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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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My name is Anup Vasudeva Rao. Ever since I wanted to pursue a software career, Microsoft has been my dream company. It always made me utter “Wow Microsoft!” whenever somebody spoke about their cousin or uncle in Microsoft. So it has been a fascinating
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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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