Windows Embedded CE6 R3 supports both .NET CF 2.0 and 3.5. Great you think, but Visual Studio 2005 debugger only supports .NET CF 2.0. This can lead to some very ambiguous behavior when trying to debug .NET CF applications on a CE6 R3 device. Picture the following scenario. You have a Windows CE6 R3 device [...]
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Visual Studio 2005 with Windows Embedded CE6 R3 Device – .NET CF 2.0/3.5 compatibility problems
By william.white on September 7th, 2011
Visual Studio 2005 deploy error after downloading a managed code application to a Windows CE6 R3 device
By william.white on January 21st, 2011
After deploying a managed code application to a windows CE6 R3 device you get a deployment error something like: Deploying ‘C:\will\VBProjects\CEApp\bin\Debug\HelloWorld.exe’ Deploying ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SmartDevices\SDK\CompactFramework\2.0\v2.0\windowsce\diagnostics\System_SR_enu.cab’ Post-deploy error 0×00000001 returned after calling ‘\Windows\wceload.exe /noui \Windows\System_SR_enu.cab’. ========== Build: 1 Visual Studio 2005 will attempt to download the .NET CF 2.0 cab file (System_SR_enu.cab) and automatically [...]
TFTP Timeout while downloading Compact 7 to a Virtual PC target (and possibly others)
By william.white on December 24th, 2010
I encountered an error the other day when downloading Windows Embedded Compact 7 to a Windows Virtual PC on a Windows 7 host machine. Platform Builder initially started the download process and then immediately stopped with a TFTP time out error. I found this entry on Olivier Bloch MSDN Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/obloch/archive/2010/08/12/windows-embedded-compact-7-and-virtual-pc-bsp.aspx It seems that disabling [...]
Windows Embedded Standard 7 available on MSDN Embedded Subscription
By william.white on July 2nd, 2010
In case you hadn’t noticed, the final release of the Windows Embedded Standard 7 Toolkit is now available to those who have a MSDN Embedded Subscription. If you need a MSDN Embedded subscription you can purchase on-line here.