Re: [aus-dotnet] Backup and restore utility for CE.NET

[David Jones]

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Whilst not having a specific answer to your problem here are couple of
comments.  Hope they are of use.
- .NET and Compact .NET are not hardware friendly.  You can use PInvoke
but they only call native code (written with the Embedded Visual C++
V4.0, or CE.NET system calls.)  So you are probably going to have use
the embedded VC++ to write some native code to do what you want then
PInvoke it from .NET Compact.
-My XScale boards have a small amout 2 x 64 Bits of EEPRom for storing
config etc data.


David Jones
Senior Lecturer
School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
RMIT University
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>>> Brett.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 01/20/04 5:00 PM >>>
Hi,
We are working on building software (using .NET CF) for devices running
Windows CE.NET and communicating over a 802.11b WLAN. One problem we
have struck is that the devices have no battery backup so when they get
reset, they lose all the Cisco WLAN drivers and settings required to
communicate. Obviously I am not getting a whole lot of love from support
guys about that, as they don't want to visit every device and reinstall
driver software any time they lose power. 

I am thinking the simplest solution would be to find some kind of backup
and restore utility that can take a backup the entire device (including
all our drivers etc) and store it in flash memory and then automatically
restore this backup on device boot. Does anybody know of such a utility
or a better way of achieving the same effect? 

In case it matters, we are using XScale powered PCM-7210 devices from
Advantech (www.advantech.com) and we are writing the .NET CF software
only i.e. we are not building and loading OS images using Platform
Builder. 

Thanks in advance
Cheers
Brett
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