microsoft.com/windowsembedded
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Today we announced a new contest on the Windows Embedded Standard Connect Website . If you download the Windows Embedded Standard CTP Refresh between 8/18/08 and 8/29/08, you can be entered for a chance to win a Microsoft Mobile Memory Mouse 8000
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For evaluation runtimes, the countdown to expiration begins when the runtime goes through the First Boot Agent phase. For the evaluation testing, it's important that the machine being used has its CMOS clock set to the correct date. If the runtime 'sees'
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When you copy a database from another machine, the repository folders would still be pointing to the machine that you copied it from. You may want to change the path of the repository folders to point to the repository folders of your machine. Changing
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The ‘Welcome to Windows’ and ‘Friendly Winlogon’ screens – Sometimes, you may not want to see the Welcome to Windows screen or the Friendly Winlogon screen . Instead, you may want to directly type in your credentials and get on with your business. In
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Here's a question that comes up once in a great while from developers of XPe devices: Question : "My font during FBA is incorrect. The dialogs are displaying boxes or appears to be random characters and is not readable. Why is this?" Answer : See the
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Even though it's summer vacation time around here for many, our product team has been hard at work on preparing a refresh of the Windows Embedded Standard Community Technology Preview (CTP) for all of our dedicated testers out there! As of a few
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Question from a customer in the Forums : "Is there a way of disabling the Found New Hardware Wizard in Windows XP Embedded?" Answer : Yes, this is possible. The Add Hardware Control Panel component includes a file newdev.dll, it's responsible for that
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If you are using a complex filter in Target Designer, the following error message may appear. The CMI encountered the following error: 0x80042335 (-2147212491) A database error occurred within the CMI. What's happening is that the CMI connection to SQL
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After waiting and waiting and waiting, finally the Olympics of 2008 is just around the corner! The opening ceremony will start at Friday 8/8/2008, 8:00 pm local time in Beijing, which is 5:00am early tomorrow morning Seattle Time. While I am excited and
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In Target Designer you can create filters to look up things like which file is owned by which component. These filters can be made available to other developers on other machines. Each filter is saved as a .flt file under \Program Files \Windows Embedded\filters-
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At the bottom left of Target Designer you have a 'Messages' window. This is where you can find all the spew from Target Designer resulting from you instantiating components, resolving dependencies, building the image, etc... Did you know that you can
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To enable a user on the system to automatically log on to the runtime without having to enter their user name and password every time you can include the "Automatic Logon" component in your configuration. Within this settings node of this component you
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[photo found on sirbrett84 's flickr page] Ah yes, from the pic above you can see that the age old issue of suppressing Windows on an embedded device bites another developer that was unaware you could (or would need to) suppress a few annoying habits
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If you'd like to eliminate the blue flash that appears when the default desktop wallpaper for the default user (dark blue) first appears before logon, set the following registry entry: HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors Background
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