Windows Embedded QFE's (updates)
Since the change to Silverlight/Bing on Microsoft downloads, the download search has become completely useless (for fun, try searching for "CE 6.0", then try "CE") [Update: MS seems to have fixed the search phrase problems, so "CE" and "CE 6.0" now return the correct results. Nevertheless; the remainder of this blog post is still valid]. Therefore the links in this post do not work anymore and an update is needed.
All Windows Embedded Compact 7 / Windows Embedded CE 6.0 / Windows Embedded CE 5.0 / Windows CE.NET 4.2 / Windows CE 3.0 (you can leave it to MS marketing to make product naming as confusing as possible...) updates can be found at these links:
Windows Embedded Compact 7
Windows Embedded CE 6.0
Windows Embedded CE 5.0
Windows CE .NET 4.2
Windows CE 3.0
You can still download the QFEInstaller so you don't have to click the QFE installation wizard a million times, but nowadays the msi installers support silent installation through commandline options as well. The QFEInstaller is still handy because it makes sure the QFE's are installed in the right order.
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will qfe installer work
will qfe installer work through proxy server.
When installing windows embedded ce 6.0 it didn't even started. I had to install it offline as you said( thnx for that).
thnx
RE: will qfe installer work
The QFE installer only installs your QFE's in the right order and clicks all the right boxes for you. It does not download the QFE's from the internet, that's something you have to do yourself. You download all QFE's, then put them all in the same folder as QFEInstaller.exe and you run QFEInstaller to install them unattended.
does windows ce R2 and R3
does windows ce R2 and R3 contains the QFEs
installing them would work or i have to find the updates elsewhere
No, you need to install the
No, you need to install the Windows CE 6.0 development environment in exactly this order:
For source code reference you may want to select all processor architectures and accept the shared source license.
Download and run the msi files corresponding to the CPU architectures you installed in step 4.
For some reason, the QFE
For some reason, the QFE installer stopped after the first QFE in my folder. The update.lst has all the QFE files listed in it.
RE: For some reason...
Yes, that can happen if you were using your mouse while QFEInstaller is working. No problem, just click on the correct button (if a QFE dialog is still open) and QFE Installer should continue. If there's no dialog box open then just kill the DOS box, remove the already installed QFE's from update.lst (but don't delete it) and restart QFEInstaller. It will only install the QFE's still in the list (and not reinstall the ones you already installed successfully).