Services - Windows CE Training

Microsoft Windows Embedded Training Partner Direct Insight offers two courses for Windows Embedded CE. This page describes our one-day introductory course. For our 3 day "deep-dive" hands-on course, please follow this link: Windows CE 3-day course. These courses can also be run on-site, please email as below for further details.

Course Links Duration One day: 10am to 4pm - light lunch provided Delegate Profile Engineers with an understanding of digital design and embedded software development, but with no prior experience of Windows CE will find this course highly beneficial. Managers with an engineering background will also benefit. Please note that this is a technical training course, and may not be useful to non-engineers. Course Format Live Demonstration. Most of the course content will be conveyed by live demonstration of the tools and techniques using a projector. Date/Location Birmingham: April 10th 2008 Stevenage, Silica Office June 26th 2008 Reading (Microsoft): September 18th 2008 Venue TBC December 4th 2008 Course fee £200 / €275 per delegate (excl. VAT)

Developing with Windows Embedded CE 6.0 - A Practical Guide

The economic and technical benefits of moving to Windows CE are compelling, but for a development team used to working without an OS, or with a commercial RTOS, or with no 32-bit experience this can represent a steep and daunting learning curve, full of unfamiliar concepts and jargon.

Microsoft Embedded Partner Direct Insight is well experienced in guiding inexperienced engineers along the Windows CE path. Starting with a broad-based examination of what Windows Embedded is (and isn't), covering target microcontroller choices and hardware development matters, this course quickly homes in on the all-important issues underlying platform development, and using real examples provides a comprehensive technical overview of the development process.

Using Microsoft tools, including Platform Builder and Visual Studio 2005, in conjunction with a real PXA270-based development kit, this live-demonstration based course does not use simulators or x86 hardware and is therefore representative of a real development scenario.

Course Content

• Windows Embedded fundamentals: when to choose Windows CE. Other options - Windows XPe, Linux, Commercial RTOS
  
  
• Hardware compatibility and design issues: choosing a microcontroller
  
  
• Tool requirements and options
  
  
• Building your own Windows CE OS design in Platform Builder (PB)
  • Using the device wizard to create a customized Windows CE OS Design from a BSP
  • Adding and removing Windows CE catalogue features
  • Building the OS Design
  • Downloading OS design to the device (Ethernet, serial)
    
    
• Device side - Getting the OS design running on the device (bootloaders - eboot, redboot etc)
  
  
• Debugging Techniques
  • PB debugger
  • Windows CE kernel debugger
  • PB debugger remote tools using ActiveSync
  • JTAG debuggers, eXDI connection
  • Burning final image into FLASH and configuring for auto boot
• Manufacturing issues
  
  
• Developing your own Application for a Windows CE Device
  • Application Development tools VS 2005, EVC++
  • Creating an SDK from the OS Design for use with above
  • Connecting tools to device with ActiveSync
  • Concept of managed code .NET Compact Framework
    
    
• comparing Windows Embedded CE 6.0 and Windows CE 5.0
  • should I switch?

Registration
Please email sally.calvert@directinsight.co.uk