1. Visual Studio, Windows Embedded & Co.
Herzlich willkommen!
Visual Studio, Windows Embedded & Co.
Alexander Wechsler
Frank Prengel (

2. Visual Studio 2005 & Co. App Development for Windows CE Devices
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Visual Studio 2005 & Co. App Development for Windows CE Devices
Frank Prengel
Embedded Developer Evangelist
Microsoft Germany
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3. What is Windows CE? Microsoft’s Embedded Operating System
… designed for “small” devices
Virtual Memory, Multithreaded
Completely 32 bit
Real-time performance
Uses a subset of the Win32 API
Win32 defined by Windows XP
Legacy APIs removed
Less of a subset every version
Over 2,000 functions

4. What is Windows CE? Componentizable
OEMs define what parts of the OS to use
Over 500 components available
Multiple CPU architectures supported
SH4, MIPs, x86, ARM
OS is CPU agnostic
Not dependent on x86 compatible PCs
Not dependent on PC memory map
Not dependent on specific PC hardware

5. Windows CE Architecture
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Windows CE Architecture
Microsoft
OEM
ISV, OEM
Applications
Embedded Shell
WIN32 APIs
COREDLL, WINSOCK, OLE, COMMCTRL, COMMDLG, WININET, TAPI
Windows CE Shell Services
Remote Connectivity
Standard architecture slide deck.
Kernel
Library
IrDA
GWES
Device Manager
File System
Manager
TCP/IP
OAL
Bootloader
Drivers
Device drivers
File drivers
OEM Hardware
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6. Windows CE Shared Source Program
Shared Source Public
Access to over 2.5 M lines of source code
Ability to create commercial derivatives
Available in all versions of Windows CE worldwide
Academic edition for courseware creation
Shared Source Premium
More source available
Limited access
Available only in eligible countries

7. Licencing Windows CE 5.0 CORE PRO PRO PLUS AVI Filter
ActiveSync (Inbox Sync and Pocket Outlook Database Sync)
Microsoft Excel Viewer
Bluetooth Gateway
AV Renderer Sample
Microsoft Image Viewer
Digital Rights Management (DRM)
AYGShell API Set
Microsoft PDF Viewer
DRM license acquisition OCX
Bluetooth LAP and Configuration Utility
Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer
Embedded Database (EDB)
File Server (10 connection limit)
Microsoft Word Viewer
File Server (2 connection limit)
Help
 * Includes all components plus viewers above
Jscript
Internet Explorer (full browser and Pocket IE)
VBScript
Inbox
Windows Error Reporting
Pocket Outlook Object Model API
*All existing Core components
RAS/PPTP Server
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
Standard SDK for Windows CE (AYG)
Streaming Media Playback
Transcriber Handwriting Recognition Engine and Application
Windows Messenger
Windows Media Player (WMP) application
Windows Thin Client Shell
WMA,WMV, and MP3 Streaming (via WMP)
WordPad

8. Device Under Development
Developing a CE 5.0 Device
BSP
(OAL, Boot Loader, Drivers)
Embedded Visual C++
Standard SDK
Platform Builder
Visual Studio 2005
Export SDK
Configuration
Build
Device Under Development
Download
Debug
Device Emulation

9. Development Tools for CE
Platform
Builder
eMbedded
Visual C++
Visual Studio
2005
Native Applications
Managed Applications
C/C++
C# / VB.NET
Win32
.NET Compact
Framework 2.0
Windows CE 5.0 Operating System

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Platform Builder
Builds the OS from source code + binary libraries
Can Build C/C++ applications
Reduced IDE Code editor support
Kernel debugger
Remote Tools
Emulator
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11. eMbedded Visual C/C++ 4.0 Similar to Microsoft Visual C++ V6.0
Source code branch from VS6
Special features specific to Windows CE
Built in compilers and linkers for supported processors
Debug tools, remote tools, and platform manager
Emulation environment to develop without device
Support for CE 5.0 w/ SP4 & SDK

12. eVC++ Support Life Cycle
First released: 4/4/2002
Mainstream support ends: 6/30/2007
Public download ends: June 2007
Extended support ends: 6/30/2009
Online support ends: 6/30/2013

13. Visual Studio 2005 “Personalized productivity”
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Visual Studio 2005 “Personalized productivity”
Testers
Architects
Enterprise Devs
Consultants
Professionals
VB6 Devs
Part-Timers
Hobbyists
Students
Enthusiasts
Novices
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14. Visual Studio 2005 Device development w/ Standard Edition & above
Replaces Visual Studio .NET for "managed" development
CF 1.0 & 2.0
Replaces eMbedded Visual C++ for native development
MFC 8.0, ATL 8.0, STL, CRT
New tools (designer, data, ...)
New device emulator
Deployment & Signing

