March 2009 - Posts
The Visual Studio team have blogged about an issue with Visual Studio 2005/2008 after installing IE8 ( Here’s a link to the blog article ). I’ve seen this issue when creating a Smart Device project in Visual Studio 2008, the fix is very simple, a change
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I’m at Embedded Systems West in San Jose for a few days – Today we had a 4.3 magnitude earthquake in San Jose , which was nice. San Jose is an interesting town – I’m staying in a hotel that looks like it has about 20 floors, my hotel room is on a middle
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I've just uploaded an update to CEFileWiz (v3.2) - There are a couple of changes. For a CE 6.0 project the new default ouput folder for new projects is now \Wince600\3rdParty - the previous default output folder was \Wince600\Public - hopefully this makes
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Just spotted this on the MSDN Game Theory blog – Zune Game Development using XNA 3.0 (book) published . - Mike
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The finalists for the SPARK contest have been named – this from the SPARK contest web site . Listed in alphabetical order: Doug Conn, aka ‘CogswellCogs,’ – “The Smart Pill” : An intelligent medication dispenser that combines disparate technologies into
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It looks like Kurt’s video providing an overview of KITL was very useful to a number of you, and I’m sure there are a number of topics you would like to learn more about for Windows Embedded Standard or Windows CE. Perhaps learning about the startup sequence
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Adeneo, Windows Embedded Gold Partner are running a series of training sessions in Europe and USA. Here’s the list… • April 13th to 16th 2009: Boston, MA • April 20th to 23rd 2009: Munich, Germany •
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The Windows Embedded CE 6.0 product typically installs to the \Wince600 folder, and has a number of sub-folders Public, Private, Platform etc… You may be working on an operating system project that uses an existing BSP, some of the CE 6.0 catalog features,
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I decided to get myself an Acer D150 Netbook (link to Engadget, image on left also from Engadget, more images here ) as a small, lightweight, portable device with good battery life for running around campus to various meetings where I typically need e-mail,
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Here’s a link to another cool blog , similar in some ways to Abhinaba’s blog in that there are some cool photo’s with each post. Valter Minute is an embedded developer living in Italy who works on Windows Embedded projects, teaches at embedded seminars,
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Abhinaba from the .NET Compact Framework team has been writing a series of blog posts on the subject of Compact Framework, understanding memory allocation, garbage collection, mark/sweep vs. generational collection, and more to come! Here’s a link to
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