I have completed writing the book on developing device driver for Windows CE AKA Windows Embedded Compact. If everything goes right April the book is out.

Hello everyone, Last week I talked about what I have planned for the coming weeks, so here it is. Before we start working with Windows CE let us have a look at what is required for the development. Two categories that we we need to see here are; 1: Hardware:- For this there is really nothing much to discuss since it’s a choice that you will make when you start working with your projects, but for our discussion I will be using ICOP eBox 2300/4300. 2: Software:- Here we will need two tools: Visual Studio 2005 and the Platform builder for CE 6.0 plugin. So, where do we get these from? You can either buy the CD’s from Microsoft or download the tools from their website. I got the CD’s when I took part in SPARK challenge. Visual Stusio 2005:- Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It can be used to develop console and graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code and man ...

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The first feature that I like most is not really a feature of the system but rather of Platform Builder, the BSP templates. This really is a neat feature enabling BSP developers to jumpstart a new BSP. The second feature that I like is the ability of an OEM of either an ARM or x86 architecture based devices to support 3 GB of RAM and the kernel detects it “automatically”. At last you can support multicore based devices, even though I’d still prefer to have this support available to the developer to control, but that will not happen.

This is my first post here. Just a little about myself and what I will write about in the coming weeks.

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- That is for those whose subscriber downloads permit on MSDN

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This is my first post here so I’ll be brief. Just testing the capabilities of Live Writer and thinking about a short article I have in mind on the new feature in Windows Embedded Compact 7: Filter device drivers.

Just got news that its out:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/campaigns/compact7/default.aspx

The trial version is there for download.