April 2008 - Posts
Nicolas Besson is a software engineer working at Adeneo - he's recently posted to his blog three articles on Windows CE Power Management (see below). Power Management Part 1 Power Management Part 2 Power Management Part 3 - Mike
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John Canan, a Program Manager on the MSN Direct team has recently blogged about the end of the MSN Direct Watch , which is based on the .NET Micro Framework technologies. Here's a quote from John "As of recently, the Smart Watches with MSN Direct have
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Today the RoboChamps web site goes live - RoboChamps is an extremely interesting competition, you, the developer, get to play with Visual Studio (Express or above), Robotics Developer Studio 2008, and some amazing simulation environments (Maze solving,
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Last month, Ray Ozzie talked about "the mesh" at MIX 08, today the Live Mesh Technology Preview is available and there's a lot of discussion going on about what Live Mesh is, and the problem that Live Mesh is trying to solve. Here's my take on Live Mesh,
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A typical morning in the office gets started with browsing my Outlook Inbox for questions about Windows Embedded tools and technologies and replying to any questions that have come in overnight, this usually consumes ~30 minutes. This morning wasn't any
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I seem to be getting quite a number of questions related to CE 6.0 and Visual Studio 2005/2008 - so here's the story... Developers building Windows CE based devices fall into one of two groups, you are either an operating system developer, or an application
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At the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose last week the " Spark your Imagination " program was launched - This gives non-professional developers (ok, so you might be a professional developer by day, but just like Clark Kent have an embedded hobbyist
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Many of the people attending my session at ESC West "Become a Windows CE developer in 60 minutes" requested a copy of the slides - Given that my session was at 8:30am on Monday morning I was quite surprised to see so many people in the room. The Windows
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The Embedded Systems Conference is running this week in San Jose, California - The conference center that hosts the event was also the venue for the first Windows CE developer conference I attended in 1997 (I ended up sharing a hotel room with one of
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There are a number of press announcements at the Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley (ESC West) this week ( link to the Microsoft Press Pass site ) The first announcement is the renaming of the Windows Embedded Family - the new naming will take
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A Windows Embedded Acceleration Workshop offers professional embedded developers the unique opportunity to attend a one day workshop on Windows Embedded CE and/or Windows XP Embedded that will be presented by experienced system integrators who are also
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Jens Kühner has just completed a book called "Expert .NET Micro Framework" Here's the Book Description (from Jens blog). Book Description: The Microsoft .NET Micro Framework is a small and efficient .NET runtime environment used to run managed code on
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