After hearing about it for months, finally Windows Embedded Compact 2013 has arrived! The successor to Windows Embedded Compact 7 promises a number of improvements that I report below: General improvements related to the core; Improved performance of the file system (which in my opinion was one of the weaknesses of previous versions); Otimization of the boot which has a duration of a few seconds, possibly with a UI and a number of drivers that are already active; Built-in support for Wi-Fi, cellular and Bluetooth; Obviously, the operating system supports x86 and ARM architectures and the development environment is fully integrated with Visual Studio 2012, and is guaranteed to coexist side-by-side as an environment previously installed Visual Studio 2008 (WCE7) or Visual Studio 2005 (WCE6). In order to begin to enjoy the new features, you can download it at the following link and can be very useful to follow the two webinars by Douglas Boling on 18 and 25 June: Windows Embedded Compact 2013 i ...
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Microsoft announces general availability of Windows Embedded Compact 2013.
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CEDriverWiz V3.0 and CEComponentWiz V3.0 have both been updated for Compact 2013 RTM and release on Codeplex:
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June 25th, 2013 - Join Windows Embedded Compact Expert Doug Boling as he demystifies BSP development for Windows Embedded Compact 2013.
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June 18th, 2013 - Join Windows Embedded Compact Expert Doug Boling for this encore presentation of the new story for Application Developers in Windows Embedded Compact 2013.
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The new version of Windows Embedded Compact/CE, Compact 2013 RTM available June 13th
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How to associate file types, using their file extension, with a default application to open them in the Shell.
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New versions of CEComponentWiz, CECriverWiz and CEDRiverWizTemplates coming in June
(Around the time Compact 2013 goes RTM)
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This is the 2nd of the series of webinar for Windows Embedded Compact 2013 (formerly known as Windows CE). For this webinar, Windows Embedded expert Doug Boling talks about the new application development environment, Visual Studio 2012 Application Builder toolset…
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The Windows Embedded team mentioned in passing this week that it will be delivering a Blue update to the Windows Embedded operating system. In a May 7 blog post, the team noted: "With Windows Blue, we are furthering our platform alignment with Windows to address a growing category of devices on the edge of enterprise networks and will be bringing the update to market later this year." Right now, the Embedded team isn't share specific SKU details or any other information. (There are seve ...
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