Today I have seen a Microsoft webcast held by Douglas Boling, author of numerous books on Windows CE, and the main topic of the new Windows Embedded Compact 2013, to be released on the market is imminent. There are a lot of news, especially in terms of performance of the operating system and available development tools. The basis of the system will be Windows CE 8 that has inherited the best of Windows Phone 8 and as always will be "modular" through his extensive catalog. The improvement in performance is closely linked to the file system that guarantees an increase in the speed of loading applications and a reduced read access time. In addition, it has been introduced its "snapshot boot" that guarantees a boot time very low in the case of cold start. As far as the development environment, Platform Builder 2013 "hosted" in Visual Studio 2012 with all the improvements arising therefrom; is interesting to observe that it is possible a side-by-side installation with Platform Builder 7. The development of nat ...

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Windows Embedded Compact expert Doug Boling will present a technical overview and share what is in the next version of Windows Embedded Compact (Formerly known as Windows CE).

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I’m now using CEloader since a year and I have a collection of binary files in my CEloader folder… time for some automation !!

In order to be able to script the tool - in BAT files for example - I added the name of the BIN to be downloaded as first argument. The target ID is now moved as the second argument.

No argument parsing (yet), if you want to filter on a target name you need to give the image file name first (it may be NK.bin).

The update (binary and source code) is on the celoader project on codeplex.

I have just posted a new little CodePlex project: M2Mqtt.

It is a MQTT client (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) that can be used on all .Net platforms, obviously focused on. NET Micro Framework.

MQTT is a protocol for M2M (Machine to Machine) as part of the Internet of Things and for which lately has been a process of standardization by OASIS. Suffice it to say that thanks to his remarkable "lightness", was chosen as the protocol for the exchange of messages through the Facebook Messenger.

For further information please refer to the official website MQTT but I will not fail to publish as soon as possible a series of articles related to this protocol and to the use of the library that I just released.

I recommend .... stay tuned!

This is a major update.
Lots of new you beaut features.

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