November 2008 - Posts
I’ve had reports from a number of you that the slides from ESC Boston can’t be downloaded, it looks like some form of DRM/IRM has been applied to the content – I’ve got the embedded web team looking into the issue, I will post an update once the slides
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Olivier Bloch has just posted all of the session slides from ESC Boston online – here’s the blog post and session listing . Here are the two sessions I presented: Develop the next generation of Windows Embedded CE applications using Visual Studio and
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A couple of weeks ago a few people in the team had an international food tasting experience, starting with Spotted Dick and custard – This week we decided to step up a notch, trying “Baked Beans” from around the world, in this case three US bean varieties
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I got an e-mail this morning that contained a link to an interesting series of blog posts on the topic of “ Playing media from the .NET Compact Framework on Windows Embedded CE ” – the series of blog posts review a number of potential approaches to playing
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Remember when you first got started programming, probably using Basic? (actually, my first touch into programming was in assembler on a mainframe, but that’s another story). Basic programming was simple and lightweight, probably using GWBasic (Gee Whiz
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To assist Spark developers get up to speed creating their “ home of the future ” (Sparks will fly competition) projects there’s a series of training modules that have just been published online – Whether you are new to embedded development, or already
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Pavel Bánský has been working on more cool .NET Micro Framework, I just found this article over on his blog - Pavel has written an SMTP class that makes it easy to send e-mails from the .NET Micro Framework, including attachments! - very cool. - Mike
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It's official - TechEd 2009 US will move back to the one week format , combining Developer and IT Pro content. This move is apparently based on feedback from attendees. I was at TechEd Developers Europe last year, and at TechEd Developers US this year
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Join Dion Hutchings, Technical Product Manager for Windows Embedded CE this Thursday from 1pm-2pm PST for an online seminar looking at the use of Windows Embedded CE 6.0 for handheld devices. Event Overview: This session will cover all you will need to
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I didn’t get to attend PDC 2008, I was in Boston at ESC East at the time the PDC event was running – Thankfully, some of the PDC sessions are posted online – here’s a few that you might find interesting (I’ve not watched all of them yet, I’m slowly working
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