What's the differences between all these Windows Mobile 5.0 OS versions?
- Windows Mobile 5.0 Magneto: Microsoft Windows Mobile v5.0 OS 5.1.1700
Build 14334
- FSC Pocket LOOX N500:       Microsoft Windows Mobile v5.0 OS 5.1.1702

We found few bugs in the WinCE5.0 version.
and we wanted to report this to microsoft and expect a solution from them.
when we tried to contact them ,they told us to go to product support group.
its little funny as to mistakes done by microsoft is to be paid by customers.

I have some questions related to the SD and ethernal card drivers under
Windows CE 4.2.
Let me first explain the behaviour that I am observing :-
The sd card works fine when i build  the kernel with the ethernal component

   In Windows Mobile 5.0 documentation, "NAND Flash Block Driver Overview
(SP Only)" , it mentions that "The FAL is responsible for handling all I/O
requests from the upper-level file systems, implementing all of the
necessary wear-leveling operations, maintaining data integrity, ...

Please Can any One Help me on this
I have windows CE 5.0 platform builder evaluation copy
when I try to build and sysgen my image I got this error
Environment variable SYSGEN not defined

Due to lesser overhead on IOCTLs i.e. faster calls, I plan to implement a
driver as an IISR. As it doesn't actually need to handle IRQs the ISR is a
dummy. To get a handle to do IOCTLs it seems I have to use
LoadIntChainHandler. As several processes may need to communicate with the

There's a bug in the cerdisp public code, making the "-c" option
(autoconnect) not work. When parsing the command line, the tchar
pointer is not incremented so the application keeps saying "invalid
argument". Apparently it has never been tested before release.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/mobilesdk5/html
/wce51grfSKUMatrixForWindowsMobile.asp
Under TOOLS SUPPORT there is "Visual Basic Runtimes" and it's optional for
all Windows Mobile 5.0 edition.
In your opinion, what does it mean with "Visual Basic ...

If I add .NET CF 1.0 to CE4.2 image then applications that are buitl for the
CF start but do not execute - ie WinCE does not complain and the app seems to
run, however none of the application code is executed.
If I then add Standard SDK support to the image the CF apps exeute ...

i added a new project to act as a device driver
i want to use calls to xllp libraries in the csp of the pxa270
i want to use som include file in thr platform.
how can i make them available to my new project

i wrote a driver to external uart based on the 16550 uart. i want to add it
in addition to the original uarts thet are in the  pxa255 platform.
if i add asecond uart from the catalog, hoe to i implement my driver changes
insidewithout modifying the common code?

I read the "Windows CE Binary Image Data Format" section in MSDN's
Windows CE 5.0 help. According to that section each binary file is
composed of several records. What is each record? Is it a file
contained in the binary or does it have another purpose?

I created a new platform in PB4.2 the other day and it was working very
well.  But since I rebooted my PC today I can't get back into it.  (I
can load other platforms just fine.)  Has anyone else seen this
succession of error messages?

I ran into a nasty surprise when I tried to turn of some irrelevant compile
time warnings using
   CDEFINES=$(CDEFINES) -wdXXXX
in the platform SOURCES.CMN file.

A few questions about threads in win ce
In a windows server environment its good to keep low number
of threads - context switching is expensive if you have a busy
system - so you try to keep number of threads down. There