Alphabetical List of How-to Topics (Windows CE .NET 4.2)

Alphabetical List of How-to Topics

Microsoft Windows CE .NET 4.2

Alphabetical List of How-to Topics

The following list contains links to all the how-to topics in Microsoft® Windows® CE .NET Help, organized in alphabetical order.

A

How to Add an Application to the Catalog: Explains how to add an application to the Catalog so that, in the IDE, you can easily add the application to other platforms.
How to Add a CEPC to an Ethernet Network: Explains the steps necessary to add a Windows CE–based device to an existing network.
How to Add a Device Driver to the Catalog: Explains how to add a device driver that you have built to the Catalog so that, in the IDE, you can easily add the device driver to other platforms.
How to Add a Media File to an Operating System: Explains how to include a media file in your platform.
How to Add Power Management to a Device Driver: Provides an overview of how to add power management features to device drivers.
How to Add Power Management to an OS Image: Provides an overview of how to add power management to an operating system (OS) image.

B

How to Boot an OS Image on a CEPC from a Hard Disk Drive: Explains how to configure a Windows CE PC-based hardware development platform (CEPC) so that it boots from a hard disk drive instead of from a boot floppy disk.
How to Bring Up a Device by Cloning a BSP: Describes the steps involved in bringing up your device by cloning an existing board support package (BSP) using Microsoft Platform Builder.
How to Bring Up a Device by Creating a New BSP: Describes from the beginning the major steps in the process of developing the platform code necessary to initialize a new platform on your target device.
How to Build a Multilingual Platform Using MUI: Describes how to create a Windows CE–based platform that supports multiple languages using the Multilingual User Interface (MUI)

C

How to Check the Dependencies of a Feature: Describes how to determine upon which components an OS feature is dependent.
How to Configure a CEPC to Download an OS Image: Explains how to preconfigure CEPC hardware so that a Windows CE–based platform can be downloaded to and run on the CEPC.
How to Configure a FAT File System: Explains steps about how to include transaction safety by enabling TFAT and other FATFS customization options.
How to Configure a Platform to Support a Flash Media Device: Includes steps about how to develop a flash media driver and configure the Platform.reg file for your platform to support a flash media device.
How to Configure a Hard Disk Drive on a CEPC: Describes how to configure a hard disk drive and an OS image to enable storage on a CEPC.
How to Configure and Build an OS Image for a CEPC: Details how to configure your Windows CE–based platform to facilitate downloading to a target device.
How to Configure the Registry to Run an Application at Startup: Describes how to configure the registry for a Windows CE-based platform so that when it is downloaded to a target device, an application will automatically run at startup.
How to Configure the Web Server: Describes how to enable and set up the default Web server on your Windows CE–based platform.
How to Connect to a Device for Debugging: Explains how to debug a Windows CE–based platform on a target device using the debugging tools available in Platform Builder.
How to Create a Board Support Package: Explains from the beginning the major steps in the process of creating a BSP.
How to Create a Device Driver: Describes from the beginning the steps necessary to create a Windows CE–based device driver.
How to Create a Digital Media Receiver: Describes how to set up and implement the preconfigured Digital Media Appliance platform that is available in Platform Builder.
How to Create an Enterprise Terminal: Describes how to set up and implement the preconfigured Enterprise Terminal platform that is available in Platform Builder.
How to Create an Enterprise Web Pad: Describes how to set up and implement the preconfigured Enterprise Web Pad platform that is available in Platform Builder.
How to Create a Gateway: Describes how to set up and implement the preconfigured Gateway platform that is available in Platform Builder.
How to Create an Image with Multiple XIP Regions: Describes how to enable multiple execute in place (XIP) regions in a single run-time OS image and create discrete, upgradeable units in ROM.
How to Create an Industrial Controller: Describes how to set up and implement the preconfigured Industrial Controller platform that is available in Platform Builder.
How to Create an Internet Appliance: Describes how to set up and implement the preconfigured Internet Appliance platform that is available in Platform Builder.
How to Create an IP Phone on a CEPC: Describes how to set up and implement the preconfigured Internet Protocol (IP) Phone platform that is available in Platform Builder.
How to Create an IP Phone on an Emulator: Describes how to set up and implement the preconfigured IP Phone platform that is available in Platform Builder.
How to Create a Mobile Handheld: Describes how to set up and implement the preconfigured Mobile Handheld platform that is available in Platform Builder.
How to Create a Mobile Phone: Describes how to set up and implement the preconfigured Mobile Phone platform that is available in Platform Builder.
How to Create an SDK for a Custom Platform: Describes how to create for distribution a software development kit (SDK) for your custom Windows CE–based platform.
How to Create a Set-Top Box: Describes how to set up and implement the preconfigured Set-Top Box platform that is available in Platform Builder.
How to Create a Tiny Kernel-based Platform: Describes how to set up and implement the preconfigured Tiny Kernel–based platform that is available in Platform Builder.
How to Create a Windows CE .NET-based Platform: Describes how to bring up a Windows CE–based platform on a unique target device.
How to Create a Windows Thin Client Platform: Describes how to set up and implement the preconfigured Windows Thin Client platform that is available in Platform Builder.
How to Customize Memory on a CEPC: Explains how to edit OEMAddressTable to take advantage of the amount of RAM on an x86 target device.
How to Customize the Appearance of Common Controls: Describes how to copy and modify the public source code that controls the graphical presentation of common controls using the Platform Builder IDE.
How to Customize the Shell: Describes the steps required to modify the appearance and functionality of the Windows CE user interface (UI).

