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August 20 Get the new WES CTP!There is a new CTP of Windows Embedded Standard out! You can get it at: https://connect.microsoft.com/windowsembedded
Windows Embedded Standard is the XP embedded release and includes some interesting features such as OSD support, etc.
Defintely worth a look! And, wait a minute, the Windows Embedded team is even offering a draw for anybody testeing the new system.
Alexander August 12 Newest version of SQL Server Compact releasedThe newest version of SSC has been released. It is 3.5 SP1 now.
Check out the news as well as the download links at Steve Laskers Blog.
SSC is the only database from Microsoft that spans the whole range from embedded to desktop applications.
Check it out and get Your hands dirty. :-)
Alexander August 01 EMEA & Americas Windows Embedded Excellence Award Winners Announced
July 18 NIK Server 2008 event - Tower of Power ShellAt the recent NIK Server event I did an introductory talk on Windows Power Shell, the new .NET based command line environment available in version 2.0, soon. As I fired the shell for demos I was washed away by questions from the audience. It even was not possible to finish my samples and therefore interested participants and me were sitting together during the following coffee break to get them half-way completed.
Aside from getting jokes by my fellow speakers for doing overtime, I was absolutely surprised by the interest people had in the very details of this new admin tool. I consider putting out a course for power shell.
Anyone interested to get a deep dive on this absolutely great execution environment?
Just drop me a line.  July 08 .NET MF Rescue ToolThis weekend I was preparing a .NET MF workshop and got quite a shock, when I could not upgrade my dev boards to the newest release of the firmware including do to a signage error as stated by the upgrade programm. The tool that really helped my out this time was MFDeploy.exe, which is part of the SDK tools. With it, the upgrade of the binaries on all boards worked like charm.
well, it is always good to know some friendly helpers, when You need them. ;-)
Btw., the new IP/Stack in the .NET MF is quite cool and together with the DPWS (e.g. UPnP over Web Services) in Beta I see a loot of interesting usage scenarios coming.
Alexander July 03 Say "Hello!" to Windows Server 2008 - NIK Event 15.07.2008Windows Server 2008 will be complete with the final release of the Hypervisor very soon. Therefore, it is time to have closer look at it as well as get to know all the cool new features. Join some well respectet experts from Microsoft, experienced Microsoft partners and myself on July, 15th 2008 at the Nuremberg Initiative for Communication (NIK) event "Windows Server 2008 inside". Get a full day of high quality and well-targeted information You will not find anywhere else.
Would be my pleasure to see You there! BTW., I will be talking on the powers of power shell, whhich might even be interesting to non server guys.
Alexander June 13 Detect XPe Devices with SCCMJust after my session on the management of XPe devices using Systen Center Configuration Manager 2007 I was asked to blog the settings You need to do to achieve this.
 So here we go:
Edit the SMS_def.mof file that controls Your SCCM inventory collection and set the parameter information for OSProductSuite from FALSE to TRUE. This enables the collection of this parameter from the field devices. You need to wait some time until results arrive.
The create a new collection in the SCCM MMC using the selection criteria OSProductSuite = 64, which is contained in the Operating System object.
After this You should see your XPe devices (and only them) in that collection. If You need to distinguish between pre and past FP 2007 devices look for the string "Embedded" in the OSName property. Devices pre FP 2007 do not have this addition in the name.
Alexander
June 11 Great booksHere are some great books on .NET (C#) as well as the .Net Micro Framework I just came across. One is Professional C# 2005 by Christian Nagel a true compendium, which nevertheless stays undertandable and reader-friendly.
The other one is Expert .NET Micro Framework by Jens Kühner. It gives a good overview on quite a few of the availble MF dev boards as well as a good entry into the world of .NET on micro controllers.
June 10 On the way to Orlando - meet me at TechED blogger loungeI am writing this sitting at Munich airport waiting for the plane to Orlando.
Weather is getting colder again over here, therefore a little tropic Florida breeze is always welcome.
I will be at the Blogger Lounge set up by the TechEd Team next to the TechEd Online Stage tomorrow from 2-3 pm.
If You are town, please drop by for a nice chat and a coffee!
Alexander May 14 Alexander at TechED IT-ProfessionalYes, it is TechEd time again.
This year I will be speaking at TechEd IT-Professional (June 10-13, 2008) about topics around the use of XP embedded in Enterprise and medical scenarios:
XPe and System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Using XPe in medical settings XPe Enterprise Security Would be my pleasure to see You there!
Alexander April 23 Robotics Studio CTP -t ry it!Even if You are not building robots, Microsoft Robotics Studio is able to deliver good value in Your project. What are robots other than a certain form of connected devices?
Check out the new CTP at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=EB00C558-2163-45A5-BEFE-531AD48BC525&displaylang=en
Alexander
April 10 CF cards for XPe fxed or removable?There are two kinds of CF cards available. A lot of them are intended for use in cameras and PDAs, etc. and have a bit set indicating that they are removable. The problem is that it is not possible to boot XPe on them without getting the bit set to fixed (there cannot be more than one partition on them either). There are tools in the market that will do this, but these do not always work reliably.
My advice would be to buy (industrial grade, of course) cards with the bit set to fixed to avoid that hassle and maybe negative side-effects.
Alexander
April 07 What does help in the development jungle?Right, only a guerilla event. You wanna be trained by two Microsoft regional Directors?
Well, then here is Your chance: http://blogs.thinktecture.com/cweyer/archive/2008/02/22/415115.aspx
My fellow RDs Christian Weyer and Ingo Rammer are ready to give You the complete insight on the .NET enterprise functionality.
And additionally, Munich in May is not a bad place to be.
 Alexander March 28 WCF in the .NET Compact Framework 3.5Distributed applications on mobile devices are hard to handle as soon as You need to have a reliable and robust communication mechanism. But wait, did You ever think about using email as transport layer for Your application?
 Doing this is not too hard leveraging the new WCF capabilities in .NET CF 3.5!
Have a look at Andrew Arnott's article on MSDN to find our more about the details: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164240.aspx.
Alexander March 20 Time to write Windows Mobile business applications!Lots of products and tools are cranked out by the product teams in Redmond every year. Therefore it is quite important to get some guidance through that wealth. The Windows Mobile Line of Business Solution accelerator is both. Great architectural guidance as well as a great implementation sample. Go and check it out!
Alexander
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