Windows Embedded CE Features (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)

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1/6/2010

Windows Embedded CE offers a rich set of features that you can use to customize a platform. Component services, networking capabilities, multimedia support, and many other capabilities are contained within individual operating system features.

You can choose from a wide range of operating system features through the catalog items in Platform Builder. You can build a customized operating system design from a combination of these catalog items. Some catalog items require that other catalog items be present in your operating system design. Platform Builder automatically determines dependencies and adds the appropriate supporting catalog items to your operating system design.

  • Applications and Services
    Describes the operating system functionality that is available in Windows Embedded CE for developing applications and services.
  • Audio
    Describes waveform audio functionality.
  • Browser Applications
    Describes the browser application that can be included with Windows Embedded CE.
  • CellCore
    Provides conceptual and reference information for cellular phone technologies.
  • Connection Manager
    Provides conceptual and reference information for managing network connections.
  • Core OS Services
    Describes the core operating system services that are available in Windows Embedded CE. Core operating system services contain information on the Windows Embedded CE kernel and other features common to all Windows Embedded CE operating system designs. The core operating system services enable low-level tasks such as process, thread, and memory management.
  • Device Management
    Provides conceptual and reference information for technologies related to remotely distributing software, keeping track of software and hardware, managing inventory, and configuring target devices.
  • Encoded Media
    Provide conceptual and reference information for technologies for working with media files and streams that contain compressed data.
  • Fonts
    Provides an overview of fonts and font technologies that are supported in Windows Embedded CE. Describes how you can replace fonts, specify a directory from which the operating system should load fonts, and change the font size for the Help system. Also describes how you can enable ClearType, antialiased fonts, linked fonts, end-user-defined-characters (EUDC), and line breaking for Asian fonts.
  • Graphics
    Provides reference and conceptual information for technologies for graphics displays.
  • International
    Describes support in Windows Embedded CE for general locale services and locale-specific support for certain key capabilities.
  • Kernel
    Provides information about the base OS functionality of Windows Embedded CE–based devices.
  • Networking - Core
    Provides conceptual and reference information about general networking technologies.
  • Networking - Remote
    Provides conceptual and reference information for networking technologies that deal with remote access and telephony.
  • Networking - Wireless
    Provides conceptual and reference information about wireless networking technologies.
  • Power Management
    Provides conceptual and reference information for device power management.
  • Security for Windows Embedded CE
    Provides conceptual and reference information for technologies intended to help improve the security of your devices or applications.
  • Servers
    Provides conceptual and reference information for server technologies.
  • Shell, GWES, and User Interface
    Provides a description of the shell and user interface technologies in Windows Embedded CE. These include the functionality that is necessary for a user to interact with a Windows Embedded CE-based device and the underlying operating system.
  • XML
    Provides conceptual and reference information about XML.
  • Bringing Up a Hardware Platform
    Provides detailed information about creating a board support package (BSP) and bringing up a Windows Embedded CE-based device. Explains how to use the sample BSPs provided in Windows Embedded CE. Provides information about finding information on how to order hardware platforms for the sample BSPs.
  • Developing a Device Driver
    Provides an overview of Windows Embedded CE drivers and describes the typical processes used for developing device drivers for a Windows Embedded CE-based device.
  • Developing an OS Design
    Describes how to use Platform Builder to create and customize an operating system design that you can use to build a run-time image for download to a target device. Includes information about creating software development kits.
  • Developing a Target Device
    Describes how to use a design template to create an operating system design that you can customize for your target device.
  • Error Reporting
    Describes Windows Embedded CE error reporting, which allows a device to save key information about the state of the machine at the time that the machine or an application becomes unresponsive or stops functioning.