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Introducing the Location Framework for Windows CE
We're very committed on CE to creating a great development platform for location aware applications....
Author: cenet Date: 11/15/2006
Completing RTC's NAT story
In my first post, I touched on all the new features of RTC 1.5. Prathap also posted a blog on RTC...
Author: cenet Date: 11/13/2006
Real-time Communications (RTC) 1.5 Port Manager
The updates made in RTC 1.5 includes Port Manager API extensions. This blog tries to explain how RTC...
Author: cenet Date: 11/10/2006
GPSID: From device driver->service and why GPS OEMs should care
I realize as I type this that there's probably 5 people in the world that actually care about this...
Author: cenet Date: 11/10/2006
What’s new in Real time Communication (RTC) 1.5?
Updates to RTC APIs on CE, has been prolonged for some time and there has been many updates to it...
Author: cenet Date: 11/08/2006
Services.exe and the Windows CE 6.0 kernel
Note: This is more of a geeky article for people who want to know how stuff works under the hood in...
Author: cenet Date: 11/07/2006
How to get logging on MSMQ on a Windows Mobile Device
If you're having problems with MSMQ on a general embedded device, you can build a debug image and...
Author: cenet Date: 10/31/2006
Why doesn't Windows Mobile support out of proc COM?
Why doesn't Windows Mobile have out of proc COM in the first place? It gets down to ROM constraints....
Author: cenet Date: 10/27/2006
Wifi driver handling of OID_802_11_SSID set requests
Wireless Zero Configuration (WZC) will issue OID_802_11_SSID set requests to an 802.11 (Wifi)...
Author: cenet Date: 10/23/2006
Windows Mobile does not support out-of-process COM
COM on Windows Mobile only supports creating in-proc COM objects, not out-of-proc or COM objects on...
Author: cenet Date: 10/20/2006
ISAPI Raw Filters Deprecated on Windows CE
Since Windows CE 5.0, we have been deprecating ISAPI raw read/write filters. (See HttpFilterProc...
Author: cenet Date: 08/28/2006
ASP.Net on Windows CE
Summary: I've been asked this a number of times in the last few weeks, so I'll say for the record...
Author: cenet Date: 08/23/2006
GPSGetPosition as glorified memcpy()
I've spoken with a number of OEMs & ISVs regarding GPSID and many people assume that a call to...
Author: cenet Date: 08/18/2006
Overlooked features of Windows CE services.exe
The main job of services.exe on Windows CE is to host service DLLs and provide a nice interprocess...
Author: cenet Date: 08/15/2006
Getting position of a Windows Mobile 5 device on the cheap
Let's say that you have an application where if it had the position of the device it would be cool,...
Author: cenet Date: 08/14/2006
Q & A for LAP writers on Windows Mobile
I wanted to write a blog entry about LASS and LAP, but almost everything I could say has already...
Author: cenet Date: 08/10/2006
Windows CE on the domain
Suppose you have a CE device and you want it in on an enterprise. This blog contains the brain dump...
Author: cenet Date: 07/27/2006
Where can I find sample code to do XML parsing on WinCE?
So you want to do something with XML on WinCE / Windows Mobile and want to see sample code to do it....
Author: cenet Date: 07/24/2006
What is Windows CE 5.01?
I believe in the documentation still in someplaces and inadvertently in this blog I mention CE 5.01....
Author: cenet Date: 07/22/2006
Why did GPSID premier on Windows Mobile 5? Can I get it for CE 5.0?
A number of Platform Builder/general embedded customers have asked me why GPSID wasn't available on...
Author: cenet Date: 07/11/2006
Why is GPSID tricky to configure on PocketPC/SP?
Some customers have brought up the fact that in order to configure GPSID on a Windows Mobile5...
Author: cenet Date: 07/07/2006
Communication between drivers/services on a WinCE device
Suppose that you have a device driver that needs to communicate to another device driver on WinCE....
Author: cenet Date: 06/22/2006
TAPI Resource Cleanup
TAPI maintains its resources in a hierarchy and will perform automatic cleanup based on the...
Author: cenet Date: 06/16/2006
TAPI Call Handle Confusion
TAPI call handles (HCALLs) consume memory and should be closed with lineDeallocateCall when no...
