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Win 10 IoT Core: Universal Windows Apps Sideloading (Updated)

Friday, September 11, 2015 12:27 AM - David Jones - Windows 10, Universal Apps, Windows 10 IoT, Universal Windows Platform, AppX, App Deployment, Universal Windows apps, Sideloading - No Comments »

This is a work in progress. The objective is to be able to directly load a Universal Windows App from an Appx package on a Windows 10 IoT RPI2, The blocking issue is a PIN requirement. I can package up the app and deploy it to my development machine and a Win 10 phone but not to my RPI2. Updated for Web Portal IoT Package installation.

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Upgrade Compact 2013 Development PC to Windows 10

9/10/2015 11:04 AM - Samuel Phung - Compact 2013, Windows 10 - No Comments »

If you are still using Windows 7 or Windows 8 to develop Windows Embedded Compact 2013 solution and hesitate to migrate to Windows 10, check out this entry.

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Windows Embedded Compact 2013 App Builder–Sept 15 Update

Wednesday, September 9, 2015 12:33 AM - David Jones - - No Comments »

Now available on Microsoft Downloads.

Application Builder for Windows Embedded Compact 2013 (with the latest fixes as of Sep 2015) provides the tools you need to develop applications that target Windows Embedded Compact 2013. Is an update for Visual Studio 2012/13, not VS 2015.

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Win 10 IoT Core: Remote Access

Sunday, September 6, 2015 6:04 PM - David Jones - Windows 10, Windows Embedded, IoT, Universal Windows Platform, Windows 10 IoT - 1 Comments

There is no console for a Windows 10 IoT device. They can though be remotely accessed in a variety of ways. This blog summarises these options:
PowerShell, Default App Web Console, FTP, Remote File System and Visual Studio Debugger.

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Windows 10 IoT Core: Getting the MAC Address from Raspberry Pi

9/4/2015 10:13 AM - Bruce Eitman - Windows 10 IoT Core - 4 Comments

Never one to back down from a challenge, I decided to try to get the MAC address from my Raspberry Pi running Windows 10 IoT Core. It was clear to me from doing some searching that Windows Universal Apps cannot get the MAC address, but all of that advice might just be wrong. Conventional wisdom is that we don’t need to know the MAC address because it is just a unique number, and we can get a UUID associated with our system – but that is to ignore the reasons why we might want the MAC address, which include but are not limited to: 1. We have a tradition of identifying systems using the MAC address of the on board Ethernet port, so changing it now would create unnecessary work. 2. We need to show the user the MAC address so they can set up their router with a static IP for the device. 3. Manufacturing needs a way to confirm the MAC address Th ...

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