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Windows Embedded CE 6.0

Why develop a smart, connected device with Windows CE / Compact 7?

A lot of people contact us looking for basic information about Windows CE 6.0 and Compact 7, probably because we are a Windows Embedded Gold Partner – maybe we are more approachable than Microsoft? Or perhaps it’s because we don’t just do Microsoft. Anyway, if you’re thinking about Windows CE, but undecided, hopefully this post [...]

Visual Studio 2005 with Windows Embedded CE6 R3 Device – .NET CF 2.0/3.5 compatibility problems

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 [...]

Visual Studio 2005 deploy error after downloading a managed code application to a Windows CE6 R3 device

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 [...]