Author: cenet Date: 06/13/2006
Pageable Device Drivers
During the Windows Mobile 5.0 timeframe, we changed most of the networking components to be pageable...
Author: cenet Date: 06/13/2006
About David Kanz
I'm David Kanz. I've worked at Microsoft since October 19, 1987 - Yes, Black Monday. I initially...
Author: cenet Date: 06/13/2006
Connection Request Status Transitions
Creation of CR initiates the process during which attempts at connecting, or satisfying, that CR...
Author: cenet Date: 06/07/2006
Introduction to Connection Manager
Connection Manager (CM) is a networking component available on Microsoft Pocket PC and Windows...
Author: cenet Date: 06/07/2006
About Adam…
My name is Adam Dyba. I’ve been working on Windows CE core networking technologies since 2001....
Author: cenet Date: 06/07/2006
TCP Timers and Battery Life
Many modern processors (especially those designed specifically for mobile devices) have various...
Author: cenet Date: 06/01/2006
Windows CE & Dvorak
BackgroundIgorD recently posted an amazingly useful entry, which is always my hint to post something...
Author: cenet Date: 05/19/2006
LSP installer code for Windows Mobile and Windows CE
Great news the installer code I've been describing on my blog is now available at codeplex. Please...
Author: cenet Date: 05/17/2006
How come WPUQueueApc returns WSAEOPNOTSUPP for Windows CE
The Windows CE OS does not support APC's therefore winsock2 also can't support them. The workaround...
Author: cenet Date: 04/29/2006
About Omar
Hi, my name is Omar Maabreh. I work in the Windows CE core networking team. I own winsock, dhcp,...
Author: cenet Date: 04/29/2006
time.h on Windows CE
Since my last post was time related, why not another? Don't worry too much about why this is on a...
Author: cenet Date: 04/29/2006
Daylight Savings Time Roll-overs on Windows CE
Summary: On rereading this post, I realized it's pretty complicated. The summary here is that you...
Author: cenet Date: 04/28/2006
Mobile & Embedded Developers Conference (MEDC)
In just over a month we'll be having the Mobile & Embedded Developers Conference in Las Vegas....
Author: cenet Date: 03/29/2006
Remote DCOM and Windows CE
Windows CE for Platform Builder/OEMs has DCOM as a module that can be optionally included. It is...
Author: cenet Date: 03/22/2006
Debugging a service not being able to load?
So you have a DLL that you've written for services.exe and it's not loading? The list below deal...
Author: cenet Date: 03/19/2006
Importing a session key into CAPI
I've seen a lot of non-optimal code to import a session key into CAPI. The attached code provides a...
Author: cenet Date: 02/24/2006
Bugs in the CE sample LSP
I've spent the last few days looking at LSPs and have found some errors in the sample. These are: 1....
Author: cenet Date: 02/15/2006
Windows CE GPSID, its C# wrapper, and device emulator interaction issues
GPSID (the GPS abstraction APIs introduced in Windows Mobile 5) has a few known issues (aka bugs)....
Author: cenet Date: 02/10/2006
Setting up a 802.1x test network for Windows CE
I little while back I had to setup a RADIUS server to perform 802.1x testing over Wifi for Windows...
Author: cenet Date: 02/01/2006
RNDIS driver architecture differences between Windows CE 4.2 and 5.0.
I have received some questions on the differences in RNDIS driver architecture between Windows CE...
Author: cenet Date: 01/07/2006
About Soemin...
Hello, my name is Soemin, and I have been a software developer in Windows CE networking team since...
Author: cenet Date: 01/07/2006
Writing a network audio driver in Windows CE – Part 5 - Power consumption
Writing a network audio driver in Windows CE – Part 5 - Power consumption This blog will discuss...
Author: cenet Date: 12/15/2005
What the SERVICE_INIT_STOPPED flag really means
On Windows CE services.exe, there is a Context registry key associated with each service in the...
Author: cenet Date: 12/14/2005
Contacting the CE Net Bloggers
The CENet bloggers have received a number of requests for help for various Windows CE issues. Most...
Author: cenet Date: 12/05/2005