How to regenerate (or update) an sld file ?

[Oriane]

Hi,

I'm a newbie in XP embedded. I would like to create an image for XPe
including .Net 2.0. For that, I use an XP development machine.
Unfortunately, when I've installed the XPE studio tools on that machine I
haven't yet the 2.0 framework. Thus the *.sld file did not include that
component. My question is: how update the database to reflect this update ?

Philippe

 

[Sean Liming \(MVP\)]

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Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit

 

[Sean Liming \(MVP\)]

What version of XPe are you using?

The latest is XP Embedded SP2 Feature Pack 2007 --- wiht Update Rollup 1.0.
SP2 came with .NET 2.0.

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Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit

 

[Oriane]

Hi Sean,

What version of XPe are you using?

The last one with the SP2.

The latest is XP Embedded SP2 Feature Pack 2007 --- wiht Update Rollup
1.0. SP2 came with .NET 2.0.

Ok then. I need .Net 3.0 also.

But there is something I don't understand: when I build the XPe image on the
dev machine, I include components that are present on the dev machine. In
this article:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/10/TestRun/default.aspx?loc=en,
we can see how to add the .Net 2.0 component on the XPe image (see figure
5). So, I must admit that I'm a little confuse with your question... I
thought that I have to install XP embedded on the target machine, and then
to create an image to be use on a second partition.

Am I wrong ?

Philippe

 

[Sean Liming \(MVP\)]

Articles like this are nice introductions, but they don't give you the whole
picture. I was trying to answer your question "how update the database to
reflect this update " so I guess I don't understqand what you are asking.
Can you be more specific on what you mean?

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Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit

 

[Oriane]

Articles like this are nice introductions, but they don't give you the
whole picture. I was trying to answer your question "how update the
database to reflect this update " so I guess I don't understqand what you
are asking. Can you be more specific on what you mean?

Let's start from the beginning. In this article, I read that we can consider
an XP embedded image like a bunch of XP components. Nice. We build the image
with XP embedded studio running on a target XP machine.

So my first question is: why do we need XP embedded OS ?

I've already written my second question (and it seems quite badly), but I
will try to rephrase it.
We've installed XP embedded studio tool on a XP machine. An MSDE database
was build. At that time the XP machine has only the 1.1 .NET framework. So
we can retrieve this component in the database.

Later on, I realize that we also need .Net 2.0 and 3.0 on the image. So we
installed these software on the target machine. But we didn't know how to
update the database...

Second question: how to rebuild/update the MSDE database ?

Regards

 

[Sean Liming \(MVP\)]

1. XP Embedded is XP Pro broken down into several thousand components. It
allows developers to pick and choose (components) features they want in the
image. Building an image using the XP Embedded Studio tools has nothing to
do with the development OS. There are also embedded and enabling features
that are in XP Embedded that are not in XP Pro such as EWF, FBWF, etc.
2. XP Embedded Database has nothing to do with what is installed on the XP
Pro development system. There are already components for .NET 2.0 and .NET
3.0 in later releases of the XP Embedded tools. The evaluation version
should have several disks. First install SP1, then SP2, and finally Feature
Pack 2007. Update Rollup 1.0 is a seperate download, and contains .NET 3.0
support.

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit

 

[Oriane]

Hi Sean,

1. XP Embedded is XP Pro broken down into several thousand components. It
allows developers to pick and choose (components) features they want in
the image. Building an image using the XP Embedded Studio tools has
nothing to do with the development OS.

However I can add a component of the dev OS to the image (that is explained
in the MSDN article) ?

There are also embedded and enabling features that are in XP Embedded that
are not in XP Pro such as EWF, FBWF, etc.

I understand. Eventually, can I choose a dev machine running w2k3 or Vista
?

2. XP Embedded Database has nothing to do with what is installed on the XP
Pro development system. There are already components for .NET 2.0 and .NET
3.0 in later releases of the XP Embedded tools. The evaluation version
should have several disks. First install SP1, then SP2, and finally
Feature Pack 2007. Update Rollup 1.0 is a seperate download, and contains
.NET 3.0 support.

Ok. So I dont' have the latest version of the XP embedded tools and I have
to install the SP1, the SP2 and so on..

Thanks a lot for your help !