Windows Embedded Blog
A look at Embedded and other Cool Stuff.
Heading to Paris/France for TechDays.
Friday Feb 2nd I'm heading for Paris/France for TechDays - We have a number of embedded sessions at...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/01/2007
Embedded Development: Forget the O/S!
I'm presenting a session at Embedded world 2007 - the title of my session is "Embedded Development:...
Author: mikehall Date: 02/01/2007
MEDC 2007: What would your keynote look like ?
Event season is kicking off in a couple of weeks with Tech Days in Paris and Embedded World in...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/26/2007
POS.NET - Graphical version of POSDM.
Sean Liming (author of Windows XP Embedded and Windows Embedded for Point of Service) book fame has...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/19/2007
Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded CE - what's the difference ?
A very common question that perhaps needs some explanation is the difference between Windows Mobile...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/17/2007
CE 6.0: Train the Trainer.
It's Tuesday January 16th 2007 - we're in building 31 on Microsoft Campus running the Train the...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/16/2007
Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Train the Trainer.
This week we have training companies from across the globe attending a "Train the Trainer" event for...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/15/2007
SJJ Embedded Micro Solutions - XPE Industrial Development Kit (IDK).
SJJ Embedded Micro Solutions have announced an XPE development kit that fully supports Windows XP...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/15/2007
MEDC 2007 Las Vegas (May 1-3), Registration now open.
The registration site for the Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference (MEDC) 2007 is now open!...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/15/2007
And then it snowed (again).
Late November 2006 we had a snow storm that pretty much brought the Bellevue/Redmond area to a...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/11/2007
Imagine Cup - Embedded Invitational - Support Forum.
If you are involved in the Imagine Cup Embedded Invitational and have questions about Windows...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/10/2007
Anyone got a floppy I could borrow ?
I've been tasked with building a demo that will translate into an article for MSDN, this requires...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/10/2007
Microsoft Research Group Shot
No, this isn't what you were thinking, this is a super cool new MSR application called Group Shot....
Author: mikehall Date: 01/09/2007
CoreCon 1.0 vs. 5.01 - what's the difference ?
If you have Visual Studio 2005 and the CE 6.0 development tools installed you may have noticed that...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/05/2007
"Stand Alone" Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Test Kit available for download.
The CE 6.0 CETK (CE Test Kit) is now available as a stand-alone download. This means that testers...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/04/2007
MEDC 2007 Web Site LIVE!
The Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference 2007 (MEDC) is coming up in just a few months, the US...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/04/2007
CE 6.0: Booting processes with Command Line Options.
CE based devices have a couple of options for booting applications at startup. 1. The Registry. The...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/04/2007
Win32API(), COM->Objects( ), or Managed.Code() ?
you've decided you need to write some code, this could be for a real project (something that gets...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/03/2007
WE-DIG Meeting: Jan 3rd 2007 - MS Campus, Building 118, Mt Si room.
Note that this evenings WE-DIG meeting is taking place in the Mt Si room of Building 118 on...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/03/2007
Scientific American: Bill Gates talks about "A Robot in Every Home"
Interesting article written by Bill Gates talking about robotics - one of the comments in the...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/02/2007
Upcoming Chats.
Here's a couple of dates/times for your calendar. Windows CE 6.0 Online Chat - Jan 31st 2007, 9:00am...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/02/2007
A look back at "Embedded" 2006.
It's new years eve, the end of quite an interesting year in the mobile and embedded world. Here's a...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/31/2006
Cleaning up Blog Roll.
I've updated my blog roll (right side of blog page) to include some interesting blogs that were...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/29/2006
The Moth memes me. Or, 5 things you didn't know about me...
The Moth has "Tagged me" and has posted 5 things you probably didn't know about him, so I guess I...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/28/2006
.NET MicroFramework book - want to review it ?
