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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 1:25 PM

Windows CE Real Time Video

Some time ago we recorded an interview with John Eldridge, one of the Windows CE architects to discuss Windows CE real-time capabilities - this is now posted to the Windows CE Tutorials page (look under Intermediate level). Here's a direct link. 
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Monday, March 27, 2006 4:01 PM

CEImageDiff Updated.

I've been trying to track down the reason for the exception in CEImagDiff, one of the blog readers e-mailed me a sample PBXML file that caused the tool to crash - after some swift debugging I found the issue and have updated the tool - let me know whether
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Sunday, March 26, 2006 11:51 AM

Windows CE 5.0 Headless Tutorial.

I don't remember whether I posted about this or not - Last December I recorded a tutorial that shows how simple it is to build a Windows CE Headless device (link to video on my site) - I thought I had posted this to MSDN, but it's not on the Windows
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Friday, March 24, 2006 2:34 PM

Updated: Windows CE Image Diff Tool.

I've updated the Windows CE 5.0 Image Diff tool - The main change is to allow you to select an XML template file manually - here's the issue... If you examine the filenames of all the MSFT shipped platform templates (Internet_Appliance.xml, Tiny_Kernel.xml
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006 4:32 PM

Next version of Windows CE @ MEDC 2006

Want a good reason to come to MEDC 2006 ? We have embedded content covering Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded, and Windows Embedded for Point of Service (oh, and of course some Windows Mobile and Application Developer content!). If that's not enough for
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006 4:29 PM

Altoids box USB Charger for Mobile Devices.

This is kinda cool (in a totally geeky way) - John Coyne from Arrow (one of the speakers at this years MEDC event) sent me a link to the an article that shows how to make a USB device charger out of an Altoids box It will be interesting to see how
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Sunday, March 19, 2006 6:22 PM

Windows Mobile devices and themes.

I'm betting many of you have a Windows Mobile device - If you have a Windows Mobile Smartphone or Pocket PC have you changed the look and feel of the UI by adding a custom theme, ringtones or other enhancements ? - if so, what theme program are you
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Sunday, March 19, 2006 5:10 PM

Whoa! - Compact Framework Games running on XBOX 360 ?

Just been catching up with Mike Zintels blog - Mike starts off by rambling about app-compat and cross group development work - it's only when you get to the last couple of paragraphs that the post gets interesting... <snip>I know that my team
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Sunday, March 19, 2006 11:33 AM

Windows CE Image Diff - Diag Tool.

Some of you reported problems with the Windows CE Image Diff Tool - I'd like to determine what's causing the problem and get this working. I've written a diag tool that will walk the registry keys for Windows CE and then determine whether the tool
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Friday, March 17, 2006 12:13 PM

MSDN Channel9 : Chris Muench - writing managed 3D app for mobile devices

A few weeks back I met up with Chris Muench (MVP) who presented a session at last years MEDC event on writing managed 3D apps for Windows Mobile - here's a link to the video we recorded on MSDN Channel 9. - Mike  
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006 10:30 AM

ARMV4I Emulator - Working with CE 5.0 Platform Builder.

Barry Bond has just posted instructions for getting the ARMV4I Emulator working from Windows CE 5.0 Platform Builder - it's not as straight forward as using the existing x86 Emulator, but this works pretty well if you want to use the ARM emulator.
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:35 AM

Thought for the day...

I used to have a handle on life, but something released it... where's my debugger... - Mike
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Friday, March 10, 2006 12:49 PM

MSDN Channel 9: Building a WEPOS device.

Check out the Windows Embedded for Point of Service video on MSDN Channel 9 - I dropped by Craig Jensen's office a couple of weeks ago to find out how easy it is to plug together a Point of Service/Sale system using the .NET for POS SDK
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Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:46 AM

MEDC India: April 4-6 Bangalore.

The Mobile and Embedded Developers Confernce is coming to Bangalore India April (4-7), unfortunately I'm not going to be able to make it to this event, I'm going to be working at Embedded Systems West in San Jose, which is running at the same
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Thursday, March 09, 2006 9:38 AM

Windows Embedded for Point of Service 1.1 Released.

Windows Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS) 1.1 has been released - you can get the POS for .NET 1.1 download on MSDN Downloads. WEPOS 1.1 adds support for a series of new device types including coin dispenser, keylock, MICR (magnetic ink character
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Thursday, March 09, 2006 6:38 AM

MSDN Channel 9 reveals Project Origami

Details of Project Origami are starting to unfold... Want to know more about Project Origami ? - MSDN Channel 9 have an interview with the architect of the project - more information here The units shown in the video are larger than a Pocket PC, and
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Wednesday, March 08, 2006 5:27 PM

Windows CE 5.0 Monthly Updates.

