MOC-2432 Developing Embedded Solutions for Microsoft Windows CE 3.0

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Developing Embedded Solutions for Microsoft Windows CE 3.0

Course 2432—Five days—Instructor-led

Introduction

This course teaches developers and system integrators to rapidly develop embedded solutions using Microsoft Windows® CE 3.0 operating system and tools.

At Course Completion

At the end of the course, students will be able to:

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Describe Windows CE and its architecture.

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Customize Windows CE by using Platform Builder 3.0.

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Debug a Windows CE Image.

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Develop an OEM Adaptation Layer (OAL).

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Develop device drivers.

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Develop a boot loader.

Microsoft Certified Professional Exams

This course will help the student prepare for the following Microsoft Certified Professional exam:

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There is no Microsoft Certified Professional exam associated with this course.

Prerequisites

This course requires that you meet the following prerequisites:

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Programming experience in C/C++

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Familiarity with the operation of hardware

Experience in the following will be helpful in completing this course, but are not a must:

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Win32 API Programming Experience

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Device Driver Development Experience

Course Materials

You will be provided with the following software for use in the classroom:

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Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation or Windows 2000 Professional

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Microsoft Platform Builder 3.0

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Microsoft Embedded Visual Tools 3.0

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Lab files

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Windows CE 3.0

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Explain the design goals of Windows CE.

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Compare the two operating systems: Windows CE and NT Embedded.

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Identifying the new Windows CE 3.0 issues.

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Describe the Windows CE architecture.

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Describe the key technologies, libraries, and tools supported by Windows CE.

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Describe the system memory architecture in Windows CE.

Module 2: Configuring Windows CE

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Describe the functionality of Platform Builder.

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Describe the life cycle of Platform Development.

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Describe how a Windows CE-device is setup and how an image is downloaded.

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Describe the different modifications that can be done to a platform as part of the configuration stage.

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Describe the build process used when configuring Windows CE.

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Add components to the Platform Builder Catalog.

Module 3: Preparing an Application Development Environment

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Export a Software Development Kit from Platform Builder 3.0

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Import an SDK into Embedded Visual C++ and Embedded Visual Basic

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Build a typical "Hello World" Win32 application and Dynamic Link Library.

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Understand how to build applications using the Unicode character set.

Module 4: Implementing an OEM Adaptation Layer

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Understand the role of the boot loader.

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Explain the role of an OAL.

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Describe the process of developing an OAL.

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Implement hardware initialization functions.

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Implement power management functions.

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Implement real-time clock and timer functions.

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Implement debug support functions.

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Implement kernel input/output functions.

Module 5: Implementing Real-Time Systems

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Define the terms related to real-time.

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Describe the Windows CE kernel features that relate to time-critical programming.

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Introduce the basics of dealing with threads and synchronization.

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Explain interrupt handling in Windows CE 3.0.

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Describe control of the scheduler in Windows CE 3.0.

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Discuss ways to measure and fine-tune time-critical operations.

Module 6: Debugging a Windows CE Image

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Use debug zones to control the output of debug messages.

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Setup Platform Builder for Debugging.

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Use the various IDE Debug Commands for debugging.

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Use the Platform Builder Integrated Kernel Debugger to trace the system code (e.g., device drivers, applications).

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Use other debugging techniques such as Logic Analyzers and Debug LEDs.

Module 7: Implementing a Device Driver

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Describe the Windows CE Architecture

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Describe device driver memory management.

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Describe the common Win32® API functions used in implementing device drivers - interrupt-related functions, memory management functions, and power management functions.

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Describe and implement stream interface device drivers.

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Describe and implement file system drivers.

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Describe and implement display device drivers.

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Describe the role of native device drivers and implement native device drivers using the MDD/PDD layered architecture.

Module 8: Connecting Network Enabled Windows CE Devices

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List the new and enhanced networking features added in Windows CE 3.0.

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Describe the different kinds of web clients that are supported by the Windows CE 3.0.

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Describe the web server support in Windows CE 3.0.

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Configure COM and DCOM by using Platform Builder.

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Explain the networking API support including Sockets and WinInet, in Windows CE 3.0.

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Discuss the Windows CE 3.0 support for MSMQ.

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Discuss the Windows CE 3.0 support for SNMP.