Previously known as 'Windows CE', Microsoft changed the naming of the operating system starting with version 7.0.
Questions tagged [windows-embedded-compact]
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Developing applications for Windows Embedded Compact 2013
Today I stumbled over the Application Builder for CE 2013 in Microsoft's download center. As of the description, with this pack I should be able to develop apps that target Windows Embedded Compact 2013 with Visual Studio 2012.
After downloading and…
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Web Browser support Windows Embedded vs Windows CE vs Windows Mobile?
I am developing a web based inventory solution for a client and there will be handheld mobile computers involved. I've never developed a web app that has been run on a browser on one of these devices. The devices we are looking at have one of the…
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How to sign executables for execution on WEC2013
For a WEC2013 platform with enabled security loader I have created a self-signed certificate. The cert has the attributes
Key Usage: Digital Signature (80)
Enhanced Key Usage: Code Signing (1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.3)
The cert has been exported to a file…
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Windows Embedded Compact 7 - Do not automatically display on-screen keyboard
I have been building a .net application in c# for Windows CE. I had originally created it for a Motorola WT4090 which runs Windows CE 5. I have now got a Motorola WT41N0 that runs Windows Embedded Compact 7. When I run the application on the WT41N0…
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"Bootstrap could not be loaded" when deploying to Windows CE 7
I am trying to debug a c# application on a Motorola WT41N0 which runs Windows Compact Embedded 7 from Visual Studio 2008. When I press F5 to run the program, once visual studio tries to deploy to the device I get the following error: "The bootstrap…
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handheld with windows embedded 7
I'm a little new on Window Embedded Compact 7.0(WEC 7) so I have some question about it :
1- Is there any handheld device that runs with it? All I found run on 6.5 and lower win CE versions ( check this link please :…
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Is .NET Framework 4.5 and later are available on Embedded Compact 2013 and Windows 10 IoT core?
I have been creating applications on Windows CE with .NET Compact Framework 3.5 and as you might guess lots of features of .NET 4, 4.5 and later does not exist in compact (espacially XAML support).
Are those features available on Windows Embedded…
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Compiling boost library for Windows Embedded Compact 7
I'm programming for an embedded device with a NVIDIA Tegra 2 running Windows Embedded Compact 7. My development environment is Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. The boost library and especially the boost-asio package seems to be very helpfull for my…
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How can I programmatically determine if a table exists within a SQL Server CE database?
Back when I only had one table in my .sdf file, this code worked fine:
const string sdfPath = @"\Program Files\duckbilled\Platypus.sdf";
string dataSource = string.Format("Data Source={0}", sdfPath);
if (!File.Exists(sdfPath))
{
using (var…
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How to specify the path to a file on a Windows CE device?
I copied over some code from a test app:
const string sdfPath = @"C:\WebAPIClient\WebAPIClient\bin\Debug\DBPlatypusCompactDB.sdf";
string dataSource = string.Format("Data Source={0}", sdfPath);
int countAdded = 0;
if (!File.Exists(sdfPath))
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Styles for Silverlight for windows Embedded Compact 7 application
I am working on a application development that runs on Windows Embedded Compact 7. I used silverlight 3 and made some custom buttons styles using Blend 3. It works great on blend but after in into a sub project using WEST Tools for Windows Embedded…
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unresolved external symbol __imp__Inf and __imp__Nan
I just tried to build Qt for WinCE7.0 using VS2008 after lots of code modification I successfully compiled main libraries.
While Compiling the QtScript library I received the following linker errors:
1>Linking...
1> Creating library…
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Windows Compact 7: Modify existing control panel application
I am replacing a backlight driver for a device running Windows Embedded Compact 7. I'm hoping I can find the source for the application and modify it to call my driver instead of the old one.
Is there a way to tie my driver's functionality into…
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C# .NET Embedded Compact 2013 - How to invoke GetGestureInfo?
I have to develop a C# application which needs to make use of advanced gestures to improve the user experience. In order to do so, I need to get information
when a certain gesture is invoked by the user.
Because WndProc is a taboo in .NET CE, I'm…
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Select run-time library in Windows CE AppBuilder for Compact 2013
When you install your SDK (let's say the CEPC SDK) you get a folder tree at SdkRootPath. This tree contains two folders with the static libraries:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows CE Tools\SDKs\CEPC\Sdk\Crt\Lib\x86
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows CE…
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