Windows CE releases monthly and quarterly updates, some of the updates are new 'bits' for the catalog, the Compact Framework 2.0 components for example, others are QFE's - here's the last three updates for Windows CE 5.0. The 2005Q4 quarterly
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Wednesday, March 08, 2006 11:52 AM

Windows CE USB Webcam Driver - Need support ?

I've received a number of e-mails that are asking questions about the USB WebCam driver for Windows CE 5.0 - Note that there's a community discussion area on the GotDotNet workspace for you to ask questions, and also review Q&A from other community
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Wednesday, March 08, 2006 8:33 AM

Dave Baker: Embedded Developer Evangelist (UK)

The worldwide Embedded Developer Evangelist team is ramping up, one of the newest recruits is Dave Baker - Dave has been at Microsoft for about 5 years, working on embedded and POS solutions - Dave has a blog (only two entries so far!),
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Tuesday, March 07, 2006 5:12 PM

MEDC International - Flight Stats.

MEDC 2006 is hitting 9 cities/countries over a month (long month). For the international tour we're hitting Australia, Japan, and France in one segment, and then Malaysia, China, Korea and Taiwan on the second segment. Today I received my flight schedule
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Saturday, March 04, 2006 9:09 AM

The future of Windows XP Embedded.

The Windows XP Embedded product has been updated twice since release, the updates brought the product in line with SP1 and SP2 from the desktop - in both case *some* embedded enabling features were added or extended (HORM being added for SP2 for example)
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Friday, March 03, 2006 5:46 PM

MEDC Muglets

ok, nothing to say here, just check out my MEDC Muglet. Go ahead and create your own and post the link in the comments. MEDC 2006 is coming up fast, don't forget to register ! - Mike
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Friday, March 03, 2006 4:13 PM

MEDC International Dates/Locations now posted.

Loke has just published the list of dates/locaitons for the International MEDC events. We're going to be hitting 9 countries over a period of just over a month - the travel schedule looks like a nightmare, but I'm sure this is going to be a blast!
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Thursday, March 02, 2006 8:45 PM

Windows Embedded Student Challenge - Resources.

If you are taking part in this years Windows Embedded Student Challenge (or even if you're not taking part) you may be interested in some of the resources and blog that are now available on the LearningCE Student Challenge Web Site - Mike
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Thursday, March 02, 2006 3:05 PM

.NET Compact Framework 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition Support for Windows CE 4.2

Check out this blog post from Richard Greenberg on the Compact Framework team - looks like Windows CE 4.2 is going to be supported in Compact Framework SP1. One question that has come up recently from customers and MVPs is whether .NET Compact Framework
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Thursday, March 02, 2006 11:55 AM

Windows CE 5.0: Platform Diff and New Wizard.

A couple of months ago I talked about Windows CE 5.0 comparing workspaces - Here's the problem I was having that kicked off this whole process. I'd been working on a demo (I think this was for CES) over a period of a couple of months I worked
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006 3:35 PM

MSDN: New Video Tutorials posted.

The MSDN/Embedded tutorials page has just been updated to include the following videos. Introduction To Windows XP Embedded (Level 100)Using Visual Studio 2005 to build Managed Applications for Windows CE 5.0 (Level 300)Using Visual Studio 2005 to build
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006 3:18 PM

Windows Embedded Student Challenge: Need Digital I/O, I2C ?

If you're involved in the Windows Embedded Student Challenge you will be using an ICOP eBox reference board in your design - The box is an x86 based device that exposes serial, parallel, VGA, networking, 3xUSB ports, audio in/out - and has a BSP for Windows
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006 3:10 PM

Device Emulator: ARMV4I BSP for Windows CE 5.0

Don't you wish that Visual Studio 2005 had an emulator target for Windows CE 5.0 ? - voila! - Just released on MSDN is the Device Emulator: ARMV4I BSP for Windows CE 5.0 - this gives you the ability to generate an operating system image from Windows CE
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006 12:26 PM

Windows XP Embedded SP2 : Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4 + Augmented certification

Check out the Microsfot Common Criteria Certification article. As of December 2005, the following Microsoft Windows platform products have achieved Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4 + Augmented certification: • Microsoft
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:49 AM

Windows CE 5.0 : USB WebCam Shared Source Community Project.

At last years Windows Embedded Student Challenge there were two frequently asked for drivers/solutions for Windows CE 5.0, USB Wireless (posted about that yesterday) and USB WebCam. Today, we're launching a GotDotNet Windows CE 5.0 USB WebCam Shared
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