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  Chewy Chong 7:51 pm on July 11, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

  Embedded Solution Possibilities with DST Asia 

  The DST Asia booth was one of the most popular solution showcases at MEDC 2007 Singapore.  During lunch and at all the breaks, their booth was pretty much packed.  I was only able to meet up with them after the event.

  Check out the video to see what they were showcasing.  The video shows the “raw” embedded devices and the devices used in context of a customer solution.  The other interesting bit is at the end of the video… DST offers technical training on Windows CE Embedded and XP Embedded. 

  Find out more about DST Asia at http://www.dst-asia.com

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  Chewy Chong 7:51 pm on July 8, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

  O2 Shows Us Windows Mobile 6 on the Xda Atom Life AND Check Out the O2 FLAME 

  The nice ladies at O2 Singapore took some time out recently to show us a few cool devices now out in Singapore. 

  First up, the Xda Atom Life running Windows Mobile 6.  O2 actually built in a few customized apps to make the entertainment features of the phone more exciting to use.  This is something I didn’t know … but did you know that even though many phones come with the Windows Mobile OS on it, many vendors add in some customized premium apps onto the devices to make them standout of other devices.  The O2 custom apps area quite slick so make sure you check them out.  Not all Windows Mobile devices are the same!

  Next up was the FLAME.  You seriously have to check out the video.  The thing has a NVIDIA GoForce GPU with 2GB RAM.  It has more computing power than my 486 machine back in the day.   

  More info about O2 and their devices at http://www.seeo2.com

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  Chewy Chong 4:39 pm on July 4, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

  Easy Pack-Up of Your Application with WiX 

  Creating a MSI package to deploy your app can be a pain.  MSI is a powerful tool but if all you need is to copy a few files around (one of the beautiful things of .NET apps)… building a MSI package can be rather painful.

  Enter “WiX” (Windows Installer XML):

  WIX Main Site on SourceForge
  http://wix.sourceforge.net/

  Good Details about WiX on Wikipedia (including how Office 2007 and SQL 2005 is packaged via WiX)
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiX

  Get Started with WiX v3 (most current version as of July 2007)
  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105970&package_id=168888
  - Install the ProjectAggregator MSI first
  - Install the Wix MSI last
  - Done!

  One of our new hires (Shen Yizhe) and I are working on a fun community project for Singapore.  We are (hopefully) soon going to release the project to the community via CodePlex.  Since not everyone really cares about the source code, we need to build a MSI that’ll simply get you the app.  WiX version 3 turned out to be a very easy thing to do. 

  In 2 hours, we went from “no clue” to a semi-complex, fully functional MSI package.  WiX is integrated into Visual Studio 2005 and works with the TFS source control on CodePlex (yup… I can check-in/out straight from CodePlex with Team Explorer… how cool is that).

  The MSI package is “declared” in a XML file.  You specify where files from your projects are supposed to go plus a few other things and you’re done.  It’s pretty cool.  Go check out their site for more info.

  The Single XML File for Your Package
  
       

  FYI – Even though WiX v3 is marked unstable… I’ve had no problems.  Unfort, WiX v2 projects didn’t work with the CodePlex / Visual Studio source control.