Break out the popcorn, sit back, relax, and enjoy the following videos, which are located in the MSDN "Channel 9" area:
- Whats New in the Windows CE 6 Beta Platform Builder Tools -- Jonathan Lyons, program manager on the CE 6.0 Platform Builder IDE Team walks through the process of bringing up an OS design for a device, adding an application, and customizing the application using the new Platform Builder Tools in Visual Studio 2005. This is a 2-parter with Part 2 here.
- Driver Development and Much More With Mike Calligaro -- In addition to discussing Windows CE device drivers, Calligaro reminices about his 13-year career at Microsoft including work on the Sega Dreamcast, an early attempt at video-on-demand.
- Understanding the Primary OEM Performance Tools -- Sue Loh, Software Design Engineer on the Platform Builder Remote Tools Team, discusses the two most important performance tools for Windows CE OEMs -- the kernel profiler and CeLog / Remote Kernel Tracker. Some familiarity with the tools is assumed as the discussion focuses on the relationship between the two.
- Collecting Thread Data Without Remote Kernel Tracker -- Sue Loh shows how to collect CeLog threading data without a connection to Remote Kernel Tracker. This is a core method for collecting performance data on a standalone device. She also shows how to look at the data using a command-line parsing tool, readlog.
- Analyzing Physical and Virtual Memory Usage Using Control Window Commands -- Sue Loh again, this time demonstrating how to look at virtual and physical memory usage on a device using control window commands. Loh uses the Target Control Window to examine memory usage, and explains how to read memory dumps.
- Application Compatibility -- Migrating Windows CE 5.0 Application to Windows Embedded CE 6.0 -- Senior Technical Product Manager Mike Hall demonstrates the new Application Compatibility Tool. The CEAppCompat Tool reads executables and device drivers, and provides HTML results showing which called APIs are no longer supported in CE 6.0, APIs that are only supported in the kernel, and APIs that may not be supported in the future.
- Managed Application development for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 -- Mike Hall demonstrates how to configure a baseline CE 6.0 operating system (OS) image and then add the components needed to support a managed application within Visual Studio 2005 as the application development tool. Hall shows how to get an IP address and then configure Visual Studio 2005 to deploy an application to the running OS image.
Oh, and when you're finished with the above new videos, be sure to check out the long list of other Windows CE viewing -- and reading -- material, in the "Related Stories" below.
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