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Virtual PC provides an amazing way to test XPe runtimes. We use it quite often to debug , test and demonstrate. However, deploying a runtime into a VHD is not that straight forward; you need either an Operating System in another partition of the VM or
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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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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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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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On Aug 13 th 2007 McAfee announced McAfee® VirusScan® Enterprise 8.5i will be supporting Windows XP Embedded. Read their detailed press release here . Antivirus applications play an important role in protecting your XP embedded devices based on XP and
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A question arose a few weeks back about how can third parties ensure that the drivers included in their XPe runtime installation are of the highest quality. Considering that more than likely the people who are building a device are not the device driver
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Introduction With the recent release of RDP 6.0 for Windows Vista and Windows XP Pro, embedded customers have been requesting to have RDP 6.0 support for Windows XP Embedded (or XPe) platform. The Windows XP Embedded team has been doing the componentization
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At the devcon this week, during Lynda's session on "Take a deep dive into Device Update Agent", a question came up which migrated to a discussion on servicing HORM and the need to dismount other volumes on the system when the hiberfile is created. Here
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Came across an interesting web page the other day where this guy is using compact flash to replace disk drives in video gaming consoles. His primary motivation is that commercial video gaming consoles find themselves in some of the least hospitable retail
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The Optimus mini 3-key auxiliary keyboard has to be the ultimate user input device . Well, maybe “ultimate” is a bit of a stretch, but its close <grin>. (click thumbnail) This keyboard is likely to be handy in applications where a standard input
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Found the story below in today's Microsoft Windows Embedded InfoBlast newsletter. If you'd like to subscribe to the monthly InfoBlast newsletter, click here to sign up. Ascender Corporation announced the release of its first set of digital TV fonts for
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Sean Liming has componentized another third party app. This time MySQL, the SLD package is available on his ' components ' page. If you're not familiar with MySQL , it's an open source alternative to SQL Server , Oracle and DB2. - Andy
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Before Computer Associates released their componentized version of eTrust for XPe, I had completed a proof of concept AV component. My intention was show our customers that it is possible to deploy AV software to Windows Embedded devices and have the
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The latest version of Microsoft Base Security Analyzer , MBSA 2.0, has recently been released for download – this allows Embedded IT Professionals to remotely scan their networks and identify machines with potential vulnerabilities. When used on Embedded
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