Author Components and Customize Shells

5/10/2007

You can customize your run-time image by creating components for your applications and device drivers and by using or customizing a shell. Custom components include only the functionality, resources, and dependencies that you need, and they allow for a smaller, tighter, and more reliable run-time image. Custom shells give you the ability to finely tune the end-user experience.

In This Section

• How to Componentize an Application
  Describes the end-to-end procedure for creating a custom component for an application.

• How to Componentize a Device Driver
  Describes the end-to-end procedure for creating a custom component for a device driver.

• Determining Application Resource Usage
  Describes how to identify the resources required by your application.

• Determining Device Driver Resource Usage
  Describes how to identify the resources required by your device driver.

• Component Boundary Analysis
  Describes how to determine what functionality to include in each component.

• Component Help
  Describes the information to include in the HTML documentation that accompanies a component.

• Combining Components
  Describes how to combine multiple components into one component, and when it is appropriate to do so.

• Dividing Components
  Describes how to divide a single component into two or more separate components, and the considerations to make when doing so.

Related Sections

• Author Components and Customize Shells
  Describes the componentization phase of the development process. During this phase you create components for your applications and device drivers, create custom shells, and customize existing shells.