Windows® SideShow™ Device Components for Windows® CE 5.0
Brief Description
The Windows® SideShow technologies provided allows devices to interact with various Windows Vista gadgets to receive, send or display information on a home network.
*Download size depends on selected download components.
Overview
The Windows® SideShow technologies provided allows devices to interact with various Windows Vista gadgets to receive, send or display information on a home network.
To use Windows Sideshow Device Components For Windows CE 5.0, you need:
• Platform Builder for Windows CE 5.0
• 400-MHz Pentium II or later processor; 1-GHz processor recommended
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4 or later, or Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 or later
• Microsoft .NET Framework, version 1.1
• 256 MB of RAM; 512 MB of RAM recommended
• 50 MB of available hard-disk space
• VGA or higher-resolution monitor; Super VGA recommended
• Microsoft Mouse or similar pointing device
• Serial port or Ethernet card for debugging support; a LAN hub is recommended
To install Windows Sideshow Device Components For Windows CE 5.0, you must have administrative privileges.
1. Download the following files to the same location/directory:
• CE_1.cab
• Windows SideShow For Microsoft Windows CE 5.0.msi
• Windows SideShow For Microsoft Windows CE 5.0 Release Notes.htm
• Windows SideShow For Microsoft Windows CE 5.0_License.rtf
2. Run Windows SideShow For Microsoft Windows CE 5.0.msi and follow the onscreen instructions.
Important Note: You will need to download all the appropriate updates based on the operating system support you have included with your Windows CE 5.0 installation.
An easy way to determine which CPU support you have is to browse to <WINCEROOT>\PUBLIC\COMMON\OAK\LIB and see which CPU folders are listed. To add additional CPU support at a later time, the feature pack will be automatically included but you will need to manually download and install the latest updates for any newly added CPUs.
