Windows Embedded Blog
A look at Embedded and other Cool Stuff.
What are you wearing to the office today?
While waiting to get my morning Vanilla Latte (Grande, obviously), I noticed Randy Ramig from the...
Author: mikehall Date: 01/11/2008
Windows CE 6.0: What "How To" articles would you like to see written?
Have you been developing BSPs, creating new operating system images, testing or debugging operating...
Author: mikehall Date: 11/27/2007
On10: Interview with Scott Davis: A look behind Windows Embedded.
This week the Windows Embedded group released Windows Embedded CE 6.0 - In this On10 interview Scott...
Author: mikehall Date: 11/19/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Shipped! (What does that mean for Embedded?)
Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 (and the .NET Compact Framework 3.5) has shipped -...
Author: mikehall Date: 11/19/2007
Seattle Robotics Society meeting - Robotics Studio, R2D2, and Odd car.
On Saturday I attended the Seattle Robotics Society meeting - this months meeting had Joseph...
Author: mikehall Date: 11/19/2007
WSDAPI application crash on Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008
Dan Driscoll has posted an article on his blog that might be interesting for any of you that have...
Author: mikehall Date: 11/16/2007
Microsoft Robotics Studio @ Seattle Robotics Society (Nov 17th)
If you are in the Seattle area on November 17th and are interested in finding out more about...
Author: mikehall Date: 11/16/2007
CE 6.0 R2 Launch event - Coffee, Breakfast (Donuts!), and Video!
The "Live" CE 6.0 R2 launch event is happening later today at Embedded Technology, Japan - since...
Author: mikehall Date: 11/15/2007
CE 6.0 for Hobbyists
Today, Kevin Dallas (General Manager for the Windows Embedded Business at Microsoft) announced the...
Author: mikehall Date: 11/15/2007
CE 6.0 R2 Launch Preparations in Yokohama/Japan.
The CE 6.0 R2 launch webcast is starting in about 20 minutes! (and will be available to view after...
Author: mikehall Date: 11/15/2007
On10: The unseen Microsoft.
On10.net have just posted a video about embedded systems at Microsoft, here's a link to the video....
Author: mikehall Date: 11/14/2007
Channel 9 Screencast: Using Microsoft Robotics Studio with Windows Mobile.
Olivier Bloch, an Embedded Developer Evangelist based in France recently delivered a session at...
Author: mikehall Date: 11/13/2007
CE 6.0 R2 - Launch event and keynote video
On Thursday November 15th at 9am (Pacific time) an update to CE 6.0 will be launched. The update,...
Author: mikehall Date: 11/13/2007
OpenNETCF: ASP.NET for Windows CE 5.0 and Windows CE 6.0
Those amazing OpenNETCF guys have done it again! - I've seen a number of requests for ASP.NET...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/29/2007
Podcast: Reflect Systems, using Embedded O/S and WPF for Digital Signage
Reflect Systems have recorded a Podcast that talks about their use of Microsoft technologies in the...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/12/2007
ECNMag - DotNet, Embedded Development for the Rest of Us!
John Leier from Digi International has written an article for ECNMag.com that discusses the use of...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/12/2007
ESC Boston Keynote Transcript available.
Kevin Dallas, General Manager of the Windows Embedded Business at Microsoft delivered one of the...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/12/2007
CE 6.0 R2 Launch Event Nov 15th - Live on your Desktop PC.
The CE 6.0 R2 (Release 2 - you can think of this as being like a Feature Pack) launch event is...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/12/2007
.NET Micro Framework blog
The .NET Micro Framework team now have an MSDN Blog up and running - The NETMF Newsgroup is a great...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/11/2007
Write the code, or define the contract?
I just posted an article which walks through the steps of creating an XML Web Service for CE 6.0 in...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/11/2007
Building XML Web Services for Windows Embedded CE 6.0
Building XML Web Services for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Back in 2002 I wrote an article for MSDN that...
Author: mikehall Date: 10/10/2007
NXP announces support for .NET Micro Framework.
Interesting news item from NXP - NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, and...
Author: mikehall Date: 09/26/2007
Embedded Systems East: Keynote Demos - Distributed Embedded Systems and Web Services on Devices
Kevin Dallas, the General Manager of the Windows Embedded Business delivered one of the keynotes at...
Author: mikehall Date: 09/25/2007
Machine Translation Blog up and running...
The Windows Live Translator service is up and running - this service uses Machine Translation...
Author: mikehall Date: 09/24/2007
Do you have suggestions for making Windows Mobile better?
The Windows Mobile team have setup a Suggestions Box forum for you to share your thoughts on how to...
