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May 2004 - Posts

Monday, May 31, 2004 5:48 PM

Windows CE 5.0 - CEC Files.

With Windows CE .NET 4.2 I worked on a sample XML Web Service written in native code (an ATL/COM object written in eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0) - once the ATL/COM object was complete I needed a way to generate the WSDL/WSML files - the Windows CE product
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Monday, May 31, 2004 4:46 PM

Keep taking the tablets

Last year included a ton of travel, with the Windows Embedded Essentials (India, China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, San Jose, Boston, and Germany), as well as other events, customer visits etc... When travelling I like to catch up on some of my skunk
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Monday, May 31, 2004 3:59 PM

CEWSDLGen 5.0 - Windows CE 5.0 CEC files...

I now have CEWSDLGen for Windows CE 5.0 up and running, this integrates nicely with the new Windows CE 5.0 build system - initially I didn't like the change from the 4.2 CEC format to the new 5.0 'sources only' build system - I thought it was neat that
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Monday, May 31, 2004 10:35 AM

Blogging - tools and wish list...

Ok, so here I am trying out W.Blogger, I still have Visual Bloggar installed, and of course have Internet Explorer as a backup. each application I've tried seems to have some nice features, it would be awesome to get the following into a single application...
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Sunday, May 30, 2004 4:21 PM

Trying out Visual Blogger...

I've been using the Internet Explroer UI to post to my Blog, but have been looking for a GUI based tool - I found VisualBlogger 2004 while browsing the web this morning and thought I would give it a try, so far the UI seems pretty easy to use, and the
Posted by mikehall | 5 Comments
Saturday, May 29, 2004 12:52 PM

Pocket PC - My new favorite application...

I have a Pocket PC Phone Edition device that I carry around with me pretty much all the time, I've had Windows CE handheld devices going back to the first clamshell H/PC 1.0 device that went on sale at the 1996 PDC in San-Diego - I've found the PIM functionality
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Saturday, May 29, 2004 12:40 PM

Great Session - Part II, the Box...

I saw a posting from Don Box a while back that talked about his presentation tips, it's buried in his blog, so I've copied the text over here... From Don Box's Blog Everything you know about network protocols applies. How do you know people got it? You
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Saturday, May 29, 2004 8:45 AM

MSDN Channel 9, Embedded !

Friday afternoon Robert Scoble from the MSDN Channel 9 team visited the Embedded devices lab, we took a tour of some of the more interesting devices running on Windows CE and Windows XP Embedded (including Roberts favorite, the Bernina Sewing Machine)
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Friday, May 28, 2004 11:05 PM

SPOT - Here's the link...

I totally forgot to give you a link to the SPOT watch page - http://direct.msn.com - Mike
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Friday, May 28, 2004 11:03 PM

SPOT Watch - new face :O)

Earlier this week I downloaded a new watch face for my SPOT watch - It's growing on me, I've had this running as my default face for most of the week I have a SPOT watch, my laptop (a Toshiba M200 Tablet PC), and a Pocket PC Phone Edition - 15 minutes
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Friday, May 28, 2004 10:16 PM

Good Session vs. Great Session ?

I'm interested in your feedback - I seem to be spending more and more time presenting at conferences, and less time sitting through other peoples sessions - when I attended conferences like the PDC, TechEd, Windows CE Developers Conference (now the Windows
Posted by mikehall | 4 Comments
Friday, May 28, 2004 10:06 AM

Internet Enabled Refrigerator ?

Interesting article on News.com discussing the increase in internet/network enabled devices... http://news.com.com/Digital+home+redux/2100-1041_3-5222185.html?tag=nefd.lede I have a fairly well networked home with wired and wireless network, with Media
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Friday, May 28, 2004 9:21 AM

Sue Loh has a blog !

Sue Loh (Software Design Engineer, Windows CE) has a blog - check out the Q/A on Windows CE Databases - http://blogs.msdn.com/sloh/archive/2004/05/27/143080.aspx Sue is also going to be presenting at the Windows Embedded Developers Conference - the keynote
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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:29 AM

Windows CE Embedded Device and RSS Feed...

I use an RSS Reader to skim news items and updates to favorite blogs (who would spend all day opening a hundred or more web pages to see if there's a new or interesting blog post?) - it dawnded on me that RSS would also be an interesting format to enable
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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 8:37 AM

CodeProject - Developer Survey

It's interesting to see the feedback from developers on CodeProject - nearly 12% of developers using CodeProject are Embedded developers - http://www.codeproject.com/script/survey/detail.asp?survey=376 It would be interesting to see how many of the Embedded
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 2:19 PM

DUAScriptGen - Updated

DUAScriptGen has been updated - (If you're using Windows CE you don't need to read any further) Thanks to everyone that submitted feedback and comments on the DUAScriptGen tool - The Skunk Development team (Aaron and I) have made a number of changes to
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Friday, May 21, 2004 5:42 PM

Windows Embedded Introductory Kit.

