OVERVIEW
Windows CE 5.0, the successor to Windows CE.NET, combines an advanced real-time embedded operating system with the most powerful tools for rapidly creating the next generation of smart, connected, and small-footprint devices. With a rich feature set and comprehensive development tools, Windows CE 5.0 contains the features embedded developers need to build, debug, and deploy customized Windows CE-based devices.
The platform development tool used to build CE devices, Platform Builder, is a fully integrated development environment (IDE)2 . Windows CE 5.0 also supports Microsoft eMbedded Visual C++® and Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET for building Web services and applications for the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework, a subset of the Microsoft .NET Framework on the desktop. With these tools, developers can rapidly build smart designs running rich applications on the latest hardware.
