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Posted by: Sue Loh [Back from MEDC-Europe and I had a great time! It was nice to talk to our...
Author: ce_base Date: 06/14/2006
Flush-On-Close Registry Flushing
I received several questions in the past regarding registry testing related to the Flush-On-Close...
Author: ce_base Date: 05/23/2006
Stress Test Best Practice
When doing testing, we always want to cover as much area as possible. Unfortunately, it's almost...
Author: ce_base Date: 05/23/2006
Want more Shared Source?
Posted by: Sue Loh Is there source code that is not part of our shared source, that you wish was?...
Author: ce_base Date: 05/16/2006
MEDC 2006 Vegas is now over.
Posted by: Sue Loh Well, another year over and I think it went well. We got to finally announce the...
Author: ce_base Date: 05/12/2006
WESC: How to write a good report
Posted by: Sue Loh I have been reviewing reports for the Windows Embedded Student ChallengE and was...
Author: ce_base Date: 05/02/2006
Welcome to WinCE Base Test Team's Blog
Feel free to use this blog to do a quick documentation related to WinCE tests, especially around...
Author: ce_base Date: 04/28/2006
INTRODUCTION: JIM MULIAWAN
Originally from Indonesia, I came to study in US, graduated and worked on embedded systems for about...
Author: ce_base Date: 04/28/2006
MEDC-Vegas less than 2 weeks away!
Posted by: Sue Loh Do YOU have YOUR tickets? I am pretty psyched. I will be giving 2 talks plus an...
Author: ce_base Date: 04/27/2006
Structure Packing
Posted by: Russ Keldorph Structure packing is an extenstion to the C++ language supported by many...
Author: ce_base Date: 04/14/2006
Windows CE Native Compilers
Posted by: Russ Keldorph Hi, I'm Russ Keldorph, the dev lead for the native (ARM, MIPS, & SH-4)...
Author: ce_base Date: 04/14/2006
Loading a File System Driver using a “dummy” Block Driver.
Typically, stand-alone (or monolithic) file system drivers are loaded from an AutoLoad key in the...
Author: ce_base Date: 03/17/2006
How to Programmatically Improve File System Throughput
Writing large amounts of data to persistent media can take large amounts of time. While Windows CE...
Author: ce_base Date: 03/15/2006
WESC interactive site is now live
Posted by: Sue Loh To those of you from the Windows Embedded Student ChallengE competition who may...
Author: ce_base Date: 03/03/2006
Porting CEDB apps to EDB
Posted by: Sue Loh Apparently I missed this post on the Windows Mobile team blog a long time back. I...
Author: ce_base Date: 02/23/2006
Encryption and Filters between WM2003 and WM5
Posted by: Sue Loh It seems that a common need people have is to encrypt all the data on a device,...
Author: ce_base Date: 02/22/2006
How OEMs implement Clean Boot on WM5
Posted by: Sue Loh (with help from Andrew Rogers) I’ve seen this question fly by a few times, so I’m...
Author: ce_base Date: 02/09/2006
AppVerifier for Windows Mobile 5!
Posted by: Sue Loh Hot off the presses! (Yeay I even beat Mike Hall to spreading the news.) You can...
Author: ce_base Date: 02/03/2006
Inside Windows CE API Calls
Posted by: Sue Loh Windows CE APIs are implemented by a set of server processes. Besides the kernel...
Author: ce_base Date: 02/02/2006
CEDB vs. EDB
Posted by: Sue Loh CEDB was created as a lightweight database API for Windows CE. A long time back,...
Author: ce_base Date: 02/02/2006
Dumping Registry Hives and CEDB Database Volumes
Posted by: Sue Loh Once in a while people ask how to find out what's inside the boot.hv or other .hv...
Author: ce_base Date: 01/30/2006
A Tour of Windows CE Memory Tools
Posted by: Sue Loh This list of tools completes what I started with my perf tool list...
Author: ce_base Date: 01/11/2006
Tips for Writing a File System Filter
There have been a few questions posted to the newsgroup over the past few months on the scope the...
Author: ce_base Date: 12/01/2005
Introduction: Ariane Jansen
After growing up in sunny San Diego and attending college in snowy New Jersey I now live in the...
Author: ce_base Date: 12/01/2005
Tips for using Breakpoints
Posted by: Sue Loh I've been working with one of our customers the last couple of days, and found...
Author: ce_base Date: 11/30/2005
Mobile & Wireless Research Funding Initiative
Posted by: Sue Loh On a similar note, I learned today that Microsoft Research is currently accepting...
Author: ce_base Date: 11/16/2005
Windows Embedded Student ChallengE 2006
Posted by: Sue Loh Registration is now open for the 2006 Windows ChallengE competition, and closes...
Author: ce_base Date: 11/16/2005
Shared Heap Pitfalls
Posted by: Sue Loh I just saw someone on our newsgroups make a recommendation that to get past the...
Author: ce_base Date: 09/29/2005
CD/DVD-ROM drive doesn't mount when using the Hive-Based registry
We received the following question today on our Base Team Blog email alias. I figured it would be...
Author: ce_base Date: 09/29/2005
Flush with care
Posted by: Sue Loh I would like to add some comments to extend what was said on a recent post on the...
Author: ce_base Date: 09/26/2005
POOM replication on WM5
Posted by: Sue Loh I just recently learned that EDB, the database engine that is used for most of...
Author: ce_base Date: 09/23/2005
OS updates and the hive-based registry
Posted by: Sue Loh I attempted to document this behavior in the file that has become...
Author: ce_base Date: 09/22/2005
Persisting PIM data
Posted by: Sue Loh I'm posting this information because for some reason it falls out of my head like...
Author: ce_base Date: 09/15/2005
Tools -> Options -> Build
Posted by: Sue Loh If you have just done an install of Platform Builder, and opened it for the first...
Author: ce_base Date: 09/15/2005
Fun question: How many people work on Windows CE?
Posted by: Sue Loh C'mon. Give it a guess. How many jelly beans are in the jar? I want to know what...
Author: ce_base Date: 09/08/2005
Readlog summary output: process run times
Posted by: Sue Loh Today I got a question about the readlog summary output: When using the most...
Author: ce_base Date: 09/01/2005
Practical use of RAM beyond 512MB
Posted By: Sue Loh I actually got a fourth question from Gursharan, but it is a separate topic so...
Author: ce_base Date: 08/31/2005
Interacting with FSDMGR
In interacting with the FSDMGR and its helper functions, there are two pseudo-handle types that will...
Author: ce_base Date: 08/09/2005
Registry Configuration for an FSD
File system drivers can be loaded in two different ways: loaded in response to a disk being attached...
Author: ce_base Date: 08/09/2005
FSDMGR Helper Functions for FSD Developers
FSDMGR provides many helper functions to make developing an FSD easier. In particular, registry...
Author: ce_base Date: 08/09/2005
Implementing FSD_GetVolumeInfo
In Windows CE 5.0, we added a new FSD API: FSD_GetVolumeInfo. This API is used to populate the...
Author: ce_base Date: 08/09/2005
Implementing FSD Call-back File Notifications
In the past, the Windows CE file explorer required every File System Driver (FSD) to perform...
Author: ce_base Date: 08/09/2005
Introduction: Andrew Rogers
A Seattle native, I started work at Microsoft in August 2000 as a Software Design Engineer writing...
Author: ce_base Date: 08/09/2005
CeLog corruption
Posted by: Sue Loh CeLog file corruption is a squirrely problem I haven't tracked down a reason for...
Author: ce_base Date: 06/24/2005