In this post we'll see step-by-step how to install Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry.

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After waiting for months to watch this post on the blog of .Net Micro Framework team …. finally 4.3 QFE1 version is officially released ! It's been over a year since the last release of the 4.3 RTM version, but I hope that with the advent of the Internet of Things, Microsoft will support better this product that has huge growth potential. Compared to RTM, these are the bug fixes: Work Item: 1874 - Interop compilation fail for project name with dot ('.') Work Item: 509 - Add BitConverter Work Item: 1951 - StringBuilder.Replace Exception Work Item: 2012 - StringBuilder.Replace previous bug resurfaced again Work Item: 1784 - Array.BinarySearch() not accepting null comparer Work Item: 1855 - SDK Installer for 4.3 shows incorrect error message Work Item: 1400 - URI parsing fails when :XX sequence appears and no explicit port is used Work Item: 1738 - var uri = new Uri( ...

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The 2014 Microsoft Embedded Conference is the 2nd annual event hosted by DotNetCampania.  The theme for this year’s event is focusing on Internet of Things and M2M related subjects.

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Today, preparing a Windows Embedded Compact 2013 image for an eBox 3310A and for the demo at Microsoft Embedded Conference in February 2014, the Windows 7 operating system (a virtual machine) decides to upgrade the version of .Net Framework from 4.5 to 4.5.1. Reboot the system and resume the job ... but the build system for Visual Studio 2012 has gone mad and the next attempt to build fails! A warning indicates that the .Net Framework 4.5 is not installed on the system and an obvious fatal error indicates that the compilation can not be done! I have found no official news from Microsoft to fix this problem but I have circumvented the problem in the following way .... First I open the file indicated by the fatal error, ie sources.ce in the path C: \ WINCE800 \ public \ common \ oak \ misc, which reports the error in case the environment variable _DOTNET40ROOT  is empty. !IF "$(_DOTNET40ROOT)" == "" !   ERROR Error: Microsoft.NET Framework v4.x must be installed on your machine. ...

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I follow constantly the post on the official .Net Micro Framework blog  to read the news about the release of version 4.3 QFE1 (currently on RTM).

A few days ago there was an update of Philip Lo (which is part of the team along with the author of the post ShiZhe Jiang), which speaks of a "legal team" that is blocking the release on CodePlex since December 2013 .... I wonder why !

Following what Philip Lo said ...

For the .NET MF 4.3 QFE 1 release, I'm wrestling with our legal team to get this update approved for publishing on Codeplex since early December. Seems legal is shuffling people around, and new faces with no history of past .NET MF releases is causing hiccups. Needless to say I'm trying other avenues to jog legal's memory of past releases to get this update approved.

Also this time we just have to wait, hoping that it won’t be a new update on the blog but the official release on CodePlex!

How to dynamically change the background when using Compact13Tools.

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Quoting the words of Greg Duncan, I’m a "friend of the blog"!

The weekly Friday post on Coding4Fun blog on Channel9 refers to my article on the SPI bus and its use with the .NET Micro Framework (on Netduino board).

It 'a pleasure to be there !

After the previous two articles describing the SPI and I2C buses and their use with the .Net Micro Framework, it is now finally time to see a practical application with my latest project available on CodePlex : uNFC – NFC library for .Net platforms ! Introduction : software and hardware support This library allows to use NFC integrated circuit connected to your PC (via serial) or to embedded system based on Windows Embedded Compact or .Net Micro Framework. It supports all three types of .Net Framework : .Net Framework 4.0 for PC based on Windows 7 / 8 or embedded systems based on Windows Embedded Standard 7 and Windows Embedded 8 Standard; .Net Compact Framework 3.5 / 3.9 for embedded systems based on Windows Embedded Compact 7 and Windows Embedded Compact 2013; .Net Micro Framework 4.2 and 4.3 for embedded systems like Netduino boards and .Net Gadgeteed boards; The library supports NXP PN532 chip but it also defines a little framework so that y ...

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At the same as SPI, analyzed in a previous article, the I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit) is a synchronous communication bus used to connect and exchange data between a microprocessor and external devices; it was developed by Philips, now NXP, today it is "de facto" standard. Bus description The I2C bus is also known as two-wire as it is characterized in all the effects of only two "wires": SDA (Serial Data Line) : line for the data transfer; SCL (Serial CLock) : clock for data exchange; The lines abovelines  are always characterized by a pull-up resistor that has the task of maintaining the signal "high" (logic 1) in conditions of idle while the interconnected components (master and slave) have the task of lowering the level to transfer a logic 0 and release it to bring it back to idle and transfer a logic 1, this behavior is typical of the open-drain lines. Similarly to SPI, you can have multiple slaves connected to the bus and a single master to communicate wit ...

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https://compact2013tools.codeplex.com/

A key change is that TaskManager now runs on ARM.

Lots of major changes.

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