Windows XPe vs. Windows CE - whats the difference?

Posted: 02-23-2007, 01:14 PM

Thomas Zangl

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Hi!

My client asks me to do some calculations for the move from Windows XPe
to Windows CE 6.0.

Before that, I need to check if it is feasible and if we have to make
changes to our existing application.

Our requirements are as follows:

* x86 support
* Support of Windows XP native hardware drivers (VGA, I/O)
* DirectX and DirectMedia

We are using some sort of all-in-one mainboard with sound, VGA, network,
USB, etc. onboard and a 512MB flash disk for storage. The device is
equiped with 128MB RAM.

The application we are running on XPe is basically some sort of a game
using DirectX for graphics and sound and some special (mainboard
specific) I/O driver for the user interface.

Is it feasible to move to WinCE? How about driver compatability? AFAIK
the source code of the I/O driver is not available but we have it in
binary form for XPe.

Any comments welcome!

Best regards,
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Martin Grossen, eMVP [AVNET Silica]

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Re: Windows XPe vs. Windows CE - whats the difference?

Posted: 02-23-2007, 01:58 PM

Thomas,

Windows CE has not the full API32 support.
So drivers and Apps from the "normal" XP world
won't run on CE.

x86 architecture is supportet as well as the
directDraw and Mobile3D extensions.
(Not full DirectX)

You will need a lot of resources to port drivers and apps down to CE.

No way, if you don't have the source code.

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"Thomas Zangl" <usenet@tzis.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hi!
>
> My client asks me to do some calculations for the move from Windows XPe to
> Windows CE 6.0.
>
> Before that, I need to check if it is feasible and if we have to make
> changes to our existing application.
>
> Our requirements are as follows:
>
> * x86 support
> * Support of Windows XP native hardware drivers (VGA, I/O)
> * DirectX and DirectMedia
>
> We are using some sort of all-in-one mainboard with sound, VGA, network,
> USB, etc. onboard and a 512MB flash disk for storage. The device is
> equiped with 128MB RAM.
>
> The application we are running on XPe is basically some sort of a game
> using DirectX for graphics and sound and some special (mainboard specific)
> I/O driver for the user interface.
>
> Is it feasible to move to WinCE? How about driver compatability? AFAIK the
> source code of the I/O driver is not available but we have it in binary
> form for XPe.
>
> Any comments welcome!
>
> Best regards,
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> ,yours Thomas Zangl - thomas@tzis.net - http://www.tzis.net/ -
> - Freelancer - IT Consulting & Software Development -
> Use Y.A.M.C! now! Get it at http://www.borg-kindberg.ac.at/yamc/

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Thomas Zangl

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Re: Windows XPe vs. Windows CE - whats the difference?

Posted: 02-23-2007, 02:59 PM

Martin Grossen, eMVP [AVNET Silica] wrote:

Hi!

> Windows CE has not the full API32 support.
> So drivers and Apps from the "normal" XP world
> won't run on CE.
>
> x86 architecture is supportet as well as the
> directDraw and Mobile3D extensions.
> (Not full DirectX)
>
> You will need a lot of resources to port drivers and apps down to CE.
>
> No way, if you don't have the source code.

Thank you. I already suspected that this would not be an easy task to
challenge. This confirmed my opinion to stick with XPe.

Best regards,
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