Vortex86DX-MSJK Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 Jump Start Rev 2.2
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Part 1 –
Development Environment Overview
All CE 6.0 development tasks are supported within the VS2005 IDE, a developer friendly, efficient and
intuitive development environment with templates and wizard to help simplify complicate development
tasks.
Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3
Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 (CE 6.0) is a hard Real-time operating system with ability to handle
32,000 concurrent processes and 2GB memory footprint for each process. CE 6.0 delivers reliable,
secure performance in a small footprint package along with the latest networking, multimedia and
communications technologies. CE 6.0 provides broad range of device support with enhanced
features, including robust file system, Web services for device, voice over IP phone, network
gateway configurations, platform development tool enhancements, greater application
compatibility with other Windows Embedded CE based devices, Internet Explorer, Windows Media
CODECs, Microsoft .NET Compact Framework, and a number of other newly supported protocols
and services.
In addition to improvement to the OS and development tool, the CE 6.0 R3 release added the
following components:
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Silverlight for Windows Embedded
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Flash Lite Browser plug-in to render Flash contents
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Touch and Gesture
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Microsoft Office application files viewers
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PDF file viewer
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QQ Messenger
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Connection Manager
Combining large pool of production quality BSP, device drivers, programming libraries and efficient
development tools, CE 6.0 provides the ideal Rapid Application Development environment to help
create the next generation of smart, media rich, connected and service oriented devices. For more
information about CE 6.0, visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/products/windowsce/default.mspx
Windows Embedded CE 6.0 – Platform Builder
Platform Builder is the development tool used to develop CE 6.0 OS design project and generate
custom CE 6.0 OS runtime image from the OS design project. It also provides the remote tools to
debug CE 6.0 OS runtime image on a target device, built with Kernel Independent Transport Layer
(KITL) enabled.
Windows Embedded CE Platform Builder releases prior to CE 6.0 are standalone development tool.
For the CE 6.0 release, Platform Builder is a plug-in to the VS2005 IDE, and requires the VS2005 IDE
to function.
