XPE and VB6.0

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kebo

Hi,
I am considering XPE for an industrial controls
application and have very little idea what I am getting
into and have a few question--
1. About how much disk space would be required for XP if I
only need 2 serial ports, no file access, no Iexplorer, no
networking?
2. Can I develop my program on my desktop in VB6.0, them
install it on XPE?
I apologize if I am too vague, please ask if more info is
needed
kevin
 
Hi Kevin

1)

The footprint for a XP-E device depends also on the shell.
If you want to have the "normal" Explorer-Shell, we talk about
100 MB without optimazing.

You can also have a command shell or your own application as a shell.
Then, we talk about 80 MB without optimazing.

You can also build a kernal only image for 4,83 MB... :-)

Command Shell, Minlogon, no network, no big media thing with optimation:
25-30 MB.


2)

Yes, you can develop as usual. XP-E is supporting the full Win32API.
You can also add your application as a own component direct into your XP-E
build.
(No installation needed..... -> installation service needs also some
footprint... :-) )


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Entirely possible.

I work with a build that has VB6 support, winlogon and network, but not full
Explorer. It fits into lees than 90Mb - including about 5Mb of custom
application and supporting components. Yours could be smaller if you can
live with the limitations of minlogon (and there are a few less than obvious
restrictions).

The only real issue that I encountered was RAM. Even with a basic early
build that just had TCP/IP and minlogon (no Windows networking) a VB6
application with a single form with nothing on it failed out of memory when
I had 128Mb of RAM, but no paging.

HTH

Simon
 
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