First Step of the Windows CE 5.0 Picture Frame Project...

I've completed the first step of the Picture Frame project, I used Windows CE 5.0 to create an Internet Appliance platform based on the Emulator target, I added support for the Image Viewer application, and removed support for .NET Compact Framework and audio.

Since we're still booting into the Windows CE Shell I wanted the device to look more like the final device, so created a custom skin for the project that (hopefully) looks like a picture frame, the .zip file contains two files, the bitmap that looks like a picture frame, and a .xml file that defines the width and height of the skin, and the location and dimensions of the Windows CE O/S image within the skin - the skin files should be copied to the following folder - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows CE Tools\Platman\sdk\wce500\samples\emulator_skins\PictureFrame

Note that the PictureFrame folder doesn't exist, you will need to create this...

Once the O/S image has been built and booted I shared the “My Pictures“ folder from my desktop, this appears as “\Storage Card“ within the Windows CE Operating System - it's then a simple case of running the Windows CE image viewer application and choosing the image(s) you want to display...

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Full steps to build this step of the Picture Frame project will be posted to Channel 9's Citizen Engineer forum once I've finished writing up the steps...

- Mike