running win 32 applications on Windows PE

[hemantbsutar]

Dear Group,
I am new to this group. So "Hi" to all first.

I have a question. I have XP Professional on which,I have developed GUI
Application using Win 32 API's in MS Visual Studio. I want to execute
this program on Windows PE.

1. Is it possible to run Windows PE as a simalutor(Just like Win CE) in
XP? Is 'YES', let me know how i can have access to it? If 'NO', what
is the alternative way to execute my application on 'Windows PE'?
2. Can Windows PE and Windows XP exist on the same PC, by making
partitions??


Thanking you in advance,

Expecting your answers at the earliest,

rgds,
Hemant

 

[Gordon Smith \(eMVP\)]

Dear Group,
I am new to this group. So "Hi" to all first.

I have a question. I have XP Professional on which,I have developed
GUI Application using Win 32 API's in MS Visual Studio. I want to
execute this program on Windows PE.

1. Is it possible to run Windows PE as a simalutor(Just like Win CE)
in XP? Is 'YES', let me know how i can have access to it? If 'NO',
what is the alternative way to execute my application on 'Windows PE'?
2. Can Windows PE and Windows XP exist on the same PC, by making
partitions??


Thanking you in advance,

Expecting your answers at the earliest,

rgds,
Hemant

1. Yes. You can run WindowsPE using VirtualPC.
2. Yes. WinPE is just another operating system. It happens to be VERY
stripped down. It's really meant for helping with simple oriented tasks
like recovery CDs (due to having diskpart & format & xcopy). Are you sure
you want to use WinPE to host your app? Quite a bit of the OS (shell, etc)
isn't present. Your app may not run depending on what you're expecting from
an OS.

 

[hemantbsutar]

Dear Gordon,
Thanks for your reply. I could able to download Virtual PC. I have
generated Windows PE image by Bart PE Builder(available free). I could
launch this PE image successfully on Virtual PC. But I am not able to
share any data between Host and Virtual PC. I tried installing PE
Additions( as Microsoft says), but unable to do that. Basically i want
to test my GUI sample orgram(Say "Hello World") on this PE running on
Virtual PC. Would u please throw some light on "how to share data
between host and Virtual PC?"

thanks and waiting for your response at the earliest.

rgds,
Hemant

 

[Gordon Smith \(eMVP\)]

Dear Gordon,
Thanks for your reply. I could able to download Virtual PC. I have
generated Windows PE image by Bart PE Builder(available free). I could
launch this PE image successfully on Virtual PC. But I am not able to
share any data between Host and Virtual PC. I tried installing PE
Additions( as Microsoft says), but unable to do that. Basically i want
to test my GUI sample orgram(Say "Hello World") on this PE running on
Virtual PC. Would u please throw some light on "how to share data
between host and Virtual PC?"

thanks and waiting for your response at the earliest.

rgds,
Hemant

From the host:
1. Share some folder. For example sake share c:\transfer as "transfer".
2. Find the IP address of the host.

From within WinPE type:
1. net use z: \\XX.XX.XX.XX\transfer
2. Copy to/from the VPC use z: (host) and c: (vpc)