Windows Embedded Blog
A look at Embedded and other Cool Stuff.
Engadget: Windows Mobile 6.5 walkthrough (with video)
Engadget are at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, looks like they managed to get some time...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/16/2009
ESC West: Meet the Windows Embedded Design Team
If you are planning on attending ESC West (ESC Silicon Valley as it’s now called), you have the...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/13/2009
More sessions at ESC West
[WCE304] How is Windows Embedded CE a Hard Real Time embedded system? Kurt Kennett Tuesday, 2:00pm —...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/11/2009
Embedded Systems West Session – Industrial Solutions: Sensors to Servers
Chris Muench and I will be presenting a session at Embedded Systems Conference West – here’s the...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/10/2009
TechEd 2009 Embedded Pre-Conference Tutorials now available for signup…
Olivier Bloch has just posted some information about the TechEd 2009 (week of May 11th) US event,...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/04/2009
Does size really matter?
The first embedded release of Windows CE shipped in 1998 (the Embedded Tool Kit, or ETK), at every...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/04/2009
Linux use in embedded systems declining
The choice of embedded operating system for your next generation device is increasingly important,...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/26/2009
Windows CE Online Chat – Tuesday Jan 27th 2009
This months Windows CE online chat is coming up, here’s the details. Windows Embedded CE and Windows...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/23/2009
Another Windows CE 6.0 device (Meizu M8)
Here's another example of an interesting Windows CE 6.0 based device - the Meizu M8 - Mike
Author: mikehall Date: 01/22/2009
Windows CE (not dead) Devices
Olivier Bloch has posted some devices that are running Windows CE on his blog, some that you may be...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/21/2009
B Gates
- Mike
Author: mikehall Date: 01/21/2009
Is Windows CE dead?
Just read an article on the NY Times site "Can Microsoft make Windows for a small world?"...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/15/2009
Join the Windows Embedded conversation on Facebook
A number of people from the Windows Embedded team are taking time to talk about their role and...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/15/2009
Want to learn C#? - Get the yellow book.
Rob Miles has posted a PDF of his C# Yellow Book on his blog - if you are new to managed programming...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/11/2009
Want to know more about the Sparks will Fly competition?
Olivier Bloch, evangelist guy in the Windows Embedded team dropped by my office about a week ago to...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/07/2009
WE-DIG January 2009 meeting - Silverlight Mobile, Wednesday Jan 7th
When: Wednesday January 7th 2009, 6:30pm Where: Mount Si, Bldg 118, Microsoft Campus, Redmond WA...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/07/2009
What is Windows CE ? - Here's Dion with the answer.
Here's Dion Hutchings, Technical Product Manager describing Windows CE in only 5 minutes (but only...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/07/2009
SPARK Competition - Round 1 Ends Jan 7th!
Don't forget that you only have a few days left to complete your entry to the SPARKs will Fly...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/04/2009
GigaPixel Panorama - Windows CE, ICOP eBox - Cool!
Here's another really cool project from Georgia Institute of Technology - the GigaPixel Panorama...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/11/2008
Digitally Assisted Billiards
This is extremely cool, digitally assisted billiards running on Windows Embedded CE 6.0, software...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/10/2008
ESC Boston presentations are now (really) online.
The ESC Boston presentations are now (really) online and DRM free :) Here's the blog post from...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/02/2008
Problems with ESC Boston slides download.
I’ve had reports from a number of you that the slides from ESC Boston can’t be downloaded, it looks...
Author: mikehall Date: 11/19/2008
Slides from ESC Boston now available online.
Olivier Bloch has just posted all of the session slides from ESC Boston online – here’s the blog...
Author: mikehall Date: 11/18/2008
Play media from .NET Compact Framework on Windows Embedded CE
I got an e-mail this morning that contained a link to an interesting series of blog posts on the...
Author: mikehall Date: 11/05/2008
Back to Basic…
Remember when you first got started programming, probably using Basic? (actually, my first touch...
