Platform Builder for Microsoft Windows CE provides basic design templates to use as starting points for the creation of an OS.
Using the design templates provides the following benefits:
- They give you an example of how to develop an OS for a specific class of device.
- They reduce your overall OS development time.
After you choose a basic design template, you can modify it to suit your specific needs.
The following design templates are available from the Platform Builder New Platform Wizard.
| Design template | Description |
|---|---|
| Overview of Design Templates for Developing a Target Device | Provides the starting point for devices that require an OS design that can be fully customized.
These devices range from simple network devices with no display, to full-featured appliances with graphical displays, Internet browsing capabilities, and rich multimedia playback. |
| Digital Media Receiver | Provides the starting point for devices that play or store music, video, and other electronic media. |
| Enterprise Terminal | Provides a starting point for business terminals and transaction devices such as the following:
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| Enterprise Web Pad | Provides the basic functionality for consumer Web pads with a touch-screen user interface (UI) and 640x480 or larger display.
You can do the following:
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| Industrial Controller | Provides the starting point for industrial devices, such as human-machine interface (HMI) panels or programmable logic controllers (PLCs). |
| Internet Appliance | Provides the starting point for stationary, browser-based consumer Internet appliances, with a fixed display, such as a CRT or LCD, and a keyboard. |
| IP Phone | Provides a starting point for an Internet-based phone using Voice over IP (VoIP).
Supports both a basic phone with a two-line text display and an advanced phone with a QVGA touch screen, Exchange integration, advanced provisioning through Active Directory, audio call conferencing, and presence. |
| Mobile Handheld | Provides the starting point for a range of mobile devices with a clam-shell-and-keyboard design. |
| Mobile Phone | Provides the standard OS technologies required for building mobile handsets with wireless data, rich graphics, and 160x220 nominal display resolution.
The Mobile Phone design template includes the Microsoft Windows® CE Standard Shell and can optionally include the following:
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| Set-Top Box | Provides functionality for devices that are connected to a television for display of Internet and media content.
This design template includes the Windows CE Standard Shell with a browser-based TV user interface (UI). TV navigation functionality is turned on by default in the browser. A typical application might be a video-over-DSL set-top box with a browser-based TV user interface. |
| Tiny Kernel | Provides a starting point for the smallest functional Windows CE run-time image. |
| Windows Thin Client | Provides the starting point for remote-desktop terminals and includes the functionality necessary to support a remote desktop device, such as a constrained shell and the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). |
See Also
Creating an OS Design with the New Platform Wizard
Last updated on Thursday, February 02, 2006
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