Ardjson–Part 3: Command line Json: cURL.exe

Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2015 4:26 AM By David Jones

An Azure Mobile Service table can be simply manipulated via a command line app called cURL.exe

Ardjson – Part 2: Morphing The ToDo Sample Mobile Services Project into the Telemetry Project

Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2015 11:57 PM By David Jones

How to modify the Mobile Services sample ToDo List application into something useful.

Ardjson – Part 1: A New IOT Project on Codeplex

Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2015 9:10 PM By David Jones

A new Codeplex project as follow up to my recent IOT presentation focusing upon Embedded Devices interacting with an Azure Mobile Service.

Compact 7 Wave 2 Released

Posted on Monday, February 9, 2015 1:50 AM By David Jones

A new release of Windows Embedded Compact 7 is available on MSDN which is a rollup of all previous updates packaged as a new installation.

Another Gotcha: Smartdevice apps with Compact 7

Posted on Friday, February 6, 2015 2:55 AM By David Jones

App development outside of Compact 7 Platform Builder involves using a second instance of Visual Studio for a Smartdevice .Project. The target OS must have the correct version of Corecon that VS targets it with.

Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi!

Posted on Monday, February 2, 2015 4:35 AM By David Jones

Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a partnership with Microsoft who will offer Windows 10 for Rasberry Pi: Blog entry

Did my first presentation today on IOT.

Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2015 2:28 PM By David Jones

Doing an embedded presentation on IOT. Involves Azure, Arduino, REST, Json and  Windows Embedded..

PBScripts Revisited-1

Posted on Friday, October 31, 2014 4:19 PM By David Jones

Some PBScripts to use in Platform Builder.

WEC Build error: Can't find file windows.h

Posted on Sunday, October 5, 2014 1:52 AM By David Jones

Solution: Clean out the build and do a rebuild.

Something in the OS configuration,I don't know what, has got corrupted. Works every time for me!

Another: When building get an error that says not much more than “In” .

Solution: You’re building whilst the OS is running. Shut it down first.

Windows Embedded Compact 2013 SDK Build Issue

Posted on Tuesday, September 9, 2014 5:26 AM By David Jones

eMVP ErwinZwart (GURUCE.com) has blogged on his site wrt a problem when attempting to build a WEC 2013 SDK.  http://guruce.com/blogpost/wec2013-gensdk-build-error You typically get a message such as: ------ Build started: Project: OSDesign10, Configuration: VAR-SOM-AM33 ARMV7 Release Platform Builder (_TGTCPU) ------ Starting Build: call "C:\Users\DAVIDJ~1\AppData\Local\Temp\PB\BuildSdks.bat" ============== Microsoft .NET Framework 4.x Full installed. "SET PRJ variables because IMGREGHIVE=1" Wince ARMV7 CEBASE VAR_SOM_AM33   Development Environment for DavidJones "C:\WINCE800\public\common\oak\bin\i386\BuildOutputFilter.exe" -- "C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe" /d /c "call "C:\Users\DAVIDJ~1\AppData\Local\Temp\PB\BuildSdks.bat"" C:\WINCE800\build.log(3) : Warning: You have one or more CPU families to be included in the SDK that have missing or out-of-date headers and libraries. Make sure to build the following configurations: VAR-SOM-AM33 ...