Author: mikehall Date: 09/19/2007
Micro Framework Invaders...
Back in Feb this year I was presenting at TechDays in Paris/France with Olivier Bloch and Dave Baker...
Author: mikehall Date: 09/19/2007
SJJ Micro: Low Cost Embedded Development Kit (EDK) for the .NET Micro Framework
Sean Liming and team over at SJJ Micro have been busy working on a low cost .NET Micro Framework...
Author: mikehall Date: 09/19/2007
Crop dusting Embedded Systems East!
Its Embedded Systems East this week in Sunny old Boston - On Thursday September 20th we're running a...
Author: mikehall Date: 09/18/2007
Book: Programming Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Developer Reference
Doug Boling has been hard at work on the next release of the ever popular Programming Windows CE...
Author: mikehall Date: 09/17/2007
Microsoft Sessions at ESC Boston - Sept 18-20, Boston.
Microsoft is heading to ESC Boston (September 18-20), Kevin Dallas, General Manager for the Windows...
Author: mikehall Date: 09/07/2007
Explicit Parallelism: Message-Passing programming
There's an interesting article posted up on Embedded.com titled "Explicit Parallelism:...
Author: mikehall Date: 09/07/2007
Managed Web Services running on Windows CE and Windows Mobile ?
If you're a desktop developer you are probably very familiar with both building and consuming XML...
Author: mikehall Date: 09/07/2007
OpenNETCF Community - Open for business...
This is pretty awesome, those amazing OpenNETCF folks have just launched a new community page on the...
Author: mikehall Date: 09/07/2007
Windows CE: Academic Training Materials Available.
Found this on the Academic Care Blog - Windows CE 6.0 Academic Training material has been created by...
Author: mikehall Date: 09/07/2007
Here's how Microsoft Robotics Studio is getting used...
About a week ago we had an interesting presentation at Microsoft Research given by Rod Grupen from...
Author: mikehall Date: 08/28/2007
Question: How do you do UI development on Windows CE ?
Windows CE supports an extremely diverse set of embedded devices, ranging from the obvious, and well...
Author: mikehall Date: 08/21/2007
Which Transformer are you?
I've just taken the Transformers quiz and it turns out I'm 79% Jazz! (I wonder what the other 21%...
Author: mikehall Date: 08/16/2007
Surviving LinuxWorld (again!)
It's interesting to see that when Linux developers hear the word "Microsoft" they immediately think...
Author: mikehall Date: 08/10/2007
At LinuxWorld!
I'm sat at Jillians, a bar just around the corner from LinuxWorld - we open at 6pm for food and...
Author: mikehall Date: 08/08/2007
MEDC Keynote Consumer Video (NETMF, Windows CE, XPE, Vista - and WSD)
If you attended any of the MEDC International events you would have seen the "Consumer Experience"...
Author: mikehall Date: 08/08/2007
Video: CE 6.0 SP1 Tools - CEDebugX
Building an embedded operating system image is only part of the process for releasing a final...
Author: mikehall Date: 08/02/2007
Microsoft lures Linux Hackers
At next weeks LinuxWorld event the Microsoft Windows Embedded team will be hosting another free...
Author: mikehall Date: 08/02/2007
Some background on this years Imagine Cup, Embedded Competition
Earlier this week Kevin Morris from Embedded Technology Journal interviewed two teams that are...
Author: mikehall Date: 08/01/2007
NxtGenUG have lost it! (and I know where it is!!)
The guys at the NxtGenUG are heading to TechEd Europe/Barcelona (5-9 November 2007), and they appear...
Author: mikehall Date: 07/31/2007
It's Loke's Birthday! - Many happy 0x0D !!
Today is Loke's birthday, so why not head over to his blog and wish him many happy 0x0D! - Mike
Author: mikehall Date: 07/27/2007
The Windows Embedded team is hiring!
Go check out two blog posts on the Windows XP Embedded blog - they are looking for developers and...
Author: mikehall Date: 07/27/2007
Windows XP Embedded - Adding extra resources in Target Designer.
Lynda Allen from the Windows XP Embedded team has created a Video Podcast (or screencast if you...
Author: mikehall Date: 07/27/2007
Adding Applications to the Windows CE Start Menu
The standard shell for Windows CE looks somewhat similar to Windows 95/Windows 2000 with the Start...
Author: mikehall Date: 07/26/2007
Channel 9 Video: Microsoft Robotics Studio, Distributed and RESTful programming.
Join Henrik Frystyk Nielsen from the Microsoft Robotics Studio team for a look at distributed and...
Author: mikehall Date: 07/25/2007