Windows CE: Serial Debug Menu Summary

June 10, 2008 · 1 min read

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This is a summary of links to my post that describe creating a serial debug port menu for a Windows CE device. Sure, many of you won’t actually use the debug menu, but this includes some sample code that you may be interested in.

Windows CE: Using the debug serial port for input is a getting started by reading input from the serial debug port.

Windows CE: Displaying a simple menu driven app using serial debug shows how to display a menu based on an array of strings and wait for user input from the serial debug port.

Windows CE: Putting some control behind the serial debug menu adds some code to create the first menu.

Windows CE: Using ToolHelpAPI to list running processes extends the menu by filling in the code to display the running processes using the ToolHelpAPI.

Windows CE: Using ToolHelpAPI to get more information about running processes creates a sub-menu and enhances the listing of running processes to show threads, loaded modules and heaps.

Windows CE: Listing Running Drivers shows how to list the loaded device drivers.

Windows CE: Displaying Disk Information shows how to list the disks and partitions.

Windows CE: Watching Folders for Changes shows how to monitor for changes to folders.

Windows CE: Loading a Driver with ActivateDeviceEx shows how load a driver.

Platform Builder: Formatting Output with DEBUGMSG and RETAILMSG shows how use the format string modifiers to control output.

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 1:19 AM

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