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February 2004 - Posts

Sunday, February 29, 2004 11:23 PM

MSDN "Get Embedded" - Drivers.

This months MSDN “Get Embedded” article is ready to roll, the content has been sent over to my editor in MSDN, should be live on the web in a day or so - this month we take a look at Stream Drivers on Windows CE .NET - how to create a
posted by mikehall | 1 Comments
Friday, February 27, 2004 1:18 PM

Weather in Redmond - and old style fixup...

I'm now back in sunny Redmond (actually, it's raining [again] - no surprises there!!) - and am getting content ready for the next round of events - off to Sunny (and yes, I believe it really is sunny) Bangalore, India in a couple of weeks for more of
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Tuesday, February 24, 2004 6:14 AM

Labs and "How To's"

Time to ask the audience... We've recorded a series of videos over at the Microsoft Studios, each of the videos is somewhere between 30-60 minutes in length covering various subjects, including Compact Framework application development, SMS Clients for
posted by mikehall | 1 Comments
Tuesday, February 24, 2004 1:05 AM

eMbedded Visual C++ 3.0 & 4.0 - Intellisense...

Hey, I posted a few days back that I'd installed Visual Assist from http://www.wholetomato.com/ for Visual Studio .NET 2003 - guess what ? - there's also a download for Visual C++ 6.0, this also works for eMbedded Visual C++ 3.0 and eMbedded Visual C++
posted by mikehall | 2 Comments
Monday, February 23, 2004 3:55 PM

Doug and the Pocket PC Power Meter.

You will be pleased to know that Doug Bolling made it to the hotel in Seoul - it looks like we're on for a double act in the application development session (should be entertaining), we just need to fight over who's coding and who's presenting -
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Monday, February 23, 2004 4:57 AM

What time is it ?

It's nearly 10pm in Seoul, the hands on labs are up and running, we've met with the translators and run through our sessions and labs - actually, that's not entirely true - that Doug Boling chap hasn't arrived at the hotel yet, so this could mean one
posted by mikehall | 3 Comments
Sunday, February 22, 2004 6:40 PM

Pocket PC 2003 - Power ?

I seem to have been flying/presenting solidly for the last week or so - thankfully my Pocket PC Phone Edition has been able to keep sync'd with e-mail in Taiwan and in Hong Kong - the one issue I have with the Pocket PC is that I have absolutely no idea
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Saturday, February 21, 2004 5:10 PM

New Videos coming real soon....

I recorded a bunch of sessions over at the Microsoft Studios a couple of weeks ago, subjects include : * Building XML Web Services for Windows CE .NET using Native Code * Windows CE .NET configure, build, download, debug * Windows CE .NET Test Kit
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Friday, February 20, 2004 4:52 AM

Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Platform Builder Emulator images.

The most common problem people seem to be having at the moment is connecting Visual Studio .NET 2003 to the Emulator - why would this be the case ? - Visual Studio .NET 2003 ships with a Windows CE emulator, so surely I can use that to build and test
posted by mikehall | 11 Comments
Thursday, February 19, 2004 4:28 PM

Audio Capture.

It's good to see we're getting some comments and questions, someone has obviously found the Blog ! - one of the questions I received requested some information about audio recording on Windows CE - there are a number of API's you should take a look at
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Wednesday, February 18, 2004 5:43 PM

MSDN "Get Embedded"

There is a Starbucks at Taipei airport, hoorah ! - next stop is Hong Kong - I know for sure there are more Starbucks there than you can shake a stick at... - hopefully we will get a few minutes to look around the town and settle down for a Vanilla latte
posted by mikehall | 1 Comments
Wednesday, February 18, 2004 1:12 PM

Taiwan - what a hoot...

The WEE in Taiwan is over, we had an excellent turn out and some really great questions during the Ask the Experts (which turned out to be “Ask Mike and Ravi“) and after sessions - Doug Boling couldn't make it over to Taiwan but will be joining
posted by mikehall | 1 Comments
Tuesday, February 17, 2004 5:44 PM

Windows CE and Windows XP Embedded ???

We're going to be talking about Windows Embedded operating systems in this eBlog, taking a look at Windows CE and Windows XP Embedded - that wild man of the west Jon Fincher already has a Windows XP Embedded QFE blog up and running - go check it out -
posted by mikehall | 3 Comments
Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:48 PM

Windows Embedded RollerCoaster...

I just found this interesting article (and video) on the web, this shows a Kuka robot running both Windows CE and Windows XP Embedded throwing people around in a virtual rollercoaster ride - this is a great demonstration of the reliablity and real-time
posted by mikehall | 1 Comments
Tuesday, February 17, 2004 12:13 AM

Windows ChallengE - ICOP Vortex86 and 1394 WebCam

You will be pleased to know that Starbucks in Taipei opened on time today, there's nothing like a Grande Vanilla Latte to wake one up in the morning especially when you're suffering with Jet Lag... It's time to answer a common inbound question - A
posted by mikehall | 2 Comments
Monday, February 16, 2004 4:36 PM

New Web Site.

ok, so it's only a couple of minutes ago that I posted the first Blog, I was just getting my fleece on to head over to Starbucks in Taipei when I remembered that we've moved the main Windows Embedded web site - we're now living on MSDN - http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/ -
posted by mikehall | 0 Comments
Monday, February 16, 2004 4:32 PM

Windows Embedded

It's about time I started with blogging, a number of people in the embedded group at MS and others (including that Bolling fella) have been aksing for a central place to get interesting links and tid-bits of information, so here it is - so why is now
posted by mikehall | 2 Comments