Design Template Selection (Windows CE 5.0)
Platform Builder for Microsoft Windows CE provides basic design templates to use as starting points for the creation of an OS.
Using the design templates provides the following benefits:
- They give you an example of how to develop an OS for a specific class of device.
- They reduce your overall OS development time.
After you choose a basic design template, you can modify it to suit your specific needs.
The following design templates are available from the Platform Builder New Platform Wizard.
| Design template | Description |
|---|---|
| Overview of Design Templates for Developing a Target Device | Provides the starting point for devices that require an OS design that can be fully customized.
These devices range from simple network devices with no display, to full-featured appliances with graphical displays, Internet browsing capabilities, and rich multimedia playback. |
| Digital Media Receiver | Provides the starting point for devices that play or store music, video, and other electronic media. |
| Enterprise Terminal | Provides a starting point for business terminals and transaction devices such as the following:
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| Enterprise Web Pad | Provides the basic functionality for consumer Web pads with a touch-screen user interface (UI) and 640x480 or larger display.
You can do the following:
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| Industrial Controller | Provides the starting point for industrial devices, such as human-machine interface (HMI) panels or programmable logic controllers (PLCs). |
| Internet Appliance | Provides the starting point for stationary, browser-based consumer Internet appliances, with a fixed display, such as a CRT or LCD, and a keyboard. |
| IP Phone | Provides a starting point for an Internet-based phone using Voice over IP (VoIP).
Supports both a basic phone with a two-line text display and an advanced phone with a QVGA touch screen, Exchange integration, advanced provisioning through Active Directory, audio call conferencing, and presence. |
| Mobile Handheld | Provides the starting point for a range of mobile devices with a clam-shell-and-keyboard design. |
| Mobile Phone | Provides the standard OS technologies required for building mobile handsets with wireless data, rich graphics, and 160x220 nominal display resolution.
The Mobile Phone design template includes the Microsoft Windows® CE Standard Shell and can optionally include the following:
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| Set-Top Box | Provides functionality for devices that are connected to a television for display of Internet and media content.
This design template includes the Windows CE Standard Shell with a browser-based TV user interface (UI). TV navigation functionality is turned on by default in the browser. A typical application might be a video-over-DSL set-top box with a browser-based TV user interface. |
| Tiny Kernel | Provides a starting point for the smallest functional Windows CE run-time image. |
| Windows Thin Client | Provides the starting point for remote-desktop terminals and includes the functionality necessary to support a remote desktop device, such as a constrained shell and the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). |
See Also
Creating an OS Design with the New Platform Wizard
Last updated on Thursday, February 02, 2006
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