Windows CE

In response to an NYT article about Windows for a small world, blogger Mike Hall reminds us that there are tons of things out there running Windows – we just may not know it. Windows CE, also known by its full name "Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2,” is a embeddable OS that lets OEMs build…

ZDNet has an interesting story about hardware solutions for the Presidential Crackberry obsession. It turns out Obama may not have to give up his PDA after all, there are some secure options out there based on Windows. The article doesn't specify what flavor of Windows, but I'm going to guess…

This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss: - Oxite: The open source ASP.NET MVC Content Management System (Adam Kinney's interview with the team)  - Roger Alsing uses Genetic Program to shape 50 polygons into the Mona Lisa - Justin Needham and Matthew Straub use Windows CE to…

Paul Yao (MVP) takes a look at the new and interesting features in the .NET Compact Framework for Mobile and Embedded Developers. The .NET Compact Framework 3.5  ships as an update for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 as part of the QFE rollup for January 2008 - Mike

Travis Hobrla presented this session at last years Mobile and Embedde Developers Conference - the session walks you through the process of porting a CE 5.0 BSP to CE 6.0 - in this case using the CE 5.0 "CEPC" BSP as the starting point for a new CE 6.0 BSP. - Mike

This week the Windows Embedded group released Windows Embedded 6.0 and Scott Davis invited me over to talk about gadgets, where things are going, and why you may not have as many cables in the future. Embedded systems are quickly becoming the norm, from digital picture frames and remote…

Building an embedded operating system image is only part of the process for releasing a final product - Testing and diagnosis tools should also be an integral part of the release process - an operating system image may appear to be running just fine, but how do you really know that there aren't…

The Mobile and Embedded Devices Conference (MEDC) is taking place in Vegas next week, and I thought I'd post a little fun here to get things going. Mel Sampat stopped by to demo some fancy-schmancy stuff in Windows Mobile 6.0. There's more going on now for both devs and users. One of the…

In part 1, I used the Visual Studio Orcas Sync Designer to configure and synchronize 3 lookup tables to be cached locally in SQL Server Compact Edition using the Sync Services for ADO.NET CTP. In part 2, I take the cached lookup tables and split up the client and server sync components using…

Mike Hall, Senior Technical Product Manager, demonstrates how to configure a baseline CE 6.0 operating system (OS) image - We then add the list of components to the OS image that are needed to support a managed application within Visual Studio 2005 as an application development tool.  Once…