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Common Terminology
To minimize the need to write long description to identify the product or component, it’s a common
practice for developer in different industry to use abbreviated key word. To the new comer, without
knowing the terminology used and what the abbreviated key words represent can cause quite a bit
of confusion.
The following table contains abbreviation for some of the common key words used in the CE 6.0
development environment and within this jump start kit:
Abbreviation/ key word
Description and Representation
CE 6.0
“Windows Embedded CE 6.0”, “Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2” and
“Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3”
VS2005
Visual Studio 2005
VS2008
Visual Studio 2008
IDE
Integrated Development Environment
BSP
Board Support Package: A group of Windows Embedded CE software
components that includes the OEM adaptation layer code, device drivers
and configuration files, needed to create the OS design project to
generate OS runtime image for the targeted hardware.
OAL
OEM Adaptation Layer
Component
Component can be a device driver, BSP, programming library,
application, utility, configuration settings, fonts, etc... The OS design is
made up by a group of components.
Catalog
The component catalog lists all of the components provided by Platform
Builder and installed 3
rd
party components. The component catalog
provides the interface to add components to the OS design project and
remove components from the project. This is also the interface to view
which components are included to the OS design project.
OS design
OS design is a Platform Builder project, containing components that
make up the OS runtime image. Windows Embedded CE OS runtime
image is generated from an OS design project.
Hardware Platform
Refer to the physical hardware for running the CE 6.0 OS and
application, also refer to as the target device.
Target Device
Refer to the device used in the CE 6.0 development environment. When
working on exercise using an emulator, the emulator is the target
device. Virtual PC can be a target device for the CE 6.0 development
environment. For the exercise in this guide, the VDX-6326 SBC is the
target device.
SBC
Short for Single-Board-Computer.
OS Runtime Image
The binary file generated from the OS design project to deploy to the
target device.
Release Directory or
Build Release Directory
Referring to the directory where all files related to the OS design
projects are placed by the build tools prior to compiling the OS runtime
image.
