2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 9,400 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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How to Get USB Camera Working in Windows Embedded Compact 7

As many of you might be using the USB camera on their WinCE device, so for testing this USB camera on the wince device Microsoft had released the source code for the driver. Check in the link for the source of Windows Embedded CE 6.0 version.

To get the USB camera working under WinCE 6.0,check out my other post on the same topic.

So now in order to get the same source code working in Windows Embedded compact 7,it need few changes in the driver because of few additions in the WEC7.To see what are the changes and to get camera working under WEC7,check out my blog post in the following link.

http://www.e-consystems.com/blog/camera/?p=740

Have fun in playing around with USB camera on WEC7.

Windows CE Boot Time

One of the waving feature of "Windows 8" is the 8 sec boot time.As they said it really boots in 8 sec in my PC.That is a cool one!!!!!!!

Since we are working in Windows Embedded OSes it raises the question.

"What is the least time for WinCE boot with some application?"

Check out the following blog post in which Windows Embedded CE 6.0 boots in 3 sec and starts streaming the camera frames live in the LCD.

http://www.e-consystems.com/blog/windowsce/?p=750

Also keeping watching the e-con Systems blog in the coming weeks for interesting blogs.RSS feed for the Windows CE blog is

http://www.e-consystems.com/blog/windowsce/?feed=rss

Building a Simple Camera DirectShow Filter graph Application in WEC7

Many of you might have noted that your WinCE 6.0 DirectShow camera application was not working with Windows Embedded Compact 7(WEC7). The reason is "In the newly launched Windows Embedded Compact 7 OS, the Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) filter replaces the DirectShow Video renderer filter as a default video renderer".

In this post I will try to give basic idea to start writing the Simple DirectShow Camera application on WEC7 and also "How to" start with the newly added component in WEC7 (i.e., Video Mixing Renderer (VMR)).

One more important thing is Windows Embedded CE 6.0 DirectShow camera Application will not work on Windows Embedded Compact (WEC7) without the changes which I had done in this post.So check out the post here.

http://www.e-consystems.com/blog/windowsce/?p=697

Also check out this codeplex project for the application source code which I mentioned in the above post.

http://dshowcamerawec7.codeplex.com

This is the same application which I uploaded before for  post Working with display controller using DDraw APIs in WinCE / Windows Mobile with the modifications done to work on WEC7.

eImageViewer- Free Image Viewer for Windows Embedded CE 6.0

Hi Guys,

e-con Systems releases the availability of the eImageViewer, which is a Image viewing software for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3.

eImageViewer from e-con addresses the most common requirements for image viewing is aimed at being a default image viewing application for Windows CE and Windows Embedded Compact devices. This freeware application can be ported on Windows Mobile and Windows Phone operating systems. This application helps users in contrast to the Internet Explorer on the devices which allows only the basic image viewing features and is less user-friendly.

And also check out the features video of the same on the youtube link.

It is absolutely FREE to download and use it on your device .So start download immediately and enjoy browsing your favorite photos on your Windows Embedded CE devices.

Start evaluating and throw your comments!!!!!!!!!!!

How to get USB Camera working in WinCE 6.0

I have seen lot of people were trying to use camera on there WinCE 6.0 device.The easy way to get the camera working in WinCE device is by connecting to the USB Host interface which will be available in most of the recent WinCE device.So now the question is “How to get the USB Camera working in WinCE 6.0 device?”.For getting started for this question i have written a blog post,please check out the following link for the blog post. http://www.e-consystems.com/blog/windowsce/?p=628

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 7,400 times in 2010. That’s about 18 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 3 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 14 posts.

The busiest day of the year was July 14th with 61 views. The most popular post that day was WinCE 6.0 DirectShow Camera Driver Higher Resolution support.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were social.msdn.microsoft.com, en.wordpress.com, pocketpcjunkies.com and google.co.in.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for wince emulator, ioctl_ufn_change_current_client, usb camera driver windows ce problem with resolution, wince 6.0, and windows embedded ce 6.0 fundamentals.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

WinCE 6.0 DirectShow Camera Driver Higher Resolution support September 2008
12 comments

2

Connecting to WinCE 6.0 ARM Emulator using Active Sync October 2008
1 comment

3

USB Function driver dynamic Switching in WINCE October 2008
3 comments

4

Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Fundamentals free e-book from Microsoft October 2008

5

Playing Media File FULLSCREEN in CEPlayer.exe September 2008

Working with display controller using DDraw APIs in WinCE / Windows Mobile

I had seen few questions in the wince newsgroups about drawing text or drawing any bitmap over the camera video stream output render.I had thought of sharing my experience for this requirement.So I wrote this article with sample demo application and I hope this will help the community who are searching for a solution.

http://www.e-consystems.com/WindowsCE-Ddraw-api.asp

And also take a look at the application source of the sample which is described in the article.I had also created a project for this sample application in Codeplex server.If you have any comments or issues with this application please post it in this blog comments or in codeplex project discussion page,I will try to fix it.

http://ddrawwince.codeplex.com/

Windows Embedded Compact 7 Officially released!!!!!

Hey Guys,

Finally Windows Embedded Compact 7 had been officially released.Here is the press release.It is the future version of Windows Embedded CE 6.0.

One of the most wonderful feature in this release is kernel support for 3GB physical RAM and also supports ARMv7 assembly.

It has also got many new features like

* Internet Explorer 7 including support for Adobe Flash 10.1.

* Enhanced Media player with added codecs.

* Exchange 2010 AirSync.

* MultiTouch and gesture

and many more.It looks like most of the changes are on the user interface experience. I will try downloading the Compact 7 CTP release and try to get more information about the new features.

It has been released for developer community for testing the Windows Embedded Compact 7 features in the microsoft connect site.

Check out this Windows Embedded site for more details on Windows Embedded Compact 7 and also check out the videos which will show the new user experience and new features.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/products/windowsce/compact7.mspx

Start download and enjoy developing over Windows Embedded compact 7. Cheers!!!!!!!!!!

Check Out My Other Posts!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check out my other posts!!!

• Relation Between Visual Studio and Windows CE Versions

• Resolution Switching in DirectShow Camera Application

• OMAP 35x Camera ISP

• Mounting the RAMDISK in WINCE 6.0