Wednesday 13 August 2008

Windows CE QFEs for month of July 2008 arrived

Hi Folks,
the latest Windows CE updates have been recently released and are available for download. Some critical issues have been resolved so get them now!
More information for each update is provided in the Readme document available after the individual update(s) has been installed.

Windows CE 5.0 Platform Builder Monthly Update (July 2008)
Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fb405fd9-983c-4d3f-91eb-6b58cc504604&DisplayLang=en
Description: This is a set of updates for Windows CE Platform Builder released during the period of July 1 - July 31, 2008. These Microsoft Windows CE updates are fixes for Windows CE operating system problems you run into during the development and maintenance of your custom platform.
It contains important updates about FileSys (SD card mount failure may occur when FATFS driver checks FSInfo when mounting a store. TFAT corruption may occur if power is turned off during the NAND flash write operation) and adds support for .NET Compact Framework v3.5 to the platform builder.

Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Monthly Update (July 2008)
Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=991a6ef3-7035-4d71-b424-1fb393af8a26&DisplayLang=en
Description: This is a set of updates for Windows CE Platform Builder released during the period of July 1 - July 31, 2008. These Microsoft Windows CE updates are fixes for Windows CE operating system problems you run into during the development and maintenance of your custom platform.

It contains some critical updates:
Component: CoreOS
080728_KB952264 - This update adds a check for NULL pointer to resolve some issues.

Component: NK
080718_KB955159 - When using the Soft RTC, the hardware clock can tick slightly faster than the software clock and result in unstable clock behavior.
080723_KB955698 - This update allows to limit resource calls on kernel threads only in PSL context.
080725_KB955467 - A DEBUGCHK in DEBUG KERNEL may cause a device to halt during bootup if USB hard disk attached.

Component: Shell
080702_KB953953 - This update addresses a memory leak.

and integration of SQL Compact 3.5 SP1 and .NET Compact Framework v3.5 in Platform Builder.

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