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We recently posted the CE 6.0 Virtual PC Binary BSP to the MSDN Code Gallery – I wanted to build something interesting using the Virtual PC BSP, so decided to build the obvious digital picture frame application with a twist. Virtual PC supports serial
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David Shoemaker, a developer in the CE shell team has started a new blog on MSDN called Fun with Embedded Development – David plans to build something based on one of the SPARK kits It sound like this will be an interesting project – here’s what David
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There were a number of interesting announcements made at the ESC West keynote yesterday – Kevin Dallas, general manager of the Windows Embedded Business presented the general session. Here’s a list of the announcements. MSDN Embedded Subscription Windows
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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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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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You’ve just finished writing the worlds most amazing .NET Compact Framework application running on Windows Embedded CE 6.0, the application does everything apart from making a nice cup of hot tea. But how well does the application perform? Writing .NET
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Rob Miles has posted a PDF of his C# Yellow Book on his blog - if you are new to managed programming or the C# language then this 185 page PDF file is for you. - Mike
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Here's Dion Hutchings, Technical Product Manager describing Windows CE in only 5 minutes (but only if you play the video at 1.4x speed!) 5 Minutes to understand Windows Embedded CE - Mike
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Here's another really cool project from Georgia Institute of Technology - the GigaPixel Panorama project - the project page has more information about the project and an image that clearly shows the ICOP eBox. - Mike
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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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ESC East is just a couple of weeks out and I’m busy working on my session content, and demos – one of the demos I’m working on is a native code connected digital picture frame that consumes an RSS/XML feed from http://demofeed.frameit.com pulls down images,
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I’m busy bashing out my Win32 code for the “choose an API” session at ESC East, I’m using Visual Studio 2005/Platform Builder to build/deploy/debug/test my CE 6.0 image, and have a couple of choices for application development. Write a Win32 C/C++ application
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A couple of days ago I published an article which talked about a session I’m presenting at ESC East on choosing an API for your embedded device – The plan is to show building a FrameIt enabled Picture Frame (RSS Feed with image enclosures). The application
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The .NET Micro Framework team are running a competition called the Dare to dream different challenge . Like most competitions there are a number of rounds, as follows. Round 1 – Submit your idea (October 8th – December 15th 2008) Round 2 – Create a working
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I’m going to be presenting a couple of sessions at ESC East, Boston October 26th-30th (both of my sessions are on Tuesday, 28th October). One of the sessions covers the topic of “Which API should I use” for an embedded device, for the session I will be
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