Questions tagged [windows-embedded-compact]

Previously known as 'Windows CE', Microsoft changed the naming of the operating system starting with version 7.0.

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Installing WEC 2013

I'm experiencing so many different problems installing WEC 2013 - it fails at various points, depending of what I select. I tried downloading all the different update versions ISOs from MSDN and they all fail in one way or the other. One of the many…
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Using nandflash with hardware ecc in Win CE6

Currently, I am adapting a Win CE6 device to a new nand flash chip. The new nand has higher ecc requirements (4 bit / 512 bytes) and supports on chip ecc calculation. Microsoft flash filesystem writes to sectors without erasing them. This happens…
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Finding thread using TID

I am building an application based on wec7. I have the following thread: bool ChannelDataQueue::b_ChannelDataQueue_StartThread() { m_hThread = CreateThread(NULL, 0, ChannelDataQueue::u32_ChannelDataQueue_ReadChannelData, (LPVOID)this,…
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Windows Embedded Developer Update (Embedded Compact 7)

I have been trying to get the WEDU tool to work for Embedded Compact 7 and I'm having no…
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Platform Builder - File System File (.dat) - not working

I am working on touch screen drivers from Touch Base. I have the drivers working, but I am having a problem with the calibration utility. It requires some external bitmap files and they have to be located in \Application Data\updd. I have tried…
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Windows Embedded USB Client options

I am a very novice embedded developer and I am trying to develop a commercial product using Windows Embedded Compact and a Toradex Apalis T30 COM. Firstly just excuse me here, I am not a professional nor a trained engineer, merely a hobbyist trying…
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Windows Embedded Compact 2013 - Initial Application Focus

I have a log in screen when my application starts and would like the cursor to be waiting in the user name text box to type (without clicking). I was able to focus the cursor after the grid loads: HRESULT MainPage::OnLoaded(__in IXRDependencyObject*…
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Cannot build Qt 5.4 for Windows Embedded Compact 7

I am struggling to get Qt 5.4 to build for WEC. I am using the Toradex SDK (http://developer.toradex.com/software-resources/arm-family/windows-ce/development-tools#Visual_Studio_2008). I can get it to configure using “Configure –platform…
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Windows Embedded OpengGL ES in XAML

I am trying to figure out if either Windows Embedded Compact 2013 or 7 will allow me to have an OpenGL ES view inside my XAML UI. For both I can get a lot of information on how the system can use OpenGL to run the actual XAML engine as to enhance…
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Win EC7 licenses: what does "depending on device type" mean?

using the 'runtime license assessment tool' for the first time in Embedded Compact 7, I'm a bit puzzled about it's output. My questions are: why is e.g. the SIP listed in two different licenses (C7E and C7P)? what does 'depending on device type'…
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VS2008 Connection with Windows Embedded Compact 7

I have visual studio 2008 SP1 with framework 3.5. I have a device which has a operation system as Windows Embedded Compact 7. Now whenever I try to deploy my application on that device at that time I got an error that the bootstrap cannot be…
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Using Lua as script on Windows Embedded Compact 2013

I'm using Visual Studio 2013 and I have a Virtual Computer with Windows Embedded Compact 2013. I already have tested some simple C++ applications, just to see if they work on WEC2013 - they do. Now I am looking for a way to use Lua as a scripting…
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How can I get the single val from a SQL Server CE query that returns one column from one row?

I need to retrieve the val from one column of a table, any record (the val should be the same at any given time in all records; that is to say, if it's "3", it will be "3" in all of them; if it's "17", it will be "17" in all of them (or "42" or…
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VS2008 Debug WEC7 Application - Breakpoint will not currently be hit. No executable code is currently loaded at this function

I have to port a C++ Win32 console application to WEC7. After I fixed some build and link errors I was able to create an executable that runs on the target. But I could not debug that application with Visual Studio, because the breakpoints were not…
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Windows Embedded Compact 2013: missing function in SDK

I am working with making a minshell in c++ for our BSP, we wanted it in native for speed and stability (feel free to coment on this). Anyways, we have made our own SDK (to work with ARM processors) and I think maybe the problem itself explains my…