Donald Thompson, Architect on the .NET MicroFramework team (links to a new .NET MicroFramework MSDN...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/27/2006
Project Socrates - Phidgets How To.
Jim Wilson, embedded MVP (Jim, where's your blog site URL?) - has posted an excellent tutorial on...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/27/2006
Geeking out on Christmas Eve...
Twas the night before Christmas and not even the (computer) mouse was moving... My family and I were...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/27/2006
Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Released
Visual Studio 2005 SP1 has been released, this is needed if you are using Visual Studio for CE 6.0...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/19/2006
Living off the grid...
Having been without power (and connectivity) at home since last Thursday due to the huge wind storm...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/19/2006
MEDC 2007 - Session and Lab Triage.
It's Thursday December 14th 2006 - MEDC 2007 is five months out - today is the big session and lab...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/14/2006
CE 6.0 Gumstix BSP CodePlex Project.
Looks like the CE 6.0 BSP for Gumstix™ is getting close to being posted online - there's a new...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/14/2006
Channel9 Screencast: Managed Application development for Windows Embedded CE 6.0
Building an embedded operating system is typically just the start of the development process - you...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/14/2006
Channel 9 Screencast: CE Application Compatibility (CEAppCompat)
Just before launch of CE 6.0 I spent a few minutes over with the CE documentation team talking about...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/13/2006
Microsoft Robotics Studio Released!
Today, December 12th Microsoft Robotics Studio is released free of charge for non-commercial use...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/13/2006
Channel 9 Screencast: Analyzing Physical and Virtual Memory Usage
Continuing todays MSDN Channel 9 screencast series, here's another extremely useful tutorial from...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/12/2006
Georgia Tech: Phidgets LCD RSS Display.
This is kinda cool, some students over at Georgia Tech have been working with Windows CE and...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/12/2006
Channel 9 Screencast: Windows CE, Collecting Thread Data Without Remote Kernel Tracker
It's like a storm of cool and interesting embedded videos are hitting Channel 9 today... Here's the...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/12/2006
Channel 9 Screencast: Sue Loh, understanding Performance Tools.
Here's another excellent Channel 9 video to keep you busy... Sue Loh (CE_Base blog) a developer on...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/12/2006
Channel 9 Screencast: What's new in CE 6.0 Platform Builder Tools - Part 2
Head over to MSDN Channel 9 to join Jonathan Lyons for the second part of his look at what's new in...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/12/2006
Channel 9 day... Driver development with Mike Calligaro
Gosh, it must be Channel 9 day or something, here's another great video over on MSDN Channel 9 -...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/12/2006
Channel 9 Screencast: What's new in CE 6.0 Platform Builder Tools - Part 1
Head over to MSDN Channel 9 to join Jonathan Lyons, program manager on the CE 6.0 tools team for a...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/12/2006
XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 Released!
The XNA team has released v1.0 of XNA Game Studio Express - this release supports game development...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/11/2006
Imagine Cup: Embedded Invitational, latest Stats...
I received some stats on the number of teams signed up for Imagine Cup Embedded Invitational - right...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/07/2006
iCup finally arrives...
Yesterday the Starbucks iCup machines got fitted into the drinks areas across the MED (Mobile and...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/07/2006
Halo3 Beta - call for testers!
Just seen this on BetaNews - Bungie is asking for xbox 360 owners (in North America) to sign up for...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/07/2006
WE-DIG Meeting - Gumstix running on CE 6.0
At this evenings WE-DIG meeting (Building 118, Microsoft Campus, Redmond, WA) we got to see a...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/07/2006
CE 6.0: Setting breakpoints in BIB files!
An interesting side effect of moving the Platform Builder tools into the VS 2005 shell is that it's...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/05/2006
CE 6.0: Why Remote Spy doesn't (cross process window subclassing).
Spy++ on the desktop, and Remote Spy on the Windows CE tools is a cool utility that gives you the...
Author: mikehall Date: 12/05/2006