Develop a driver easily...

CEDriverWiz is a Windows Embedded CE wizard that works within the Visual Studio IDE, helps simplify the tasks needed to setup the initial subproject workspace to develop stream interface device driver for Windows CE 6.0.


Check out all the details about this nice project on CodePlex.

- Nicolas

Windows Embedded Standard 7 Compatible Applications

Most applications that run on Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP will run on Windows Embedded Standard 7. Through the use of templates, we now make it easy to ensure that all of your application development projects will run on Windows Embedded Standard 7. These templates allow an application developer to indicate which components should be included in the build in order to support their application on embedded systems.

Microsoft is providing for the most used applications, templates that you can use to integrate those apps in your runtime image. Check out the list here.
- Nicolas

Windows Phone 7 App Contest

For the launch of Windows Phone 7, the French Microsoft entity organize a contest for the killer app.

Check out on Developper.net facebook page, the registered application and vote for your favorite one (before Friday evening).
http://www.facebook.com/Developpeurs.net

One of my favorite is : WinMote 7 application
www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=474533036010

- Nicolas

Windows Embedded Developer Update

On June 28, 2010 Windows Embedded Developer Update for Windows Embedded Standard 7 users was made available for download. Windows Embedded Developer Update gives developers an easy method to discover, download and install updates, providing them with full control of their development environment and the confidence to know they've got the latest update.

• To download Windows Embedded Developer Update please visit the Windows Embedded Download Center


• For a video overview on Windows Embedded Developer Update visit The Windows Embedded News Center


• For more information on how to use Windows Embedded Developer Update visit MSDN

- Nicolas

Make Image and the "Out of buffer space" error

An error that you could face on is the "Out of buffer space" error occuring during the Windows CE makeimage step.

.....
CeNlsCmp: JamoSort Compose: 1120
CeNlsCmp: Default Lang Except uppercase: 52
CeNlsCmp: Default Lang Except lowercase: 32
CeNlsCmp: 0 Lang Except tables: 0
Total data: 96714
CeNlsCmp: Done. Success parsing locale file
makeimg: FATAL ERROR: Out of buffer space.
makeimg: FATAL ERROR: Out of buffer space.

BLDDEMO: EVM_3530 build complete.
.....

It just happens to me this morning, while buiding a RunTime image for a project, and even looking into the log and error files, no specific details should explain the reason why.
By looking more in details I found that the path to my reldir folder was longer than the previous projects I work on. So I moved my OSDesign to a different folder with a shorter path length. And it fix this issue.

So the make image process is waiting for a path that could not exceed a path length. In this case reduce this path length by renaming with shorter names the folder containing your OSDesign (if this one isn't located inside _WINCEROOT\OSDesigns folder)

- Nicolas

Windows Embedded Handheld revealed

Microsoft just officially launch the operating system dedicated for enterprise and rugged devices. In the middle between Windows CE and Windows Phone, this new operating system offers to OEM a standardized platform to build their devices. The first company to provide such device is Motorola with its ES400.

Check out Steve Ballmer interview : http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/products/handheld/overview.mspx

- Nicolas

PipeTerm for Windows Embedded CE 6.0

PipeTerm is a Windows Embedded CE 6.0 PowerToy that can be used to display serial port (debug) output from a booting/running CE 6.0 operating system image being hosted in Virtual PC 2007.

Check it here.

- Nicolas