Mark your calendar for "Windows XP Embedded SP2 Feature Pack 2007 Live Public Chat!" on August 15

[Wendy Shi [MS]]

Please mark your calendar for the live chat on Windows XP Embedded SP2
Feature Pack 2007 with the Embedded Windows product team: 10:00-11:00AM
Pacific Time, Tusday, August 15th, 2006.

This new feature pack provides new features, such as USB Boot, and
enhancements to existing features and tools, such as Footprint Reduction and
Console Application. You will meet the Developers, Test Engineers and
Program Managers of the feature pack and get your comments and questions
heard and answered in real time! Please come and help us improve the
product!

You can join the chat through MSDN chat site at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/.

Wendy

 

[Luke Alcatel]

Do you mean "console administration" rather than "console application?" I
have a real need for console administration and I've seen Sean Liming's
article:
http://www.seanliming.com/Docs/NTE_SCA_for_XPE.pdf
which describes a method that depends on borrowing pieces from NT Embedded.
Has anyone implemented this component who is willing to share? Is there a
licensing problem in making this component generally available to XPe users?

Luke

 

[Wendy Shi [MS]]

Luke,

No, the "Concole Application" is not the "Console Administration". It's
actually a powerful command-line tool that enables developers to script and
automate many of the functions provided by the Embedded Studio Tools,
including creating, modifying and building configurations, importing
components, and researching component relationships. You can find more about
what's inside the Feature Pack inthe our connect site after you sign up. The
instructions on how to sign up are available on our team blog site:
http://blogs.msdn.com/embedded/archive/2006/07/10/660998.aspx.

Please file a feature request bug through our connect site for the "Console
Administration" component. That way, the whole development team will see the
request and address it.

Wendy Shi
Program Manager
Embedded Windows