Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

Friday, November 20, 2009 7:01 PM

Camera Preview orientation problems in WM6.5+

WM6.5 introduced some new layering/compositing technologies that have the potential to break some display driver assumptions. If your display driver is vulnerable to this problem, it will likely break in LTK test #4040 during camera preview orientation.
Posted by shende | 0 Comments
Filed under:
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:23 PM

Hopper log runtime mismatch

Establishing the correct value for Hopper runtimes can sometimes be challenging due to the number of places this value is stored. Some are reporting that the Hopper log runtime numbers at the top of the file don’t always match the values reported at the
Posted by shende | 0 Comments
Wednesday, October 07, 2009 2:05 PM

Relieving VM pressure from the GWES process slot

Windows Mobile displays are get larger and UI assets become more robust which is putting additional VM pressure on GWES to marshal all this additional data. Depending on the situation, implementing a “shared heap” using CeHeapCreate() to store assets
Posted by shende | 0 Comments
Filed under:
Friday, April 24, 2009 5:01 PM

Big Iron

The ability to try out bug fixes is a valuable part of the Hopper process and re-building images quickly is one of the easiest ways to improve your Hopper numbers. We recently went about trying to find the combination of build server parts that makes
Posted by shende | 1 Comments
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 3:07 PM

Troubleshooting guide - part 2

Below is the second half of a well executed document from guestRx: Bulent Elmaci. Bulent has worked with Windows Mobile debugging for a long time and backs up his writing with a lot of experience. It is the first of a series of articles he has written
Posted by shende | 2 Comments
Thursday, March 05, 2009 2:56 PM

Troubleshooting guide - part 1

Below is a well executed document from guestRx: Bulent Elmaci. Bulent has worked with Windows Mobile debugging for a long time and backs up his writing with a lot of experience. It is the first of a series of articles he has written to help our OEM's
Posted by shende | 2 Comments
Friday, December 19, 2008 2:24 PM

A Windows CE 6.0 Book that I keep paging back to...

I am not much of a programming book person, I am much more likely to select code and press "F1". However, I find myself reaching for a CE 6.0 book and have been finding it quite useful. "Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Fundamentals" [Pavlov, Belevsky][ISBN 0735626251
Posted by shende | 0 Comments
Friday, September 19, 2008 6:56 PM

Writeable code sections got you down? Fear no more!

Virtual Memory changes included in Windows Mobile 6.1 can relocate read- only code sections out of Slot 0 and into a higher address range. This change was taken to relieve pressure from our coveted, read- write Slot 0. This change will be transparent
Posted by shende | 1 Comments
Saturday, March 08, 2008 12:01 AM

Hopper: Start Menu Dead!

Interesting post over at "Reed & Steve" regarding Hopper and full screen apps and the Start Menu Dead message. Check it out here . Kudos to them for making this available.
Posted by shende | 3 Comments
Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:42 PM

Use CallWindowProc when using WNDPROC pointers directly

A recurring theme I see while debugging application compatibility issues has to do with the direct use of the window proc pointer. If the intended WNDPROC exists in a DLL that is located in Slot 0, the pointer “looks right” and is often mistakenly used
Posted by shende | 1 Comments
Friday, January 18, 2008 10:45 PM

Are you passionate about Windows Mobile Devices?

Do you want to work on next generation Windows Mobile devices long before they become commercially available? Want to be the first one to work with and influence next year’s Windows Mobile devices? Then you’re in luck! The Windows Mobile team is looking
Posted by shende | 1 Comments
Friday, January 11, 2008 12:07 AM

MemoRx incorrectly displaying VM overlap in pre-release Windows Mobile versions

Many OEM’s have already noticed that Memory Doctor doesn’t correctly represent VM overlap in some pre-release versions of Windows Mobile. There have been some changes in WM VM architecture that contradict an assumption made by MemoRx which results in
Posted by shende | 11 Comments
Thursday, November 15, 2007 11:52 PM

Understanding Output From “meminfo kernel”

I was debugging a weird hang at device boot and I used the command “meminfo kernel” in CeDebugX to get more info, but I realized right away that I didn’t know what this command was showing me. So, I did a bit of investigation into what the output meant
Posted by JeCahill | 2 Comments
Attachment(s): WatchWindow_Snapshot.jpg
Friday, November 02, 2007 4:59 PM

Passive KITL to the rescue

I'm sure many of you have been in a situation where your device hangs during field testing. Or sometimes you are trying to track down a problem which only repros at a certain location. The best thing you can have in these situations is, of course, a live
Posted by deanmel | 3 Comments
Filed under: , , ,
Thursday, October 25, 2007 6:39 PM

Running Platform Builder 6 on Vista

There are a lot of people that afraid to switch of Vista because they are afraid that their stuff will not work. Well truth be told, I've been running Vista+VS2005_SP1+PB6 since March of this year and haven't had any major problems. The only two problems
Posted by deanmel | 1 Comments
Filed under: ,
More Posts Next page »
 
Page view tracker