October 2009 - Posts
I think it may surprise a lot of people in the industry that Microsoft (and most high visibility software vendors) invests a lot of time and effort into their testing. Quality assurance is so key to the success of our products that every team in the company
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The Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line tool is not completely localized because the file CLIEGALI.MFL for the appropriate MUI language is not brought into the runtime when it is built in Target Designer. This is the file that defines the
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Note: The content in this blog is for users who are familiar with using Image Configuration Editor (ICE) to create a fully resolved answer file. If you would like to learn how to create a fully resolved answer file, please refer to this blog article .
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If you haven’t had a chance to read through Robert’s blogs on Image Based Wizard ( Part 1 , Part 2 ) introduced in Windows Embedded Standard 2011, here is a short cut - I quickly interviewed Robert the other day. He talked about what IBW is designed for,
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There have been several forum posts about including the redistributable files for Visual studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008 in a runtime image so that applications built using these versions can run. Windows Embedded Standard 2009 database does not have
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In this blog article I will be talking about a new security feature in Windows Embedded Standard 2011 (“Quebec”). This security feature has been part of Windows Operating System since Vista timeframe. I will touch upon the usefulness of this feature.
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This is a reminder that on Monday, Oct 19 the third technical webinar in our series on Windows Embedded Standard 2011 will be held. The details are: Date: October 19, 2009 Event Start Time: 11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time (UTC - 7 hours) Duration: 1 hour
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One of the nice features of Windows Embedded Standard 2011is that we have the same drivers available as Windows 7. That means that we have a wide range of drivers available (500+), and the drivers have gone through extensive testing with the Windows team.
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In certain instances you may not want the embedded device system to beep when an event occurs or those associated with message boxes popped up by the system or user applications. In these cases you can add a registry key to suppress this beep, namely:
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PLEASE NOTE: The settings described in this article apply to Windows Embedded Standard 2011 CTP. The required settings may change slightly for the release to manufacturing (RTM) version of Windows Embedded Standard 2011, but for the most part the approach
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In Windows Embedded Standard 2011, the Distribution share (DS) is a critical element in creating customized Windows images. If you have used Image Configuration Editor (ICE), you would have noticed that packages are well organized into a tree structure
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As PC users & developers, we are faced with situations where we want to save the current state of the operating system along with its applications. One such situation is when developers have to reproduce a bug in the system/application that is hard
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This is a reminder that on Monday, Oct 5 the second technical webinar in our series on Windows Embedded Standard 2011 will be held. The details are: Date: October 05, 2009 Event Start Time: 11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time (UTC - 7 hours) Duration: 1 hour
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[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
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