The upgrade, renamed from CMI Explorer to "Console Application for Windows XP Embedded", or "XPeCon" for short, supports a number of common development tasks such as creating and editing configurations, building a runtime, editing component properties, and looking up components in the database. Kellner says that XPeCon also allows a developer to import components into the database, research component relationships through the DEPTREE and DEPTRACE commands, and dump the contents of SLD files in a folder.

Additional details on XPeCon are available from a document on the FTP2007 Download Site, "XPeCon_How_To.doc." Kellner's blog post shows a sample script file that can be run under XPeCon.

Read Kellner's complete blog post here.

Further details on the Windows XP Embedded Feature Pack 2007 CTP are available here.

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