Silverlight for Windows Embedded tutorial (step 2)

In this second tutorial we will learn how to use storyboards to create animations inside our user interface and how we can control them from code.

Silverlight for Windows Embedded tutorial

One of the most exciting new features of R3 is Silverlight for Windows Embedded.
With this technology the UI of an application can be described using XAML, an XML-based language, and can be designed using visual tools like Expression Blend.

CEStreamWiz .. First version released

We've released the first version of the Stream Driver Wizard on Codeplex. 

CEFileWiz and StreamDriverWiz .. back to the future!

I've been working on building Mike Hall's CEFileWiz and StreamDriverWiz for CE 6 and for Windows Embedded Compact 7.

Platform Builder: makeimg: FATAL ERROR: Out of buffer space

It seems that PB (CE 6 in VS 2005) doesn’t like long path names.

I’ve come across this before.

It builds OK but then fails over in makeimage as above.

C:\WINCE600\OSDesigns\LPC3250-DK_BIN  with solution file in this directory worked OK.

C:\WINCE600\3rdparty\PhyCore_LPC3250_BSP_EVAL_V1_0_3_Prerelease\OSDesigns\LPC3250-DK_BIN  fails as above

I seem to remember that spaces can cause problems too.

It seems a path length issue here.

Thanks to Bruce Eitman:

http://geekswithblogs.net/BruceEitman/archive/2009/06/17/platform-builder-makeimg-fatal-error-out-of-buffer-space.aspx

... And   Nicolas Besson seems to have blogged about the same problem jsut when I came accross it:

http://nicolasbesson.blogspot.com/2010/07/make-image-and-out-of-buffer-space.html

Windows CE 6: Networking Device Emulator on Win7

It says that you need VPC 2007 when you try to enable networking with the Arm emulator.  But Win 7 has a later VPC.
But when installed (Win 7 version) the required networking isn’t installed.

This article seems to resolve the issue:

http://www.brianpeek.com/blog/archive/2009/05/02/windows-virtual-pc-and-the-microsoft-device-emulator.aspx

Thanks Brian

Building an Image

There are plenty of example sand how-to’s on how to build a Windows CE image, download and debug it on a target: Sam’s Jumpstart Kit: <CD>/Vortex86DX_SPARK_WINCE600_JumpStart_Rev2.5.pdf <CD>/SampleCodes/OSDesign/MyWinCE_OSDesign_Project_VDX6326.zip Where the CD is the “Solution of Fault Tolerance x86 System-on-chip” as supplied with the kit   MSDN Virtual Lab: Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Platform Builder Tools   Windows CE 6 Help (Local or at MSDN) Topics: For a CEPC .. A PC as a CE device, but applies to the Spark Kit: How to Set Up a CEPC The major hardware issue is the network card. It doesn’t need a hard drive You need a boot floppy, or create a USB boot floppy(Search for HP disk key) Or you can set up a  bootable hard drive formatte ...