Customizing Power Manager for SetSystemPowerState()
Vinoth - Microsoft® Most Valuable Professional (MVP)Changing the system state can be as simple as a cup of tea! by calling SetSystemPowerstate() API. But not all power states can be allowed to set through this API…
Creating an effective image viewer in Windows CE
There are some cases where we may need to develop a DLL or application to show the images on the devices. For example, an Image viewer will be needed to…
Handling Real Time Tasks in Windows CE
There are certain use cases - we may have to handle the non-standard custom interface to communicate between the processor and the hardware. An example is controlling the brightness of…
Increasing the Microsoft X86 BIOS Bootloader (BLDR) Size
Salim Javed - Microsoft® Certified Technology SpecialistIntroduction: I am just bringing the BLDR size issues we faced when we tried to add more functionalities to the X86 bootloader (BLDR). As per the current X86…
INVOKING KEYBOARD PANEL
Simple method to invoke the software keyboard panel when edit box or other controls clicked (i)BOOL SHInitExtraControls(void); The above function has to be called before creating the dialog box, in…
Achieving a fully functional Webserver in Windows CE
Suresh Madhu - Microsoft® Certified Technology SpecialistWhen you implement a web server on Windows CE, developers would want to implement most of the features available with web servers on PC platforms. However, this is not the…
OMAP 35x Camera ISP
Prabu Kumar - Microsoft® Most Valuable Professional (MVP)Recently, we had some queries on how to program the OMAP 35x ISP in Windows CE for a sensor that doesn’t have the ISP inside it. As we know that…
Production ready Windows CE BSP
HarishankkarRecently, I met a prospect who asked me on what is meant by production ready Wince BSP for a reference design and why is there so much differences in the…
Sharing I2C bus between OAL RTC part and Driver part on Windows CE
Real Time Clock or RTC is an essential component in all embedded systems. Though all the modern day CPUs have inbuilt RTC, designers are comfortable with external RTC for some…