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| Spb Software House Releases Solution to Developers for Windows Mobile 32 Process Limitation |
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Spb Software House is pleased to announce the
release of a free solution for developers to the Windows Mobile 32
process limitation problem. The most common methodology used by Pocket
PC developers for implementing background tasks is to create executable
files which are stored in the Windows/Startup folder in order to ensure
that the program is automatically started following a reset, and
continues to run in the background. The problem comes in that the
Windows CE operating system limits the number of processes running to 32.
For example, in XDA II Pocket PC devices, 28 processes automatically
start running immediately after a soft-reset, thus leaving you with only
four possibilities for new processes, which limits the number of
programs you can run. The Spb Software House solution counteracts this
limitation, and developers can implement this solution free of charge
within their applications.
Windows Mobile 2003 provides users with a special mechanism implemented in the Services.exe directory that allows Pocket PC developers to shape their background applications into services that run in one process as different threads. An article on Microsoft's MSDN Web site details how developers can implement this solution for their Windows Mobile 2003-based applications: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ Jason Dunn, VP of Marketing tells us that "Pocket PCs have
revolutionized the mobile computing world. Having a limitation on the
number of processes a device can have working at one time suddenly puts
a black mark on this revolution. It wasn't until the release of the XDA
II, which has many background processes, that this problem became
apparent. We've found an easy, free way to overcome this restriction. We're
encouraging all Pocket PC developers to update their programs to remove
this restriction - their users will thank them for it." Spb Software
House has already updated several of their applications, and by as new
versions are released all products with background processes will use
the new services methodology.
Pocket PC 2000 and 2002 devices are incompatible with this specific solution, so Spb has created a sevices.exe solution that will replicate the Windows Mobile 2003 solution. Developers can implement this solution free of charge by reading the following article, written by Spb Software House developers, on the Pocket PC Developers Network: http://www.pocketpcdn.com/articles/services.html |
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