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Author Components and Customize Shells

5/10/2007

You can customize your run-time image by creating components for your applications and device drivers and by using or customizing a shell. Custom components include only the functionality, resources, and dependencies that you need, and they allow for a smaller, tighter, and more reliable run-time image. Custom shells give you the ability to finely tune the end-user experience.

In This Section

  • Component Help
    Describes the information to include in the HTML documentation that accompanies a component.
  • Combining Components
    Describes how to combine multiple components into one component, and when it is appropriate to do so.
  • Dividing Components
    Describes how to divide a single component into two or more separate components, and the considerations to make when doing so.
  • Author Components and Customize Shells
    Describes the componentization phase of the development process. During this phase you create components for your applications and device drivers, create custom shells, and customize existing shells.