Common Questions from Embedded World.

Embedded World was pretty interesting, the last time I attended the event was about four years ago. I spent time on the Microsoft booth talking with people about tools and technology which was excellent, and also managed to grab some time to walk around the show floor - it was good to see so much hardware running on Windows Embedded operating systems!

During the course of the event there were a number of 'common' questions - here's the list:

Q: Are there any JVMs for Windows CE that support running local Java applications and Java content in the Windows CE browser.

A: Yes, there are a number of examples, here's one from bSquare - https://www.bsquare.com/products/jemce/

Q: Do you have a list of supported BSPs for Windows CE 5.0

A: Yes, here's a link to useful web sites -

Supported Drivers: https://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/usewinemb/ce/drivers/supdrivers

Supported Processors: https://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/usewinemb/ce/supproc

Supported BSPs: https://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/usewinemb/ce/bsp/supbsps

Q: What are the graphics options for Windows CE ?

A: There are a number of options:

GDI (Win32 for typical application development)

DirectX (D3D etc...) - great for games

OpenGL ES (3rd Party solution) - a port of OpenGL to Windows CE

- Mike

Comments

• Anonymous
  February 21, 2006
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• Anonymous
  February 23, 2006
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• Anonymous
  March 14, 2006
  Does .Net Compact Framework on WinCE support OPENGL?
• Anonymous
  March 15, 2006
  no, Windows CE doesn't support OpenGL, there are 3rd party solutions, such as OpenGL ES - http://www.khronos.org/opengles/
  
  - Mike
• Anonymous
  March 16, 2006
  Is OpenGL ES for free? Thanks.
• Anonymous
  March 16, 2006
  I would check with the OpenGL ES provider - link is in the blog post above.
  
  - Mike