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Today, Monday September 1st is Embedded day at TechEd Australia - a couple of months ago, Don Kerr, the Embedded guy in Sydney asked me to present the opening session at the Embedded day - The session is 30 minutes, followed by Q&A. It doesn't seem
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There are a number of downloads for Windows CE (various versions) on the Microsoft Download Center - here's a link to the Windows CE specific downloads - Windows CE Downloads (by date) - Mike
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SQL Compact 3.5 SP1 is now available for CE 5.0 and CE 6.0 - the Platform Builder catalog update is part of the CE 5.0 and CE 6.0 Monthly Update July 2008. Here's a link to the CE 6.0 July Update 2008 (includes SQL Compact 3.5 SP1) Here's a link to the
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Do you have questions about CE6.0 development, covering BSPs, drivers, operating system configuration, debugging, or application development ? Come join the MSDN Online Chat for CE 6.0 developers on July 29th at 9am-10am Pacific Time Here's a link to
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Have you ever wanted to search the CE 6.0 online documentation (yes, of course you have!), the problem with typical search engines is that you get a ton of other links/information back that isn't quite so useful. Veronica, one of the CE 6.0 documentation
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Check out the new book from Microsoft Press: Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Fundamentals by Stanislav Pavlov and Pavel Belevsky. Here's the book description in the Authors on words... This book is intended for everyone who develops or plans the development of
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The finals of the Imagine Cup are coming up tomorrow, July 8th - the theme for this years competition is "Imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment", this sounds like the perfect challenge for embedded hardware and software engineering!
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Thanks to Paul Yao for uploading photos from TechEd to Facebook (images below). You've probably sat through a ton of conference sessions, and have seen the speaker (or demo monkey) do his thing, and amazingly (most of the time) everything works! - Here's
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GPS Navigation devices are super cool, gone are the days of needing to take a passenger with you on a road trip just so you have someone to read the map (or have someone to blame for holding the map upside down!). Navigation devices are especially useful
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A few weeks ago I needed to get a new x86 based reference board up and running - the board came with integrated memory, IDE hard drive, and four USB ports (and the hard drive really wasn't removable without a lot of effort) - thankfully the BIOS supported
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I'm heading out to TechEd Developers 2008 on Sunday morning, I've decided to dig out my TechEd 1998 Speaker Shirt to wear at one of my sessions (see below) - I'm also wondering about whether I should wear the 8-bit tie for the session... thoughts? Here's
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Olivier Bloch and Mike Hall (me) will be in the bloggers lounge at TechEd 2008 (Developers) on the following days and time. June 3 10:00-11:00 Mike Hall/Olivier Bloch If you have questions about embedded operating system development, or application development
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CE 6.0 is a componentized operating system, made up of roughly 700 components, which is fine, but which APIs are exposed on the operating system, and how do you find out what those APIs are ? (and why is this useful?). I guess the first question to ask
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I'm going to be at TechEd 2008 Developers next week, in Sunny old Florida (sunny and very humid). There are two sessions that I'm presenting, and a bunch of embedded sessions where I will be "lurking" to answer questions. The two sessions are: Wednesday
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Just launched on MSDN is the CE 6.0 Exam Preparation Kit Download - There are six chapters in the kit that cover the following topics. Chapter 01 : Customizing the Operating System Design Chapter 02 : Building and Deploying the Runtime Image Chapter 03
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