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Windows CE kernel and storage technologies and system tools.

TechEd Preconference for Windows CE

Microsoft TechEd just announced they'll be holding a preconference session for Windows CE on Sunday,...

Date: 02/12/2009

ESC Boston presentations available on MSDN

Some CE-related presentations from ESC Boston are now publicly available. Topics include building a...

Date: 11/18/2008

Porting Drivers to CE6 up on Channel 9

Just a quick note that a detailed presentation about driver porting in CE6 is now available on...

Date: 08/21/2008

When (Not) to Pack Structures

Posted by: Russ Keldorph In my previous post, I talked about how structure packing works. Now I’d...

Date: 06/27/2008

BSP Porting Documentation

When I was a developer, and customer, using MSDN in my day-to-day work, I occasionally found myself...

Date: 06/20/2008

Introduction: Jim Causey

I've been working as a technical author and editor since 1995. I've worked at Microsoft as a...

Date: 06/20/2008

MARSHAL_FORCE_ALIAS

Posted by: Sue Loh Hello out there, it's been a long time since I posted anything real, and I feel...

Date: 06/06/2008

Dynamic Initialization of variables

Hi, I'm Chaitanya Raje and I am a developer on Compiler and Tools team for Windows Mobile and...

Date: 06/02/2008

BSP Template now available for CE 6.0 / CE6R2

New sample code called the BSP Template is now available for download. This code serves two major...

Date: 05/30/2008

Windows CE Power Management

Nicolas Besson, one of our MVPs, posted a nice series of articles about power management in Windows...

Date: 04/30/2008

CE6 OAL: What you need to know update

For those of you that enjoyed Sue's excellent article CE6 OAL: What you need to know, the...

Date: 03/05/2008

Making parts of Windows CE Device Driver Code Non-Pageable

Posted by Wes Barcalow Following on to Sue’s previous posts describing the paging pool and memory...

Date: 02/28/2008

WES BARCALOW: INTRODUCTION

Hello! I joined Microsoft back in 2006 and have lived in the Seattle area nearly all my life. I...

Date: 02/28/2008

Good posts about Windows CE/Mobile Virtual Memory

I didn't learn about Reed & Steve's blog until today, but got there by learning about these...

Date: 02/21/2008

Paging and the Windows CE Paging Pool

Posted by: Sue Loh I’d like to explain a little more about memory management in Windows CE. I...

Date: 01/20/2008

Adding and removing KITL drivers in x86 BSPs

Overview Today I want to chat about what it takes to support a new Ethernet chip for download and...

Date: 11/02/2007

Is Platform Builder 5.0 side-by-side compatible with Platform Builder 6.0?

Doug Cook, a member of the Platform Builder team, wrote a post on this topic here:...

Date: 08/29/2007

Remote Tools Framework 1.0 Is For Real

Published by Dave Edson Last year we released a powertoy for the Remote Tools Framework. Now, with...

Date: 06/05/2007

Managing Breakpoints Programmatically

Posted by: Sankar Ramasubbu As as extension of my earlier post, I am going to show you how to...

Date: 06/01/2007

Developing applications using Windows CE SDK

Hello my Name is Nachiket Acharya and today I am going to talk about usefulness of an SDK and use it...

Date: 06/01/2007

Introduction: Nachiket Acharya

Hello my name is Nachiket Acharya. I grew up in Ahmedabad, India. I work as a Software Design...

Date: 06/01/2007

Windows CE Tools BSP bringup project: x86 emulator BSP bringup for Windows CE 6.0

(Posted By: Craig Friesen) Hi, this is Matt Johnson, Jalen He, Nachiket Acharya, Joel Clark and...

Date: 05/31/2007

Introduction: Craig Friesen

Hi, this is Craig Friesen of the Platform Builder IDE Test Team. I grew up and have spent most of my...

Date: 05/31/2007

So Long To DIM(), ARRAY_SIZE(), and...

Posted by Riki June I’ve been doing some tidy up work in the driver code, and would like to draw...

