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June 2009 - Posts

FBWF overlay filled up too often?
This is an issue reported by a customer who’s using XP embedded for a banking kiosk device.Their FBWF overlay was filled up very often and they had to reboot the machine almost every day. They gave 128MB  (out of 1GB total RAM) to the overlay. They Read More...
Virtual Kernel Mode Debugging
A while back I discovered that it was possible to do kernel mode debugging of an OS on a virtual machine (VM) running under Virtual PC using a single computer. Even if you are not concerned with debugging a device driver, kernel mode debugging can be Read More...
Importing Driver INFs into Component Designer
In my previous screen cast I focused on importing a sound card driver inf into Component Designer in order to automatically generate a component. This video continues with the theme of interpreting and solving warnings that you receive when importing Read More...
Component Tales: DirectX
[The following article is authored by one of the Windows Embedded MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals). Our MVPs have a heavy background in Embedded systems and are a great repository of information on Windows Embedded products. We’re providing this space Read More...
Component Tales: COM+ Services
[The following article is authored by one of the Windows Embedded MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals). Our MVPs have a heavy background in Embedded systems and are a great repository of information on Windows Embedded products. We’re providing this space Read More...
Mixing Business with Pleasure
As a member of the Windows Embedded team, my business is embedded devices. For fun, I spend way too much time playing video games and following the video game industry. Whenever I can combine the two is always a bonus (this might be a stretch so you will Read More...
Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers
Available for download is a new Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers . This kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos designed to help you learn how to build applications that shine on Windows 7 by utilizing key features such as: Taskbar Libraries Read More...
Component Tales: Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
[The following article is authored by one of the Windows Embedded MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals). Our MVPs have a heavy background in Embedded systems and are a great repository of information on Windows Embedded products. We’re providing this space Read More...
Component Tales: Internet Information Server Technologies (IIS)
[The following article is authored by one of the Windows Embedded MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals). Our MVPs have a heavy background in Embedded systems and are a great repository of information on Windows Embedded products. We’re providing this space Read More...
A Review of 3 Engineering Books
I’ve recently read a few books on engineering and thought it might be worth sharing what I thought of some of them with our community. So here are my reviews of three books; hopefully you’ll find the reviews useful. The Pencil by Henry Petroski is commonly Read More...
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