mikehall

Paul Yao - What's new in the .NET Compact Framework 3.5

mikehall — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:43:58 GMT

Paul Yao (MVP) takes a look at the new and interesting features in the .NET Compact Framework for Mobile and Embedded Developers.

The .NET Compact Framework 3.5 ships as an update for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 as part of the QFE rollup for January 2008

- Mike

.NET Micro Framework 2.5

mikehall — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:24:30 GMT

Join Jim Mateer, a Program Manager on the .NET Micro Frakework team as he talks through the nexw (and exciting!) features in the .NET Micro Framework 2.5 release.

- Mike

Porting a CE 5.0 BSP to CE 6.0 (Travis Hobrla)

mikehall — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:02:22 GMT

Travis Hobrla presented this session at last years Mobile and Embedde Developers Conference - the session walks you through the process of porting a CE 5.0 BSP to CE 6.0 - in this case using the CE 5.0 "CEPC" BSP as the starting point for a new CE 6.0 BSP.

- Mike

Using CEDebugX with Windows Embedded CE 6.0 SP1

mikehall — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:55:05 GMT

Building an embedded operating system image is only part of the process for releasing a final product - Testing and diagnosis tools should also be an integral part of the release process - an operating system image may appear to be running just fine, but how do you really know that there aren't any issues lurking unseen within the operating system image - it's possible that your processes could corrupt heaps, orphan CriticalSections and do other nasty things, but how do you find out this has happened ?

This video shows the use of CEDebugX, a new (and extremely cool tool) that ships with the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 SP1 update.

Note that in the video I'm creating a KDump file, if you are running a debug image (or have the kernel debugger in your release image) you can run CEDebugX directly from the Windows CE Command Prompt against the operating system image without needing to create a kdump file.

- Mike

Mikehall: Managed Application development for Windows Embedded CE 6.0

mikehall — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:18:36 GMT

Mike Hall, Senior Technical Product Manager, demonstrates how to configure a baseline CE 6.0 operating system (OS) image - We then add the list of components to the OS image that are needed to support a managed application within Visual Studio 2005 as an application development tool. Once the booted image is running, Mike shows how to get an IP address and then configure Visual Studio 2005 to deploy an application to that running OS image.

Application Compatibility: Migrating Windows CE 5.0 Application to Windows Embedded CE 6.0

mikehall — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:08:34 GMT

Mike Hall (that's me!), Senior Technical Product Manager, provides insights into the new Application Compatibility Tool. The CEAppCompat Tool reads executables and device drivers, and then provides HTML results that show which APIs are being called that are no longer supported in CE 6.0, APIs that are only supported in the kernel, and APIs that may not be supported in the future.

Sue Loh: Windows CE - Analyzing Physical and Virtual Memory Usage Using Control Window Commands

mikehall — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:10:23 GMT

Sue Loh, Software Design Engineer on the Platform Builder Remote Tools Team, demonstrates how to look at virtual and physical memory usage on a device using control window commands. In this hands-on demonstration, Sue uses the Target Control Window to examine memory usage, and explains how to read memory dumps.

Windows CE Collecting Thread Data Without Remote Kernel Tracker

mikehall — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:42:21 GMT

Sue Loh, Software Design Engineer on the Platform Builder Remote Tools Team, will show how to collect CeLog threading data without a connection to Remote Kernel Tracker. This is a core method for collecting performance data on a standalone device. Sue will also show how to look at the data using a command-line parsing tool, readlog.

Windows Embedded CE - Understanding the Primary OEM Performance Tools

mikehall — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:33:22 GMT

Sue Loh, Software Design Engineer on the Platform Builder Remote Tools Team (Diagnostics), takes a look at the two most important performance tools for Windows CE OEMs: the kernel profiler and CeLog / Remote Kernel Tracker. In this talk it’s assumed the viewer is at least somewhat familiar with how to run the tools, the video will focus on understanding the relationship between the two.

What’s New in the Windows CE 6 Beta Platform Builder Tools - Part 2

mikehall — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:25:36 GMT

Jonathan Lyons, Program Manager on the CE 6.0 Platform Builder IDE Team, gives an overview of the process of debugging an OS Design. Jonathan also uses the new Run-Time Image Viewer Tool to examine the files and registry keys included in an nk.bin file. He will also use the tool to compare two nk.bin files.

What’s New in the Windows CE 6 Beta Platform Builder Tools - Part I

mikehall — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:40:48 GMT

Jonathan Lyons, Program Manager on the CE 6.0 Platform Builder IDE Team, will walk you through the process of bringing up an OS Design for a device, adding an application, and customizing the application using the new Platform Builder Tools in Visual Studio 2005.