Date: 05/08/2007

Platform Builder 6.0 Service Pack 1

Posted by: Sue Loh Hello from MEDC! I have enjoyed meeting many of you in person in the last couple...

Date: 05/02/2007

Big Book of BSP Wiki

I wanted to point our readers to the new "Big Book of BSP" wiki on Channel-9. The BSP and Drivers...

Date: 05/01/2007

Windows Mobile 6.0 Advanced Exception Filtering

Posted by Javier Flores Assad During development of Windows Mobile 6.0 we realized that gaining more...

Date: 04/25/2007

How Bus Drivers Work

Posted by David Liao Abstract A bus driver is designed for controlling and configuring a specific...

Date: 04/19/2007

Introduction: David Liao

My name is David Liao. I have been working for Microsoft for about 9 years. My working range is from...

Date: 04/19/2007

Using Application Verifier on Windows Mobile drivers

Mike Thompson posted a very comprehensive article on this subject at...

Date: 04/03/2007

Run Target Control Command Programatically

Today I am going to talk about how to automate the opertaion of running target control command and...

Date: 04/03/2007

Using Platform Builder remote tools over ActiveSync

Posted by: Sue Loh This information is something I only personally discovered recently, and it has...

Date: 04/02/2007

Sharing Hardware Registers: When to replace multiple writers with a shared resource driver.

Posted by Jeremy Cooke When designing a complex system it is occasionally necessary to coordinate...

Date: 03/29/2007

Critical Section vs. Mutex

Posted by Jeremy Cooke Both critical sections and mutex objects can be used to synchronize code...

Date: 03/26/2007

Introduction: Jeremy Cooke

I'm a developer on the Windows Mobile BSP team. I came to Microsoft after graduating with a masters...

Date: 03/26/2007

Automating the Breakpoint and Stepping Operations

Posted by: Sankar Ramasubbu I am going to show you how to automate the operation of setting and...

Date: 03/24/2007

Introduction: Sankar Ramasubbu

I am a Software Design Engineer in Test at Microsoft. I started at Microsoft in September 2003 and...

Date: 03/24/2007

Debug Zones: Eliminating Excess Chatter

Posted by Riki June Last December Travis wrote an entry on Debug Zones, I’d like to follow this up...

Date: 03/15/2007

Introduction: Riki June

Gidday, I'm a dev on the Drivers team, working under Kurt Kennett. I have taken ownership of...

Date: 03/15/2007

VIEWING PROCESS AND THREAD DATA PROGRAMATICALLY

Today, I am going to talk about how to retrieve process and thread information from PB debugger....

Date: 03/14/2007

INTRODUCTION: SHILPI GAUTAM

I grew up in India and moved to USA in 2001.I graduated with a master’s degree in Electrical...

Date: 03/14/2007

Automating the Download of a Run-Time Image

Posted by: Brent Bishop So far I've shown how to automate the creation of an OS design, modify it...

Date: 03/12/2007

Understanding VirtualSetAttributes

Posted by Kurt Kennett Virtual Memory is fantastic. It allows you to create this personalized ‘view’...

Date: 03/05/2007

Windows Mobile 6 and the CE OS

Posted by: Sue Loh Now that WM6 is publicly announced, I want to start taking steps to prevent...

Date: 02/14/2007

Modifying an OS Design Programatically

Posted by: Brent Bishop As an extention of my previous post Automating the Creation of an OS Design...

Date: 02/09/2007

FATFS post on multimedia team blog

I just came across a FATFS post on the new multimedia team blog (https://blogs.msdn.com/medmedia/)...

Date: 02/08/2007

Introduction: Oguz Sinanoglu

Hi! I’m a BSP developer on the Windows CE base team here. I joined Microsoft back in May 2005, after...

Date: 02/07/2007

HAL Flat Display Driver Demystified

Posted by Oguz Sinanoglu Let’s talk about display drivers, particularly HAL Flat ones. HAL stands...

Date: 02/07/2007

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