D

How to Debug a Device Driver: Describes the process for using Platform Builder debugging tools to debug a Windows CE–based device driver.
How to Debug an OS Image on a CEPC: Describes the steps for connecting to and debugging a Windows CE–based platform running on a CEPC.
How to Decide Whether to Use GPE in a Display Driver: Describes the benefits and limitations of using the Graphics Primitive Engine (GPE) classes in a display driver.
How to Decrease Run-Time Image Size on a CEPC: Describes how to decrease your OS image size to conform to the memory requirements of your target device.
How to Develop a Boot Loader: Describes from the beginning the process for creating a boot loader for a unique target device.
How to Develop a File System Filter: Includes steps about how to create and customize a file system filter for a platform.
How to Develop a Flash Media Driver: Includes steps about how to create and customize and debug a flash media driver.
How to Develop an Application for a CEPC: Describes from the beginning the process for creating a custom application that runs on a CEPC.
How to Develop a Connectionless NDIS Miniport Driver: Describes how to develop an NDIS miniport driver using the NDIS wrapper and the NDIS miniport driver samples provided with Platform Builder.
How to Develop an OEM Adaptation Layer: Describes from the beginning the process for creating an OEM adaptation layer (OAL) that interacts with custom device hardware.
How to Duplicate a Public Directory as a Platform Directory: Details how to duplicate a portion of the Public tree in your target platform directory, which then gives you the ability to modify the source code and leave the original dependency tree untouched.

E

How to Edit .cec Files Using a Text Editor: Explains how to use a text editor to create a Catalog Feature (.cec) file for a feature and then add it to the Platform Builder Catalog.
How to Enroll for a Certificate Using the Default Configuration: Details the steps necessary to enroll for a certificate from a Microsoft Windows 2000 Certificate Server using the default Web Pad-based platform on a CEPC.
How to Enroll for a Certificate Using the Modified Configuration: Details the steps necessary to enroll for a certificate from a Windows 2000 Certificate Server using a modified Web Pad-based platform on a CEPC.

I

How to Implement BinFS: Includes steps about how to develop and customize a boot loader to support BinFS.
How to Implement ClearType: Provides the steps necessary to implement Microsoft ClearType® on a Windows CE .NET 4.2-based platform or application.
How to Implement a Control Panel Application: Shows how to create a dynamically linked library (DLL) that interacts with the Control Panel infrastructure to expose an application in the Control Panel.
How to Implement Screen Rotation: Provides the steps necessary to rotate the screen on a Windows CE .NET 4.2-based platform.

