Developing OS Design Elements (Windows CE 5.0)

After you have developed the core elements of your BSP, you can add and customize other elements of your OS design. The following topics can help you further develop elements of your OS design.

In This Section

  • Windows CE Features
    Provides links and information about items that you can select in the Catalog and functionality that you can include in your OS designs.
  • Board Support Package Overview
    Provides information about the elements that are included in a BSP. Includes an overview of the BSP tools that are available in Platform Builder. Lists the different device driver libraries that are shipped in Platform Builder to assist you in creating a BSP.
  • Shell OS Design Development
    Provides information about customizing the shell, shell modules and components, and installing a shell.
  • Enhancing the Security of a Device
    Provides an overview of how to use the security services in Windows CE.
  • Signature Creation
    Describes how to use signfile.exe to create a digital signature that can be used for verification of the origination of an electronic document and for nonrepudiation.
  • GWES OS Design Development
    Provides information that OS design developers can use to customize the look and behavior of many aspects of their OS design's user interface.
  • Bluetooth OS Design Development
    Provides information about the Bluetooth Protocol Stack and the extension layer, components and modules that implement Bluetooth functionalities, and Sysgen variables that enable these functionalities.
  • Certificates OS Design Development
    Provides an overview of the modules and components that implement certificates in Windows CE, the Sysgen variables that enable this functionality, and details about how to enroll for a certificate.
  • Implementing Notifications
    Decribes how to implement notifications to informing a user and/or applications that an event has occurred.
  • Design Template Selection
    Provides an overview of each OS design template that is available in Windows CE. Includes a list of estimated run-time image sizes for OS designs for different microprocessors.

Last updated on Thursday, February 02, 2006

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