Core Connectivity (Windows CE 5.0)

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Windows CE supports a unified communications infrastructure called Core Connectivity that enables full-featured connectivity for downloading and debugging. The Core Connectivity infrastructure offers a full range of connectivity support, including:

  • Flashing a run-time image on a target device
  • Downloading an application or a collection of files to a target device
  • Launching an application on the target device
  • Connectivity streams between a target device and a desktop workstation that can be used by any application, such as Remote Tools and Visual Studio
  • Kernel-level connectivity streams between a target device and a desktop workstation that can be used by applications such as Platform Builder
  • Custom services that support the needs of varied OEMs

In this Section

  • Core Connectivity Overview
    Provides information about Core Connectivity services and the Core Connectivity datastore.
  • Kernel Connectivity
    Provides information about kernel transport and kernel download services.
  • Application Connectivity
    Provides information about application transport and application download services for a Platform Builder development environment, and describes application connectivity from a Visual Studio development environment.
  • Core Connectivity Datastore
    Describes the datstore that the Core Connectivity infrastructure uses to store information about infrastructure objects.
  • Core Connectivity Reference
    Describes the interfaces that support Core Connectivity.
  • Remote Tool Connectivity
    Describes the connectivity technology that enables the use of remote tools for development and debugging.

Tools for Debugging and Testing

Presents a variety of Platform Builder tools that support debugging and testing.

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