Re: Some broad questions

It sounds to me like what you want is a board that already runs Windows CE
and which you can use to write *applications* for, not something for which
you want to configure and install a custom version of the operating system.
If that's the case, depending on which version of Windows CE the target
hardware runs, you may or may not be able to use VS2005 to write code for
it.

If you can clarify what exactly you're trying to do, we might be able to
point you to one or a few sources of hardware that would work for you. Is
this a school project or what? If so, what are you supposed to do in the
project? If not, what's the job you are working on?

A nice cheap platform for software development of applications is a Pocket
PC. If you buy a new one, it runs a customized version of Windows CE 5.0
with some other applications, called Windows Mobile 5. For that, you can
use VS2005 for development and C/C++, C#, or VB.NET.

Paul T.

"Robby" <Robby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2DCA00D6-46A1-4141-9545-B1CE5B99C115@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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!

--
Best regards
Robert


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