Technical information

Part 3 – Configure an OS Design
This section will guide you thru the process of creating and configuring an OS design using the
New Platform Wizard within Platform Builder, to create an initial OS design workspace which
you will then modify by adding Windows CE components, applications and making changes to
the registry.
Visual Studio 2005 IDE
Windows Embedded CE 6.0 (“CE 6.0”) Platform Builder is a Visual Studio 2005 (“VS2005”)
plug-in. To use Platform Builder (“PB”), you need to start VS2005 and access PB from VS2005
Integrated Development Environment (“IDE”).
When starting VS2005, you should see a VS2005 screen similar to the following:
Fig. 2 - Visual Studio 2005 IDE
Visual Studio 2005 provides a common Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Visual
Basic, Visual C++, Visual C#, Visual J# and Platform Builder. Depending on the development
preference selected during the installation of VS2005, your VS2005 screen may look different
from the above.
VS2005 IDE provides support to create different type of projects, such as Windows Application,
Console Application, Class Library, smart device application, Windows Services, Web Control,
etc…
When starting a new project with VS2005, there are options for different type of projects. PB for
CE 6.0 is one of the available project types. From VS2005 IDE, select “File | New | Project …”
the following project screen will appear.
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