Microsoft has announced plans for several Windows Embedded Compact 7 updates, one planned for the fourth quarter of this year (Q4CY11) and one for the second half of 2012 (2HCY12).
According to the EE Times report. Next year’s version will get an updated kernel, faster file system, and broader hardware support.
I think it’s […]
The Microsoft Embedded Compact 7 team have released the third update to Windows Embedded Compact 7 (previously named Windows CE).
You can get the update via WEDU in your Platform Builder or it can downloaded from here.
This update provides new tools, application updates and bug fixes for Windows Embedded Compact 7:
Windows Embedded CE6 R3 supports both .NET CF 2.0 and 3.5. Great you think, but Visual Studio 2005 debugger only supports .NET CF 2.0. This can lead to some very ambiguous behavior when trying to debug .NET CF applications on a CE6 R3 device.
Picture the following scenario. You have a Windows CE6 R3 device which […]
Direct Insight was recently involved in running a Windows Embedded Compact 7 event at the UK Microsoft Campus. From which an article has been written including information and quotes from me and colleagues.
You can find the article here at MTEMAG web site.
Please have a read […]
Article on soft-control architectures as a replacement for dedicated DSP hardware.
Having introduced Compact 7 to a good-size audience on Tuesday at Microsoft’s Offices in Reading, UK, I thought it would be useful to begin to blog some of the very useful information that was presented.
The case for Compact 7 is focused on productivity enhancements provided by new features and tools, and in particular the ability […]
Our Compact 7 launch event at Microsoft Campus on Tuesday was very well attended, with most of the 80+ registered delegates arriving eventually despite a local traffic meltdown. Following Lorraine Bardeen's inspiring keynote, excellent sessions from ARM, Freescale, TI, UICentric and Captec were alternated with Compact 7 sessions from Direct Insight...
If you're wondering what the real deal is with the new version of Windows CE, and would like to hear from key stakeholders including ARM, Texas Instruments and Freescale
After deploying a managed code application to a windows CE6 R3 device you get a deployment error something like:
Deploying ‘C:willVBProjectsCEAppbinDebugHelloWorld.exe’
Deploying ‘C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 8SmartDevicesSDKCompactFramework2.0v2.0windowscediagnosticsSystem_SR_enu.cab’
Post-deploy error 0x00000001 returned after calling ‘Windowswceload.exe /noui WindowsSystem_SR_enu.cab’.
========== Build: 1
Visual Studio 2005 will attempt to download the .NET CF 2.0 cab file (System_SR_enu.cab) and automatically install if the device does […]
I encountered an error the other day when downloading Windows Embedded Compact 7 to a Windows Virtual PC on a Windows 7 host machine. Platform Builder initially started the download process and then immediately stopped with a TFTP time out error.
I found this entry on Olivier Bloch […]