Windows Embedded compact 7 trial notes (1) -- New Changes

In fact, I started to try Windows Embedded compact 7 a few months ago.CommunityThe preview version is available, but relevant information cannot be published due to the NDA relationship. During the communication with Microsoft developers, I was able to clearly feel the great pressure on them. Some MVPs even directly asked: Is wince dying? Those who develop wince/mobile in China should also feel this deeply. Android is not only a powerful opponent of Windows Mobile/Windows Phone, but also a powerful opponent of Windows Mobile/Windows Phone. I know that since this year, many Chinese companies have abandoned the wince/mobile platform and switched to Android, the most well-known of which is meizu. Many friends have to change their technical directions, to learn about Android development, even my company has greatly reduced the number of Wince developers while recruiting andriod developers on a large scale. In this way, how the renamed Windows Embedded compact 7, a new version of Windows CE, will be launched at the end of the year, affects the hearts of many developers.

My usage experience over the past few months is nothing more than that. In general, winec7 has indeed made great improvements, but it is hard to say whether these improvements are refreshing and whether they can beat competitors.

Well, let's talk about it in a few minutes. Let's take a look at what changes have taken place in the new version:

1. System Development and ApplicationProgramDevelopment must be performed in Visual Studio 2008, and pb7 is used as a plug-in under it. This should be expected, but one of them may not be accepted by many people: vs2010 can neither be used for winec7 system development nor application development. It is said that the reason for this is the plug-in structure of Vs, and each version will make great changes, because Windows Phone development preferentially calls the relevant human resources, so the winec7 team could not find anyone to do this, so they had to make a compromise.

2. the Silverlight feature has been enhanced. In wince6 R3, Microsoft introduced Silverlight to the embedded platform for the first time. In the new version, this feature has been greatly enhanced, however, it still supports only C/C ++ native code development and does not support manage code

3. wireless Network support has been greatly enhanced. WiFi, Bluetooth, and cellcore support is much more powerful than the previous versions. It is estimated that it will be much easier to use as a mobile phone system.

4. MFC should be completely abandoned. Like wince6, you cannot find MFC in the catalog; unlike wince6, there is no mfc in the other directory.

5. The device emulator is absent. vitual PC replaces this function.

6. The new IE7 enhances the network browsing experience.

7. Supported CPU types such as armv5, armv6, armv7, mipⅱ, x86, and the original sh4 and armv4i are no longer supported.

8. Many drivers have been rewritten and many new drivers have been added.

9. Supports multi-touch and gesture input.

The above are some major changes in winec7. Next, let's start to experience the actual development process. First, we need to create a system.