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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Integrating your project in the PUBLIC tree
Introduction Have you ever wondered how you can integrate your code under the PUBLIC tree in Windows Embedded CE 6.0? This can be useful if you want to distribute code/components that are not part of a BSP. In this post … Continue reading →
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Tagged Environment variable, Languages, Microsoft Visual Studio, Programming, Windows CE
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Welcome Windows Embedded Compact!
Windows Embedded Compact 7 Public Community Technology Preview (Public CTP) is finally available for downloading: You need a Windows Live ID to log in and download the Public CTP Go to the Connection Directory, find Windows Embedded Compact 7 Public … Continue reading →
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Tagged Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Operating system, Windows Embedded, Windows Embedded Compact 7
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NNTP bridge for MS forums
For those who wants to use their newsreader to interact with MS forums there’s a new tool: the NNTP Bridge application serves as a channel that enables access for NNTP newsreaders to read and write content to Microsoft Forums. You can download the … Continue reading →
Windows Embedded Forums
Here are the forums about Windows Embedded: Windows Embedded Standard Windows Embedded Compact Platform Development Windows Embedded Compact Managed Application Development Windows Embedded Compact Native Application Development The first forum has been online for some time while those about Windows … Continue reading →
MS Newsgroups transition to MS forums
As many developers and MVP’s I read and write on MS newsgrousp like microsoft.public.windowsce.platbuilder and others. Maybe you do not know that, in a few weeks those newsgroups (all MS newsgroups actually) will be closed and they will be substituted by … Continue reading →
Learning Windows CE
Maybe you didn’t notice that Windows Embedded CE Developer Center web site has a Learn section: in this section you can find a lot of interesting content in various formats (video, text, slide presentations, MSDN links, etc.) about several Windows … Continue reading →
Flash device driver in Windows Embedded CE 6.0
In previous version of Windows CE the flash drivers followed a model based on FAL (Flash Abstraction Layer): the developer had to write the FMD (Flash Media Driver) layer and link it with fal.lib to create a DLL which exposed … Continue reading →
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Tagged Embedded system, Handhelds, Microsoft Windows, Operating system, Programming, User interface, Windows CE
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Get last error and set it meaningfully
Very often I read posts in the newsgroups like: I call function Foo(dwParam) and it returns FALSE. What’s wrong? If I cannot tell it immediately -for example because the dwParam is clearly wrong – my standard answer is: Have you … Continue reading →
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Tagged Error code, Operating system, Programming, Windows NT
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Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 released
Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 is finally available for download here. This intermediate release (while we wait for Windows Embedded Compact in 2010) brings several features, the most important of which is probably Silverlight for Windows Embedded. Download a free … Continue reading →
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Tagged Embedded system, Microsoft, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Windows, Windows CE, Windows Embedded
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A curious issue with PCI bus driver & hive based registry
Recently we faced a strange problem on one of our x86 systems: after some successfull boots the system was unable to start the OS anymore but deleting the ‘Documents and Settings’ folder on the storage device (we included the hive … Continue reading →
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