Re: Some broad questions

Q1 : depends on what you need in your device. Most of Silicon Vendors
provide eval board for their chip with WinCE BSP available

Q2 : SDK stands for "Standard development kit". It is basically the API of
your system you use to develop applications. The difference with Win32 is
that for wince, the SDK content varies depending on what you have into your
wince image, considering that Wince is a componentizable OS

Q3 : BSP stands for Board Support Package. It is basically a complete set of
drivers and configuration files allowing windows CE running on a specific
electronic board

Q4 : SV are generally providing the BSP for their board, allowing you
generating Windows CE image that run on the board, using PB

Q5 : That's a big stuff... Probably the best thing to start with is a
training allowing you understanding what is WinCe, what are the
capabilities, and how to deal with them

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"Robby" <Robby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
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Hi,

I am a little discouraged and confused.

I am a <newbie> in the embeded world. I have been programming in C using
the
WIN32 environment within the VC++ IDE. I eventually wish to program an
embeded application using a reference board which can support a WCE image.

I will probably go with Visual studio 5 and the platform builder along
with
the WCE OS. I am planning to program with native languages such as C/C++
with WIN32.

I have recently downloaded the trial version of Embeded WCE from the
microsoft site, and it installed WCE components and platform builder. I
have
not started to explore it though.

*QUESTIONS*

Q1-Can someone suggest me a vendor that can sell me a reference board that
would complement the programming tools I currently have. (Visual
studio/EVC++)

Q2-What is exactly an SDK?

Q3-I have watched Mike Halls video at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wceintro5/html/wce50tutplatformbuildertutorials.asp

I viewed the last tutorial which is on WCE and he says a phrase I don't
quite understand. If you wish to view it, the phrase starts at 2 minutes
and
52 seconds of the video. Here is the phrase:

"The operating system its self is abstracted away from the in line
hardware
so in effect the components you choose from the WCE catalogue are layered
on
top of the appropriate BSP at build time."

I don't know what a BSP is and what does he mean by this phrase?

Q4-When vendors sell their reference boards, do they also sell you their
version of programming tools which replaces "Visual stidio/EVC++". Also do
they sell you their version of platform builder?

In other words, can I just buy the board that they sell and use Microsoft
programming tools to create my application?

Q5-How would I know if WCE would have all the libraries neccessary for
what
I want to do, ex: Play music, video and WIFI and hwo does the reference
board
relate to these hardware capabilities?

Thanking you in advance for your time!

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Best regards
Robert


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