Windows CE.NET System Reqts

[Kannan Kalyanaraman]

Hi All, With all these discussions about PDA/CE, I wanted to check out Windows CE.NET at MSDN and stumbled across this piece where it says it needs 14GB HDD space for complete installation. I was just wondering what can possibly be there on those 14 GB unless there is some typo.....:confused: Assuming that the info is true, have anyone come across a better sys. reqts (for Hard Disk space) than this one. Check out this link System Requirements For Windows CE.NET Cheers Kannan

[Nish Nishant]

I don't think there is any existing Palm device that is capable of 14 GB storage. They probably meant 14 MB Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

[Kannan Kalyanaraman]

I think the config. is for development environment for developing applications that run on CE devices which includes stuff. like platform builder, emulation kit etc. But 14GB is still huge. Nish I remember sometime back u mentioned something about downloading some stuff relating to CE, was it difft. from this one. Cheers Kannan

[Nish Nishant]

Yeah, that was for Win CE too but not the .NET version. I finally downloaded Microsoft embedded tools 3.0 [which has embedded VC and embedded VB] Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

[Chris Maunder]

Kannan Kalyanaraman wrote: I was just wondering what can possibly be there on those 14 GB A really big, really colourful bitmap for the splash screen? cheers, Chris Maunder

[Nish Nishant]

uncompressed BMP 24-bit color @ 12000x8000 resolution Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

[Brad Manske]

The Win CE.NET portion is a very tiny fraction of the entire package. The platform builder is a huge piece of software for those configuring the embedded OS for a target piece of hardware. Think of it this way. There is a core set of tools, then support for various processors. Each processor has its own set of compilers, libraries (compiled in various ways). Libraries further subdivide into Win32, MFC and now... .NET. It takes 700 to 900 Meg for a full installation of each processor that you want to support. It has the ability to generate endless flavors of the core operating system and can export an SDK that contains the compilers, header files, and libraries that contain only the information selected in the build. What you are probably looking for is an exported SDK for the PocketPC that includes the .NET components. I'm expecting a 25 Meg file when it is finally released. Brad Manske

[Kannan Kalyanaraman]

Hi, Thanks for enlightening me :) . Now I can sleep :-) Cheers Kannan