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Posted by: Sue Loh [Back from MEDC-Europe and I had a great time! It was nice to talk to our...

Author: ce_base Date: 06/14/2006

Flush-On-Close Registry Flushing

I received several questions in the past regarding registry testing related to the Flush-On-Close...

Author: ce_base Date: 05/23/2006

Stress Test Best Practice

When doing testing, we always want to cover as much area as possible. Unfortunately, it's almost...

Author: ce_base Date: 05/23/2006

Want more Shared Source?

Posted by: Sue Loh Is there source code that is not part of our shared source, that you wish was?...

Author: ce_base Date: 05/16/2006

MEDC 2006 Vegas is now over.

Posted by: Sue Loh Well, another year over and I think it went well. We got to finally announce the...

Author: ce_base Date: 05/12/2006

WESC: How to write a good report

Posted by: Sue Loh I have been reviewing reports for the Windows Embedded Student ChallengE and was...

Author: ce_base Date: 05/02/2006

Welcome to WinCE Base Test Team's Blog

Feel free to use this blog to do a quick documentation related to WinCE tests, especially around...

Author: ce_base Date: 04/28/2006

INTRODUCTION: JIM MULIAWAN

Originally from Indonesia, I came to study in US, graduated and worked on embedded systems for about...

Author: ce_base Date: 04/28/2006

MEDC-Vegas less than 2 weeks away!

Posted by: Sue Loh Do YOU have YOUR tickets? I am pretty psyched. I will be giving 2 talks plus an...

Author: ce_base Date: 04/27/2006

Structure Packing

Posted by: Russ Keldorph Structure packing is an extenstion to the C++ language supported by many...

Author: ce_base Date: 04/14/2006

Windows CE Native Compilers

Posted by: Russ Keldorph Hi, I'm Russ Keldorph, the dev lead for the native (ARM, MIPS, & SH-4)...

Author: ce_base Date: 04/14/2006

Loading a File System Driver using a “dummy” Block Driver.

Typically, stand-alone (or monolithic) file system drivers are loaded from an AutoLoad key in the...

Author: ce_base Date: 03/17/2006

How to Programmatically Improve File System Throughput

Writing large amounts of data to persistent media can take large amounts of time. While Windows CE...

Author: ce_base Date: 03/15/2006

WESC interactive site is now live

Posted by: Sue Loh To those of you from the Windows Embedded Student ChallengE competition who may...

Author: ce_base Date: 03/03/2006

Porting CEDB apps to EDB

Posted by: Sue Loh Apparently I missed this post on the Windows Mobile team blog a long time back. I...

Author: ce_base Date: 02/23/2006

Encryption and Filters between WM2003 and WM5

Posted by: Sue Loh It seems that a common need people have is to encrypt all the data on a device,...

Author: ce_base Date: 02/22/2006

How OEMs implement Clean Boot on WM5

Posted by: Sue Loh (with help from Andrew Rogers) I’ve seen this question fly by a few times, so I’m...

Author: ce_base Date: 02/09/2006

AppVerifier for Windows Mobile 5!

Posted by: Sue Loh Hot off the presses! (Yeay I even beat Mike Hall to spreading the news.) You can...

Author: ce_base Date: 02/03/2006

Inside Windows CE API Calls

Posted by: Sue Loh Windows CE APIs are implemented by a set of server processes. Besides the kernel...

Author: ce_base Date: 02/02/2006

CEDB vs. EDB

Posted by: Sue Loh CEDB was created as a lightweight database API for Windows CE. A long time back,...

Author: ce_base Date: 02/02/2006

Dumping Registry Hives and CEDB Database Volumes

Posted by: Sue Loh Once in a while people ask how to find out what's inside the boot.hv or other .hv...

Author: ce_base Date: 01/30/2006

A Tour of Windows CE Memory Tools

Posted by: Sue Loh This list of tools completes what I started with my perf tool list...

Author: ce_base Date: 01/11/2006

Tips for Writing a File System Filter

There have been a few questions posted to the newsgroup over the past few months on the scope the...

Author: ce_base Date: 12/01/2005

Introduction: Ariane Jansen

After growing up in sunny San Diego and attending college in snowy New Jersey I now live in the...

Author: ce_base Date: 12/01/2005

Tips for using Breakpoints

Posted by: Sue Loh I've been working with one of our customers the last couple of days, and found...

Author: ce_base Date: 11/30/2005

Mobile & Wireless Research Funding Initiative

Posted by: Sue Loh On a similar note, I learned today that Microsoft Research is currently accepting...

Author: ce_base Date: 11/16/2005

Windows Embedded Student ChallengE 2006

Posted by: Sue Loh Registration is now open for the 2006 Windows ChallengE competition, and closes...

Author: ce_base Date: 11/16/2005

Shared Heap Pitfalls

Posted by: Sue Loh I just saw someone on our newsgroups make a recommendation that to get past the...

Author: ce_base Date: 09/29/2005

CD/DVD-ROM drive doesn't mount when using the Hive-Based registry

We received the following question today on our Base Team Blog email alias. I figured it would be...

Author: ce_base Date: 09/29/2005

Flush with care

Posted by: Sue Loh I would like to add some comments to extend what was said on a recent post on the...

Author: ce_base Date: 09/26/2005

POOM replication on WM5

Posted by: Sue Loh I just recently learned that EDB, the database engine that is used for most of...

Author: ce_base Date: 09/23/2005

OS updates and the hive-based registry

Posted by: Sue Loh I attempted to document this behavior in the file that has become...

Author: ce_base Date: 09/22/2005

Persisting PIM data

Posted by: Sue Loh I'm posting this information because for some reason it falls out of my head like...

Author: ce_base Date: 09/15/2005

Tools -> Options -> Build

Posted by: Sue Loh If you have just done an install of Platform Builder, and opened it for the first...

Author: ce_base Date: 09/15/2005

Fun question: How many people work on Windows CE?

Posted by: Sue Loh C'mon. Give it a guess. How many jelly beans are in the jar? I want to know what...

Author: ce_base Date: 09/08/2005

Readlog summary output: process run times

Posted by: Sue Loh Today I got a question about the readlog summary output: When using the most...

Author: ce_base Date: 09/01/2005

Practical use of RAM beyond 512MB

Posted By: Sue Loh I actually got a fourth question from Gursharan, but it is a separate topic so...

Author: ce_base Date: 08/31/2005

Interacting with FSDMGR

In interacting with the FSDMGR and its helper functions, there are two pseudo-handle types that will...