I'm interested in building a PC for a car that will boot off of a USB Flash Drive. I'm planning on using Windows PE 2.0 for it with the GUI being written in c# or vb.net.
Obviously, for this to work, I'd need to have .Net 2.0 or later installed. Understanding that .Net is not included by default, is there a way to package .Net 2.0 with ...
If I want to run a program in windows PE (Vista or 7) am I not allowed to use any level of managed code?
Can I only have c++ code that doesn't reference any dotNet code?
How can I interact with windows? Do I have to use user32.dll type files to carry out various operations?
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Hello. Is it possible to access BIOS data from Windows PE?
Specifically I'd like to be able to write a console app in C which returns the serial number, much like "Get-WmiObject Win32_BIOS | Select SerialNumber" would in PowerShell.
Is there any way to access BIOS memory locations directly, or is there any calls that can be used to acc...