June 2009 - Posts
The Imagine Cup 2009 competition starts in roughly two days – one part of the evnet is the Embedded Development competition – our roving reporter Olivier Bloch (see photo below) will be on-site working as a judge for the embedded competition. I expect
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The CE 6.0 development tools are designed/tested on 32-bit Windows (Windows XP, Windows Vista) – I’ve been using the CE 6.0 development tools on 32-bit Windows 7 for some time without any issues. I recently paved my development PC (quad-core, x64, 8GB
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Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R2 is now released. More information, and download available here - Mike
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Here’s some background reading before we get into the rest of the blog post. Hosting a Silverlight 2.0 XAP file on CE 6.0 Getting the Web Server host IP address in a Silverlight 2.0 application Building native code XML Web Services on CE 6.0 Here’s the
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Yesterday I paved my development PC (I was running a 32-bit beta of Windows 7) and moved to 64-bit Windows 7 Release Candidate . Paving the PC meant that I needed to re-install all of my favorite applications and tools. Installing Windows Embedded CE
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The CEFileWiz utility now has a new home on MSDN Code Gallery – The project page can be found here . - Mike
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I’m working on a side project, trying to get some code up and running that uses an old software stack and was having some issues – I decided to write a quick e-mail to the developer that initially worked on the stack to see if he had some ideas on how
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Let’s get started with a disclaimer, I’m a developer, I write code, that’s what I do, that’s what I’m good at – that means that my user interface design skills are somewhat lacking – I do a reasonable job of building forms based user interface for tools
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Saul Hansel, “Bits Editor” for the New York Times has just posted an article to the NY Yimes web site called Microsoft wants gadgets to run Windows Here’s some quotes from the article which I think is based on the Microsoft keynote from Computex in Taiwan
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We recently released a CE 6.0 Binary BSP for Virtual PC 2007 – This can be quite useful for building and testing CE 6.0 images on your desktop PC, in much the same way as building and testing CE 6.0 operating system images using the existing ARM Device
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Recently I posted some information about hosting a Silverlight 2.0 application on a Windows CE 6.0 based host – This was really straight forward, I built a (very) simple Silverlight 2.0 application in Expression Blend, this generates a .XAP file, I ran
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