Author: mikehall Date: 11/05/2008
Online training content for CE 6.0 (Videos, Documentation)
To assist Spark developers get up to speed creating their “home of the future” (Sparks will fly...
Author: mikehall Date: 11/04/2008
Sending e-mail from .NET Micro Framework
Pavel Bánský has been working on more cool .NET Micro Framework, I just found this article over on...
Author: mikehall Date: 11/04/2008
TechEd 2009 US - Moves back to one week combined Developer & IT Pro
It's official - TechEd 2009 US will move back to the one week format, combining Developer and IT Pro...
Author: mikehall Date: 11/04/2008
Thursday November 6th, 1pm-2pm PST: Webinar - Windows Embedded CE and Handheld Solutions
Join Dion Hutchings, Technical Product Manager for Windows Embedded CE this Thursday from 1pm-2pm...
Author: mikehall Date: 11/03/2008
Interesting sessions from PDC (Full session videos)
I didn’t get to attend PDC 2008, I was in Boston at ESC East at the time the PDC event was running –...
Author: mikehall Date: 11/03/2008
NETMF 3.0, Windows 7 Embedded, Spark Competition, Tools Updates.
There were a number of announcements made at ESC East (and PDC) that might be of interest for both...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/31/2008
Channel 9 Video: Ori Amiga, CarPC running Live Mesh
Ori Amiga shows Live Mesh running on a Car PC, which was custom made for this project. Ori Amiga:...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/31/2008
PDC IHeart->Hardware();
This week there are two events running at the same time, Embedded Systems Conference East here in...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/27/2008
CE6 MSDN Article: Delay load drivers for faster boot times
Yuqun Cao, a Software Development Engineer on the Windows CE JDP team has written and published an...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/23/2008
CEFileWiz – Easily add files to a CE 4.2, 5.0, or 6.0 Operating System Design.
In the last two days I’ve received a few e-mails from people asking for a copy of CEFileWiz, here’s...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/23/2008
Afternoon Snack… Trying out international food.
Someone at work decided it would be good to try out some international foods over the next couple of...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/23/2008
CE6: Using Imaging APIs to load/display images.
I recently blogged about one of the sessions I’m presenting at ESC East on application development,...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/23/2008
Maker Faire: .NET Micro Framework and Microsoft Robotics Studio win "Editors Choice" awards!
Just found this over on the .NET Micro Framework blog - the .NET Micro Framework and Microsoft...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/20/2008
Imagine Cup 2008: The Embedded Development Story.
If you are not already signed up for the 2009 Imagine Cup then you should take a look at the...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/16/2008
GNU running on Windows CE
Couldn’t resist :O) - Mike
Author: mikehall Date: 10/14/2008
The joys of late night O/S and application debugging…
ESC East is just a couple of weeks out and I’m busy working on my session content, and demos – one...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/14/2008
CE6 – Instant SDK?
I’m busy bashing out my Win32 code for the “choose an API” session at ESC East, I’m using Visual...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/10/2008
Which API should I use? – Using the .NET Compact Framework.
A couple of days ago I published an article which talked about a session I’m presenting at ESC East...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/09/2008
.NET Micro Framework Competition – Dare to dream different challenge.
The .NET Micro Framework team are running a competition called the Dare to dream different...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/08/2008
Does this video make you want to go to the PDC ?
Just found this video on Engadget – Does this make you want to go to the PDC? (or come to my...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/08/2008
Q: Which API should I use?
I’m going to be presenting a couple of sessions at ESC East, Boston October 26th-30th (both of my...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/08/2008
Windows Embedded Sessions at the Embedded Systems Conference Boston (Oct
ESC Boston is running October 26-30, the Windows Embedded team is running a series of sessions (and...
Author: mikehall Date: 09/26/2008
Imagine Cup 2009: Solve the World's Toughest Problems (sign up now!)
The United Nations has identified some of the hardest challenges in the world today in its...
Author: mikehall Date: 09/24/2008