A Generic Compact 2013 Operating System for Application Development – Outline

Requirements

• Have only minimal shell
• Have all of the OS Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
• Have required tools and configuration to deploy and launch OS but not debug the OS
• Have required tools and configuration to deploy, launch and debug app.

Have ability to:

• Run Remote Tools
• Install and remove apps using .cab files

No clutter

• Don’t need XAML OS Shell components to run XAML apps
• Can impact upon performance

Key components

(i)Application and Services Development Components

• NET Compact Framework: managed Code
• C Runtime, Standard C++ Library
• Diagnostics and Debugging Tools
• Cab Installer/Uninstaller
• ATL & MFC
• XML is an optional extra
  
• XAML gets added in Shell and User Interface

(ii) Shell and User Interface Components

• Minimal Shell
  • Gives simple shell (MinShell)
  • All that is needed for app development
• Do not add Sample Home Screen and Themes
  • These are XAML shell and not needed
  • XAML apps(XWE) WILL run in MinShell
• Command Shell
  • Add both of these so that can do command line actions
• XAML for Windows Embedded (XWE)
  • Select both items
  • No XWE apps without them
• Control Panels
  • Select required items
  • Note the Control Panel app: CtlPn2.exe
  • These are XAML applets
  • As are most configuration widgets in Compact2013
  • Chosen items add CSPs under Device Management

(iii) Other

Need:

• CoreCon files in OS for SDK application development
• Support for KITL and running apps from the release directory
• Support for Remote Tools

Summary

• A minimalist generic Windows Embedded Compact 2013 operating system can be implemented for application development.
• This has all of the OS APIs to support applications built with:
  • C/C++
  • Windows Embedded XAML
  • Managed Code
  • MFC and ATL
• It has tools to support application development:
  • KITL
  • CoreCon
  • Remote Tools

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