15. Visual Studio 2005 New Features
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Visual Studio 2005 New Features
Parity with desktop development
Support for Multiple Platforms
Windows Mobile 2003 SE; Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows CE 5.0
Platform Switching
Support Compact Framework v1.0 and v2.0
Upgrade from v1.0 to v2.0
New Managed Device Controls in v2.0
Enhanced WYSIWYG Forms Designers
Skins, Orientations, Rotations
New Managed Libraries in Windows Mobile 5.0
Microsoft Device Emulator
Device Emulator Manager
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More Enhancements
Device Development in C/C++
Migrate projects from eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0
Updated Device Compilers and Native Libraries
Orders of magnitude faster native debugger
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition
Remote Tools for Devices
Code Snippets
Support for Device CAB (Setup) Projects
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17. WinCE vs Windows Mobile
WinCE 3.0  PPC 2000, PPC 2002, SP 2002
WinCE 4.2  WM 2003, WM 2003 SE
WinCE 5.0  WM 5.0

18. Runtime support CE - CF CF 2.0 CF 1.0 WinCE 5.0 + (RTM) +
o (SP1)
PPC 2000, 2002 -
+ (RAM)
SP 2002
PPC 2003, SE
+ (ROM)
SP 2003, SE
WM 5.0

19. Tool support CE - CF CF 2.0 CF 1.0 WinCE 5.0 VS2005 - WinCE 4.1, 4.2
PPC 2000, 2002
SP 2002
WM 2003, SE
VS2005, 2003+SDK
WM 5.0
VS2005+SDK

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.NET Compact Framework
Visual
Studio FX
Rich class libraries to make your life easy!
GUI: Forms
GUI: Drawing (2D & 3D)
Collections
IO, Networking, Crypto
Native interop
Web services
Data & Xml
Globalization
CLR
Type system
Loader
JIT Compiler
Execution Engine provides typesafe runtime for managed code
Garbage collector
Debugger
Windows CE
Low level operating system-specific functionality
Threads
Memory
File I/O
Networking
Localization
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21. CF – Perf. comparison V1 V1 SP2 V2 Beta1 Beta2+
Pocket PC 2003, XScale 400MHz V1
V1 SP2 V2
Beta1
Beta2+
Method Calls (Calls/sec)
3.7M
7.1M
8.1M
Virtual Calls (Calls/sec)
2.4M
2.7M
5.6M
Simple P/Invoke (Calls/sec)
733K
1.7M
Primes (to 1500) (iterations/sec)
562
832
853
GC Small (8 bytes) (Bytes/sec) 1M 7M
7.5M
GC Array (100 int’s) (Bytes/sec)
25M
43M
112M
XML Text Reader 200KB (seconds)
1.7
1.2
0.72
0.69
DataSet (static data) 4 tables, 1000 records (seconds)
13.1
6.6
7.3
3.3
DataSet (ReadXml) 3 tables, 100 records (seconds)
12.3
6.5
5.2
4.4
Larger = Better
Smaller = Better

22. Native Development - Facts
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Native Development - Facts
Debugging
Attach to Process
Just-in-time (JIT)
Post-mortem (kdump)
Code Signing
Adding test certificates
Signing and provisioning
Resource Editor
ActiveX control development
Softkey menus
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Debugger
Feature set
Breakpoints, stepping, break all
Autos, locals, registers
Memory window, disassembly (native only)
Threads, call stack, modules
Attach, detach, JIT (native only)
Unsupported
Interoperability debugging
Driver development
Data breakpoints
Edit and continue
Let us begin with an overview of the device debugger.
The core debugger functionality will be present, and on par with existing device tools.
For the most part, this will be very similar to the desktop debugger experience.
Native code disassembly will be available for all supported CPUs.
Attach will be supported for both Native and Managed, through the attach to process dialog.
// In eVC, the process EXE was required for attach.
// For Whidbey, only the executable images for the code of interest are needed, to provide rich debugging.
// When the executable and dlls are unavailable, the debugging experience degrades similar to the desktop.
Process detach is new to both Native and Managed in Whidbey.
Just In Time Debugging is also available for Native code only.
JIT debug is an installable feature per device, via an option in the IDE
JIT works much like attach to process when an exception occurs on the device.
Now let us discuss the unsupported functionality.
Interop debugging allows logical transition between native and managed code in the same application and debug session.
Providing this type of debugging is difficult, due to the complex interactions between the native debugger and the managed runtime.
Due to scheduling constraints and the magnitude of the problem, we will not ship an interop device debugger in whidbey.
Driver Development will require Platform Builder
Special consideration must be given to driver development, due to the implementation on CE.
Suspending the driver process on CE also stops services critical to connectivity.
Data Breakpoints, due lack of hardware support on CE targets, will be unavailable.
Most x86 CPUs have special debugger support to trap memory accesses.
However, most CE supported embedded CPUs do not provide this support.
The biggest difference you’ll see however is the stability and performance improvements.
Order of magnitude performance in stepping.
Already the fastest debugger to enter break-mode. [Less than 1 second between debug-launch to step into Main across the USB wire.]
The perf goal is to average less than 0.5 per step. [Already achieved!]
eVC averages about 3 ~ 5 seconds per step.
eVC could take more than 13 seconds to step-in in some, common scenarios.
Order of magnitude performance in expression evaluations.
Drag-and-Drop and Expansion of any expressions in and onto any debugger windows are nearly instantaneous.
The number of debugger windows open would not degrade stepping performance. [eVC + Native Desktop Debugger have this problem]
The way we’ve achieved this is by re-architechting the native device debugger, including:
1>     Maximize desktop CPU processing power whenever possible and applicable. (e.g., call-stack enumeration is performed on the desktop-side)
2>     Minimize device CPU compute-bound tasks whenever possible and applicable.
3>     Redesigned the desktop-device debugger protocol to reduce unnecessary chatting ness.
5>     Implementing a sophisticated remote layer in our debug engine to cache thread-contexts and memory on-demand.
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24. Native Development - Facts
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Native Development - Facts
Emulator
ActiveSync
Folder sharing
Save State
Multi-platform development
High Resolution and Orientation awareness
Command line building
Property Sheets
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Feature Comparison
x86 Emulator
Device Emulator
ARM920TDMI instructions
Samsung SMDK2410 board: PCMCIA, NAND Flash, LCD, touchscreen, NE2000 and CS8900 netcards, keyboard, 3 UARTs, audio
Extends the SMDK2410, adding resizable display, “DMA” interface, resizable RAM (up to 256meg)
Faster, more robust Folder Sharing
Runs on 64-bit Windows
Instruction set is a subset of the host PC’s instruction set
Emulates a CEPC board: ISA, PCI busses, basic video, keyboard, mouse, audio, network adapter, etc.
Extends the CEPC, adding Folder Sharing, “DMA” interface, and resizable display
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26. Mixed Projects
Possible to mix & match native & managed projects in one solution
Be sure to target the same platform...
Build order, dependencies, deployment dirs, etc., can be specified
No seamless debugging at this point
Can't attach native & managed debugger at the same time
Set reg key to enable attaching the managed debugger to a running process

27. REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ .NETCompactFramework\Managed Debugger]
"AttachEnabled"=dword:

28. SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition
Small, high-performance database
Provides replication, sync, transactions, encryption
SqlCeResultSet: scrollable updateable cursor
SQL 2005 management tools
VS2005 integration
Supported by CF 2.0 & Windows CE 5.0

29. What's next? CF 2.0 support for WinCE 4.2
no tools support, though...
WinCE 5.0 device emulator image & BSP for PB 5.0
Device emulator v2+
Better integration b/w PB & VS

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Emulator v2+
Break apart the monolith DeviceEmulator.exe into a collection of DLLs
Pluggable CPU emulators
Pluggable motherboard emulators
Pluggable peripheral devices
Layer the peripheral device emulation code
One virtual device can have multiple Windows-side implementations i.e., emulated UART could plug into code that binds to a Windows COMx: port, or to a Windows file, or to a console window
Virtual USB and PCMCIA devices plug into virtual controllers
Testability – COM interfaces to give test automation access the emulator’s peripherals
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31. Windows Embedded Roadmap
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Windows Embedded Roadmap
2005
2005/2006
2006+
SP2
Feature Pack 1
Feature Pack
v. Next
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32. Windows CE Shared Source Program
Shared Source Public
Access to over 2.5 M lines of source code
Ability to create commercial derivatives
Available in all versions of Windows CE worldwide
Academic edition for courseware creation
Shared Source Premium
More source available
Limited access
Available only in eligible countries

33. Licencing Windows CE 5.0 CORE PRO PRO PLUS AVI Filter
ActiveSync (Inbox Sync and Pocket Outlook Database Sync)
Microsoft Excel Viewer
Bluetooth Gateway
AV Renderer Sample
Microsoft Image Viewer
Digital Rights Management (DRM)
AYGShell API Set
Microsoft PDF Viewer
DRM license acquisition OCX
Bluetooth LAP and Configuration Utility
Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer
Embedded Database (EDB)
File Server (10 connection limit)
Microsoft Word Viewer
File Server (2 connection limit)
Help
 * Includes all components plus viewers above
Jscript
Internet Explorer (full browser and Pocket IE)
VBScript
Inbox
Windows Error Reporting
Pocket Outlook Object Model API
*All existing Core components
RAS/PPTP Server
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
Standard SDK for Windows CE (AYG)
Streaming Media Playback
Transcriber Handwriting Recognition Engine and Application
Windows Messenger
Windows Media Player (WMP) application
Windows Thin Client Shell
WMA,WMV, and MP3 Streaming (via WMP)
WordPad

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Resources
Windows CE documentation
wce50oriWelcomeToWindowsCE.asp
Windows Embedded Partner Web Site
Get the Windows Embedded Introductory Kit
Embedded development
Windows CE development
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35. More Information

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This presentation is for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, in this summary.
© 2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
This presentation is for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, in this summary.