Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Exam Preparation Kit in foreign languages available for download

The Exam Preparation Kit book (link) for the Microsoft Certification for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 is available for download in the following languages:

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Simplified Chinese
Other languages will be soon available for download.

- Nicolas

Adeneo delivers Windows Embedded CE training course with FREE development kits

Adeneo announced the planning for the next training session in the USA.

  • Seattle, WA – Sept 22nd to 26th 2008
  • Dallas, TX – Nov 17th to 21st 2008
  • Los Angeles, CA - Feb 16th to 20th 2009
  • Boston, MA - Apr 13th to 17th 2009
  • Denver, CO - Jun 8th to 12th 2009
  • Seattle, WA - Sept 21st to 25th 2009
  • Dallas, TX - Nov 16th to 20th 2009
Content: Microsoft official Windows Embedded CE 6.0 training with labs done on ARM based development kit
Cost per attendee: $2,500
Included in price:
  • 5 days of instructor led training on Windows Embedded CE 6.0. The training is delivered by one of our Senior Windows Embedded Developers who has the highest level of technical expertise on Windows Embedded CE - Training materials (printed manuals and a CD with all training manuals and files needed to complete the different labs)
  • Complete ARM based development kit which attendees can keep after the training session ($975 value)

Registration and information: Please contact contact.msembedded@adeneocorp.com
- Nicolas

Thursday, August 14, 2008

SQL Compact 3.5 SP1

The SQL Compact 3.5 SP1 has been released few weeks ago for Windows Mobile and was accessible only as a cab file for the Windows CE platforms. Now with the July's Windows CE QFE a component has been added to the catalog to give you a chance to easily integrate this feature inside your runtime images.

CE 6.0 July Update 2008 (includes SQL Compact 3.5 SP1)
CE 5.0 July Update 2008 (includes SQL Compact 3.5 SP1)

- Nicolas

Windows CE 6.0 MCTS Exam - Companion CD

I'm receiving lots of email asking me about the Windows CE 6.0 MCTS companion CD that illustrate the different labs of the MCTS exam book. Microsoft had to delayed the delivery of the CD as we get more work to do for the translation in the 6 different languages of the book.
This translation is nearly done and the release of those books will be grouped to the access to the companion CD.

- Nicolas

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Registry Modifications Notifications

The Windows CE registry is a good place to store applications, users settings. Those information are shared between the different processes running on the system, so content can be modified from every where.
One concrete exemple, is the backlight control panel applet that allows user to change the different timeout for switching off the screen when user inactivity is detected.So when user make changes using this applet, registry content is modified to reflect the changes. At this time, if a backlight driver exist for the platform, this driver have to update his internal timers according to the new values.
You can imagine the same mecanism between your applications and a driver, two drivers or two applications. In this case, you have to be notified when modification are done in this registry. Use the CeFindFirstRegChange,CeFindNextRegChange, CeRegGetNotificationInfo, CeRegTestSetValueWand and CeFindCloseRegChange functions for this.

- Nicolas

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

New Books

Two new books are available for the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 operating system


  • Professional Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0 from Samuel Phung


  • Windows® Embedded CE 6.0 Fundamentals from Stanislav Pavlov and Pavel Belevsky

Another FREE companion book for this technology is the Microsoft Certification for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Exam Preparation Kit, from Nicolas Besson, Rajesh Kakde and Ray Marcilla from Adeneo.

- Nicolas

Hardware runnning Windows CE ?


From the Microsoft website you can find the referenced hardwares running Windows CE.

Have a look to this list here.
- Nicolas