Windows CE

Mike Hall (that's me!), Senior Technical Product Manager, provides insights into the new Application Compatibility Tool.  The CEAppCompat Tool reads executables and device drivers, and then provides HTML results that show which APIs are being called that are no longer supported in CE 6.0,…

Sue Loh, Software Design Engineer on the Platform Builder Remote Tools Team, demonstrates how to look at  virtual and physical memory usage on a device using control window commands. In this hands-on demonstration, Sue uses the Target Control Window to examine memory usage, and explains how…

Sue Loh, Software Design Engineer on the Platform Builder Remote Tools Team, will show how to collect CeLog threading data without a connection to Remote Kernel Tracker.  This is a core method for collecting performance data on a standalone device.  Sue will also show how to look at…

Sue Loh, Software Design Engineer on the Platform Builder Remote Tools Team (Diagnostics), takes a look at the two most important performance tools for Windows CE OEMs: the kernel profiler and CeLog / Remote Kernel Tracker.  In this talk it’s assumed the viewer is at least somewhat familiar…

Jonathan Lyons, Program Manager on the CE 6.0 Platform Builder IDE Team, gives an overview of the process of debugging an OS Design.  Jonathan also uses the new Run-Time Image Viewer Tool to examine the files and registry keys included in an nk.bin file.  He will also use the tool to…

Brian Cross is, like, really smart. That's what I've decided.   He woke up one day and felt like building a robot...   ...so he did.   He's come along way from his early attempts, and he now has multiple hardware platforms which all tie into a single brain. That brain is a…

Jonathan Lyons, Program Manager on the CE 6.0 Platform Builder IDE Team, will walk you through the process of bringing up an OS Design for a device, adding an application, and customizing the application using the new Platform Builder Tools in Visual Studio 2005.

Mike Calligaro came to Microsoft thirteen years ago to help build a supercomputer. But, two days before his arrival, the project evaporated, leaving Mike on the payroll but without a position.   This isn't an unheard of situation for new hires, but Mike's story, detailing all the…

This is a sort of informal "Part Two" of the interview with Mike Hall and Derek Snyder. In this short video, Mike Hall shows me a device that he built which was way too nifty to ignore. I was about to leave his office after the first part of this interview when I spotted it on his…

There's some confusion among geeks about what the differences are between Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded, and Windows Mobile. In this video, I talk with Mike Hall and Derek Snyder about these differences, and what I got was a crystal clear explanation. Then Derek goes on to demo a few…