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Imagine Cup 2009 – Embedded Competition – Day Two
Here’s a look at day two of the embedded competition at the Imagine Cup in Cairo/Egypt – This is where the judging starts – Here a view of day two, including some of the judging process. - Mike... more

Imagine Cup 2009, Egypt – Embedded Competition Day One
Imagine Cup 2009 is now complete – here’s a look at Day One from the event in Cairo Egypt. Having been involved in the Imagine Cup and Windows Embedded Student Challenge I can say that these events are amazing, the focus of the student teams is amazing, some teams stay up all night tweaking their demos to ensure everything is working for the judging panel. Here’s Day One… - Mike... more

Imagine Cup 2009 – Cairo/Egypt
The Imagine Cup 2009 competition starts in roughly two days – one part of the evnet is the Embedded Development competition – our roving reporter Olivier Bloch (see photo below) will be on-site working as a judge for the embedded competition. I expect Olivier will be blogging highlights from each day – check Olivier’s blog for more information. - Mike... more

CE 6.0 tools on 64-bit Windows
The CE 6.0 development tools are designed/tested on 32-bit Windows (Windows XP, Windows Vista) – I’ve been using the CE 6.0 development tools on 32-bit Windows 7 for some time without any issues. I recently paved my development PC (quad-core, x64, 8GB RAM, 2TB H/D) and decided to install 64-bit Windows 7. The installation process for all of the development tools (VS 2005, CE 6.0, VS 2008, VS 2010 CTP) seemed to go smoothly, but… Last week I create a new OSDesign for a CE 6.0 operating system configuration, the wizards all worked well and I ended up with a new OSDesign in the CE 6.0 tools. Th... more

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R2 Released.

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R2 is now released.

More information, and download available here

- Mike

Hosting a Silverlight 2.0 Application on CE 6.0 – Calling SOAP
Here’s some background reading before we get into the rest of the blog post. Hosting a Silverlight 2.0 XAP file on CE 6.0 Getting the Web Server host IP address in a Silverlight 2.0 application Building native code XML Web Services on CE 6.0 Here’s the cunning plan – you could imagine building a digital picture frame or other type of device that may expose a remote administration user interface through your desktop web browser. In the case of the picture frame you might want to set the RSS feed name that the frame is consuming, or if the device is on a corporate domain network t... more

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