A typical environment to support Compact 2013 device development involves the following:

·         Hardware design

·         Firmware/BIOS

·         Operating system

·         Device driver and hardware adaptation code

·         Bootloader

·         Application and related software components

To cover technical details and how-to for each of the above subjects in depth can expand into a full length book.  This book is not intended to cover general development, design and programming principle.

The main objective for this book is to provide sufficient information to help you, the reader, to better understand the Windows Embedded Compact development enviornment and provide useful information and resources to help you learn and engage in Compact 2013 development quickly, avoiding unecessary pitfalls from incorrect and outdated informtion.

The following subjects are covered in this book:

·         Compact 2013 development environment and tools

·         Develop, configure, build customized OS runtime image and download to target device

·         Develop application for Compact 2013 device using C/C++, C#, Visual Basic and XAML

·         Connectivity to download application to Compact 2013 device and debugging

·         Introduction to bootloader, board support package (BSP) and Original Equipment Manufacture (OEM) adaptation layer code (OAL)

·         Introduction to device driver development for Compact 2013

·         Debug and Remote Tools for Compact 2013

·         Codeplex community resources for Compact 2013

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