Components in Target Designer

You can use Windows XP Embedded Target Designer to find components in the component database, gather information about them, and add them to a configuration. You can also enable and disable component instances, and sometimes modify them, after they are included in a configuration.

In This Section

  • Component Properties in Target Designer
    Describes how to use Windows XP Embedded Target Designer to view and edit component properties.
  • Component Resources in Target Designer
    Describes how to use Windows XP Embedded Target Designer to view, edit, and disable the file, registry data, and other resources of a component.
  • Component Browser
    Describes how to use the component browser in Windows XP Embedded Target Designer to view and locate components in the component database.
  • Component Upgrading
    Describes how to replace the components in a configuration with the latest versions and revisions that exist in the component database.
  • Re-factored Components
    Lists components that were re-factored to enable footprint reduction.
    Dependency Checking
    Describes how to use Windows XP Embedded Target Designer to check and resolve component dependencies.
  • Adding a Component to a Configuration
    Describes how to add a component to a configuration.
  • Editing Component Settings
    Describes how to modify the settings of a component after it is added to a configuration.
  • Determining Component Size
    Describes how to determine the compressed and uncompressed sizes of the components in a configuration.
  • Estimating Configuration Footprint
    Describes how to estimate the impact that a component will have on the size of a configuration before you add it to the configuration.
  • Enabling Components
    Describes how to use Windows XP Embedded Target Designer to enable disabled components in a configuration.
  • Disabling Components
    Describes how to use Windows XP Embedded Target Designer to disable components in a configuration.

See Also

See Components in Windows XP Embedded Help for a description of components and how they are created, used, and managed.

Last updated on Wednesday, October 18, 2006

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