Are you totally new to Windows CE or Windows XP Embedded? - if so, check out the following... Get your Windows Embedded Introductory Kit See how you can develop for devices more efficiently. Download your Windows® Embedded Introductory Kit today,
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Wednesday, May 19, 2004 8:05 AM

OpenNETCF Smart Device Framework 1.1 Released.

From onoj's blog - the OpenNETCF Smart Device Framework 1.1 is now released - check out the information here - http://blogs.msdn.com/onoj/archive/2004/05/18/134315.aspx - Mike
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Tuesday, May 18, 2004 5:46 PM

Don Box - The luxury of ignorance - Embedded Devices ?

I've been reading some of Don Box's blog entries, one in particular caught my eye - http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/dbox/default.aspx?month=2004-04 This article talks about giving Administrators and Developers the ability to do their jobs without needing
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Tuesday, May 18, 2004 12:12 PM

WinHEC 2004 - Session Videos now live...

If you were unable to attend WinHEC but still want to get the great Embedded content then fear not, the videos for the Embedded sessions are now live on the Windows Embedded Web site - along with a growing collection of other tutorials and sessions -
Posted by mikehall | 2 Comments
Tuesday, May 18, 2004 10:43 AM

Device Update Agent Script Generator (DUAScriptGen) Beta - Try it out today...

While working on a demo for a conference I wanted to show Device Update Agent running, configuring the Windows XP Embedded operating system image seemed easy enough, getting the list of files and registry entries I needed was also very easy - then came
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Monday, May 17, 2004 9:27 PM

WinHEC 2004 "Embedded" slides now available on Microsoft.com

If you didn't manage to attend WinHEC 2004 (shame on you), then the slides for the conference, including the Embedded sessions are now available online - http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winhec/pres04-tech.mspx We also spent some time recording these sessions
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Monday, May 17, 2004 10:39 AM

Sumobot - here's what you have to look forward to at the devcon party...

Over the weekend I went to the Seattle Robotics Society meeting in Renton to get a good look at how a Sumobot Competition is run - Delegates attending the Windows Embedded Devcon http://www.windowsembeddeddevcon.com will have the chance to build their
Posted by mikehall | 4 Comments
Sunday, May 16, 2004 11:17 AM

Seattle Robotics Society, Space Elevators, Windows Embedded Devcon Sumobot Competition & Asimov

What an interesting weekend... We're going to be running a Sumobot competition at the Windows Embedded Devcon http://www.windowsembeddeddevcon.com - so, to get a feel for how these competitions run and to pick up a sumobot fighting ring from Pete Miles
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Tuesday, May 11, 2004 8:49 PM

Windows Embedded Devcon 2004

June 28 - July 1, 2004 San Diego San Diego Convention Center Your Innovation. Our Integration. Attend the 2004 Microsoft ® Windows ® Embedded Developers' Conference The fourth annual Embedded DevCon promises to deliver more code, more demos,
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Saturday, May 08, 2004 11:02 AM

Chris Muench - WinHEC Part II

Chris Muench is at it again... more feedback from WinHEC 2004... Ok, I promised to do an update on the second day but it turned out that I was so busy networking and learning about new things, that I did not have a chance to write every day (lame excuse
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Thursday, May 06, 2004 8:32 PM

New Blog : Windows XP Embedded and Setup Issues

One of the Windows XP Embedded team (Aaron Stebner) now has a Blog up and running, this will be covering Windows XP Embedded and Setup issues (not together you understand), Aaron used to work in the Visual Studio team and has a ton of experience around
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Thursday, May 06, 2004 11:10 AM

MVP Chris Muench, day one at WinHEC.

Microsoft Embedded MVP Chris Muench has some thoughts about day one of WinHEC... Winhec 2004 - First day Well, not exactly the first day if you include the welcome reception on monday the 3rd but I would say...close enough:-). Wow(64 :-)), Microsoft if
Posted by mikehall | 2 Comments
Monday, May 03, 2004 11:05 PM

Happy Star Wars Day !!!

Happy Star Wars Day - ”May the 4th be with you” <groan> Today was the first day of WinHEC - we have some VoIP (Voice over IP) demos running in the innovations room, this includes a Broadcom phone running a pre-release version of Windows
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