barrybo
Infrequent and rambling posts about DeviceEmulator and other things important in my life
MSR Accelerator - the new CTP is out
Accelerator is a high-level data parallel library which uses parallel processors such as the GPU or...
Date: 06/28/2010
MSR Accelerator v2 preview build is ready
Visit https://connect.microsoft.com/acceleratorv2 to download the preview build and documentation....
Date: 11/16/2009
Second edition of Shared Source CLI Essentials is coming!
Great news! Joel Pobar and Ted Neward have been working on a new edition of the Shared Source CLI...
Date: 08/21/2008
BarryBo and high-end PC video games?!?!!
My "hush-hush" project is finally opening up a little! After delving deep into the world of mobile...
Date: 11/07/2007
Notification LED in the DeviceEmulator V2.0 - How to customize the LED with a skin
DeviceEmulator 2.0 adds several new peripheral devices, including notification LED and vibrate. If...
Date: 07/31/2007
Come work with BarryBo on whatever-it-is-that-I-work-on
Back in October, I left the DeviceEmulator team for a new position in Microsoft Research. The...
Date: 07/27/2007
eXDI hardware debugging support in DeviceEmulator
Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Platform Builder 6.0 SP1 is now available at...
Date: 05/03/2007
Accelerator project - compiling data-parallel programs to graphics processor units (GPUs) and multiprocessors
Back in October, I said farewell to the DeviceEmulator, and joined a new project in Microsoft...
Date: 04/02/2007
Localized DeviceEmulator 2.0 executables
The DeviceEmulator team has just released DeviceEmulator 2.0 in all languages that Visual Studio...
Date: 03/20/2007
Device Emulator V2 standalone
Anand just posted that Device Emulator V2 is now available as a standalone download...
Date: 03/12/2007
Office OneNote - one of the best code development tools around
I use a pretty extensive suite of tools as a developer - two IDEs, debuggers, code analysis tools,...
Date: 12/06/2006
BarryBo Says Farewell to the DeviceEmulator
Device Emulator V2.0 is finished, and RTMs along with Windows CE 6.0. It's going to be a great...
Date: 10/09/2006
BarryBo on Channel9
My Channel9 video is up! https://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=224510. It's a talk about...
Date: 08/28/2006
What's the smallest Windows CE 5.0 configuration that you can target from Visual Studio 2005?
Very small! The DeviceEmulator nk.bin can be as small as 1.3mb! With that 1.3mb OS image, you can...
Date: 08/21/2006
DeviceEmulator and Virtual Switch inside VirtualPC/VirtualServer
One of the great things about the DeviceEmulator is that it runs inside VirtualPC and VirtualServer....
Date: 08/09/2006
Shared Source Device Emulator 1.0 has been released
Get it here:...
Date: 07/17/2006
Adapt Your App - emulators, guidance, and tools to help keep your apps runniing on the latest device displays
The Adapt Your App Site (https://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/windowsmobile/howto/AdaptYourApp) is a...
Date: 06/13/2006
Nicer looking demos in the DeviceEmulator with ClearType and Zoom2x
Three quick things can make demos on the DeviceEmulator look much nicer: Enable ClearType. Go to...
Date: 06/13/2006
DeviceEmulator V2 - how did we get a 40% improvement in performance?
The DeviceEmulator V2 is significantly faster than the V1 emulator you're used to. Most of the...
Date: 05/23/2006
GPS and the DeviceEmulator, Part 2 - Using GPS receiver hardware from the emulator
Using GPS receiver hardware from inside the DeviceEmulator is actually more straightforward than...
Date: 05/22/2006
GPS and the DeviceEmulator, Part 1 - emulated GPS without a GPS receiver
Have you ever wanted to run a GPS-aware application inside the DeviceEmulator, without using a...
Date: 05/19/2006
Windows Mobile 5.0 MSFP operating system images for the Device Emulator
Great news! You can now download Windows Mobile 5.0 Messaging and Security Feature Pack OS images...
Date: 05/19/2006
Device Emulator 1.0 Standalone is now available for download
If you do not have Visual Studio 2005 installed, but have Device Emulator OS images you want to try,...
Date: 05/19/2006
Now available: Device Emulator 2.0 Community Tech. Preview
The DeviceEmulator 2.0 Community Tech. Preview just went live, at...
Date: 04/24/2006
BarryBo at MEDC2006
I'm delighted to be presenting a new talk on the Device Emulator at MEDC2006...
Date: 04/19/2006
Using the DeviceEmulator ARMV4I BSP for Windows CE 5.0 from Platform Builder
If you have downloaded the BSP from...
Date: 03/15/2006
Device Emulator BSP for Windows CE 5.0 is available for download
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=474b03a6-e87d-455d-bc16-b8cf18ef39b4&di...
Date: 02/28/2006
Source code to my "Building an ARM Emulator" WE-DIG talk
I did a talk at the WE-DIG in January, on basics of constructing an emulator in C++. MikeHall's blog...
Date: 02/17/2006
Simulating GPS data on the DeviceEmulator or a Windows Mobile 5.0 device
This MSDN article,...
Date: 12/03/2005
DeviceEmulator and virtual battery
I'm looking at implementing a virtual battery in the next DeviceEmulator release. How much control...
Date: 12/01/2005
Detecting whether your application is running on the DeviceEmulator or not
The best way for apps to detect if they are running on the Device Emulator is to use this snippet of...
Date: 11/04/2005
PDC 2005 DeviceEmulator talk is now online
Michael Swanson has announced via his blog...
Date: 10/31/2005
Fake phone calls in the DeviceEmulator (PDC 2005 followup)
After our talk on the Device Emulator, a number of people asked me about the phone numbers I used in...
Date: 09/16/2005
SaveState Files and "Error: The current VMID is in use. Wait for the other application to exit."
If you launch the emulator by hand with savestates enabled (ie. "DeviceEmulator.exe nk.bin /s...
Date: 08/31/2005
Naming and Identifying DeviceEmulator Virtual Machines
If you launch the DeviceEmulator by hand, those instances show up in the Device Emulator Manager in...
Date: 08/31/2005
BarryBo returns to the DeviceEmulator
After spending the past several months helping revamp the way Developer Division authors our...
Date: 08/31/2005