Previously known as 'Windows CE', Microsoft changed the naming of the operating system starting with version 7.0.
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Detect what cross compiler is running
I am using VS2013 and a WEC2013 custom SDK to compile a program for a WEC2013 (ARM) device. The compiler is part of the SDK. Now I experience different behavior of the compilation on two different PCs.
The compiler puts .tlog output files in the…

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UI Designer Exception for Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5 Project in Visual Studio 2017
I know Visual Studio 2017 does not support Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5, and Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 is required. However recently got new hardware still running this mobile OS but do not have access to Visual Studio 2008. And not really keen to…

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Setup Development Environment For Windows Embedded Compac
Hi guys I am trying to develop for a Windows Embedded Compact edition 2013 using Visual Studio 2013 on Windows 10. But I have not been able to.
I have installed the Application Builder and still could not find a template in Visual Studio…

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LDAP binding on Windows vs. VCE
I have been given the simple task to do Windows authentication against the AD from a Windows Compact 7 device in a C# app. Now - 14 days later I'm still struggling, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Anyway - what I’ve managed to come up with…

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Floating point ARM support in WEC7
In VS2008 Platform Builder, the selection options for "Target architecture for compiler" of "ARMv7 with VFPv3-D32" will use these build options: /QRarch7 /QRfpe- /arch:VFPv3-D32
uSoft say's:
For platforms without VFP hardware, use the flag…

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Can i use the event handle associated with WSAEventSelect() in WaitForMultipleObjects()
I want to create a thread that waits for activity on a TCP socket as well as some other application specific events. To achieve this I was thinking if I can use the event handle that I associated with a socket using WSAEventSelect() along with other…

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Recording sound with MVC
There is a MVC project needs to run on Honeywell CV31 Vehicle-Mounted Computer and the issue is recording, playing sounds at browser. Device has Windows CE 7.0.
I tried to use Intermec HTML 5 browser but audio tag is not available on it, also…

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Developing GUIs for Windows Embedded Compact 2013
We are currently evaluating Visual Studio as the IDE to develop embedded applications for Windows CE 2013.
Understandably having access to a large variety of widgets (either open or commercial) would be preferable to help us speed up GUI…

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Window embedded CE connectivity with SQL Compact in Visual Studio 2008
Solution Explorer is shown in this imageHow can i connect with SQL Compact server database for window CE devices. I have tired it with a simple code.Window CE should connect to the SQL compact server but i am novice user for this technology .This is…

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Windows Embedded Compact 7 Connection Manager
We're attempting to write a code base in C++ for connecting to Wifi programatically in WEC 7. We started out using Native Wifi, but reached a snag when we found that, if Connection Manager is installed, Native Wifi will always return Access Denied…

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How to get netmask and default gateway of adapters in WEC2013
The function GetAdaptersInfo allows to retrieve the address information including netmask and default gateway for all adapters.
This function is deprecated since Windows Embedded Compact 7.
The "Functionality To Use Instead" list the function…

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Set the SYSGEN_NETUTILS variable in your OS design
I need to go through this manual:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn197917.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
And I do not understand point 2. It says: "Set the SYSGEN_NETUTILS variable in your OS design to include ipconfig.exe"
Can someone,…

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Porting an app from Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5 to 8.1
We have a RFID application running on Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5, but now some clients are asking to upgrade the app to run on 8.1
We have not done it yet, as from MSDN, it seems these two are built on different platforms, i.e. Windows Mobile 6.5…

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Is there a way to prevent deploying .NET CF files to the target device by default?
Microsoft considers some Visual Studio (2008 in this case) project settings to be user-specific and stores them in the project's .csproj.user file. One of these values is the indicator that tells the IDE whether or not to deploy the .NET CF files…

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Populating ListBox from C++ using Grid
In specific, how do you take elements/models that are added to an XRObservableCollection and use them to generate rows/columns in XAML listbox?
I have tried to do this on my own, but my listbox remains empty, despite having elements added to my…

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