Satter Ramblings

Shell and Kiosk Presentation

Here is the slide deck in XPS for my Shell and Kiosk presentation. I will upload the kiosk code later this week. I want to do some modification and throughly document the code.

Kiosk and Shells for Windows Mobile

With all the interest in this topic, I have added it as a category. I have put all the blog entries about this topic in this category. In addition, I have added some that are related to kiosk or shell development and/or provisioning.

Kiosk Pattern

So the Today screen is just not what you want to use for a kiosk or custom shell. What is a developer to do?

New Security Whitepaper

Jason Langridge has post a new white paper on Windows Mobile security. This will be posted to Technet at some point.

Lets shell some more - Oops

The included example has a bug. The correct location of the registry entry is HKLM\Security\Policies\Shell. Thanks to my buddy Ryan for pointing it out.

Lets shell some more

So you want to use the Today screen or a custom Shell over top of the Today screen to create a kiosk device. One of the things you can do is blacklist applications and use what is called lock mode.

WM5 Shells

If you want to build a single purpose device using CE or WM you have a couple of choices. If you are using CE you can build and incorporate your own shell replacement. What if you are using WM? In this case you have two choices:

• you can use the provided shell or
• build your own