

Windows Embedded Compact Development Tool While Compact 2013 was released in June of 2013, more than 2 years ago, there are still good number of projects running on Windows CE 5.0 (released in August 2004) and Windows Embedded CE 6.0 (released in September 2006). Currently, the latest version is “Windows Embedded Compact 2013”, which we refer to as “Compact 2013” in short.

“Windows Embedded Compact” is the latest product name for this OS family. NET” and “Windows Embedded CE”, the Windows Embedded Compact adopted different product names over the years. While the Windows Embedded Compact family of embedded OS has been around since 1996 and has been utilizing Visual Studio IDE as the development environment since Visual Studio 2005, it has been somewhat of hidden gems not noticed by many developer.Ĭomparing to the fast-pace consumer, mobile, game and desktop application development arena, the embedded market moves in snail pace, where many projects remain unchanged for 5 to 10 years and longer.įormerly known as “Windows CE”, “Windows CE. Working with developers inherited Windows Embedded Compact projects, I notice there are confusion about the development environment and tools needed to support different version of Windows Embedded Compact.