M

How to Migrate a Board Support Package to Windows CE .NET 4.2: Provides information about how to migrate or update an existing BSP to be fully compatible with the features in Windows CE .NET 4.2.
How to Migrate a Keyboard Driver to Conform to the Layout Manager Interface: Describes how to migrate a keyboard driver from a Windows CE .NET 4.1 or earlier platform to the Windows CE .NET 4.2–based platform so that the driver conforms to the Layout Manager interface.
How to Migrate a Keyboard Driver Without Conforming to the Layout Manager Interface: Describes how to migrate a keyboard driver from a Windows CE .NET 4.1 or earlier platform to the Windows CE .NET 4.2–based platform without conforming to the Layout Manager interface.
How to Migrate a Windows-based Desktop NDIS Miniport Driver to Windows CE: Includes explanations about Windows CE NDIS support and the NDIS wrapper.

P

How to Profile and Optimize a Display Driver: Provides an example of using general Monte Carlo profiling techniques as well as the dedicated driver-profiling tool DispPerf.exe to gather and analyze data on the performance of the FLAT display driver. It then shows how to implement a specific change in the driver code to improve performance for a particular scenario.

R

How to Replace the Network UI for a Target Device: Describes how to change a string within the existing network UI, or create an application that replaces the entire network UI.

S

How to Set Up a CEPC: Describes how to set up a Windows CE PC-based hardware development platform (CEPC) on which you can develop and test a Windows CE–based platform.
How to Set Up an 802.1x Network and Connect to It with a CEPC: Describes how to create a test lab for developing applications using an 802.1x–based wireless network.
How to Set Up and Use an IPv6 Test Lab: Describes how to create a test lab for developing applications based on IPv6 or when porting existing IPv4 applications to IPv6.
How to Set Up a Wireless Network with a Security Infrastructure: Describes how to set up a wireless network with a security infrastructure using Windows Server 2003, and connect to it with a CEPC.
How to Support Multiple Screens on a Device: Describes how to configure a Windows CE–based platform to use multiple identical display adapters, so you can create a single continuous desktop spanning all the displays on your device.

U

How to Use Remote Call Profiler to Find Performance Problems: Describes how to use the Remote Call Profiler tool to profile an application and then display the collected data.
How to Use Remote Performance Monitor to Observe Performance: Describes how to use the Remote Performance Monitor tool to display statistics that show the performance of a target device.
How to Use the BSP for the AMD DBAu1500 Development Board: Describes how to set up and use the BSP for the AMD DBAu1500 Development Board.
How to Use the BSP for the ARM Integrator AP SDB: Describes how to set up and use the BSP for the ARM Integrator AP standard development board (SDB).
How to Use the BSP for the Hitachi US7729 HARP (Keywest) SDB: Describes how to set up and use the BSP for the Hitachi US7729 HARP (Keywest) SDB.
How to Use the BSP for the Hitachi US7750 HARP (Aspen) SDB: Describes how to set up and use the BSP for the Hitachi US7750 HARP (Aspen) SDB.
How to Use the BSP for the Intel XScale DBPXA250 Development Platform: Describes how to set up and use the BSP for the Intel XScale DBPXA250 Development Platform.
How to Use the BSP for the NEC DDB-Vr4122 (Eagle) SDB: Describes how to set up and use the BSP for the NEC DDB-Vr4122 (Eagle) SDB.
How to Use the BSP for the NEC Solution Gear 2 Series Development Kit: Describes how to set up and use the BSP for the NEC Solution Gear 2 Series Development Kit.
How to Use the BSP for the SMDK2410 Samsung MCU Development Kit: Describes how to set up and use the BSP for the SMDK2410 Samsung MCU Development Kit.
How to Use the CETK to Test a Driver: Describes how to use the Windows CE .NET Test Kit (CETK) to test a Windows CE–based device driver.
How to Use the Command Line to Create, Customize, and Build a Platform: Describes how to use command-line tools provided with Platform Builder to create, customize, and build a run-time image that you can download to a target device.
How to Use the IDE to Create, Customize, and Build a Platform: Describes how to use the Platform Builder IDE to create, customize, and build a run-time image that you can download to a target device.
How to Use the IP Phone to Call Windows Messenger: Describes how to use the preconfigured IP Phone platform that is available in Platform Builder to call a Windows XP Messenger client.
How to Use Platform Builder to Connect to Multiple Devices: Describes how you can connect to multiple Windows CE–based devices from a single development workstation.

Last updated on Wednesday, April 14, 2004