Embedded application Development

As any application development Embedded application development requires sufficient thoughts.............................
we will start from the OS selection.....

OS selection should be based on
1)The functional needs of the application.
2)Availability of development tools and technical support.
3)Third party application and developer support.
4)Real time capabilities.
5)Processor architecture and peripheral support.
6)Memory foot print.
7)business Model.
8)Conformance to standards

What is real time operating system ?
Real time operating system can be defined as an OS which guarantees a certain capability with in a specified time span.Real time operating systems are commonly found in Robotics,complex multimedia and animations , communications and has various military and government uses.

Some examples of real-time operating systems are Chimera, Lynx, MTOS, QNX, RTMX, RTX, and VxWorks.

Copying Listview data to ClipBoard C#

Its pretty interesting working around with a listview. Most of the time we use export to excel functionality to copy the list item.In this case we might be required to take care of the version of Excel and all those complex stuff.Clip board is a cool solution for this problem . so lets find out how we can copy selected items in a list view to Clipboard.



string strToClipbrd=""; //stores the items in list view
foreach (ColumnHeader columnHeader in listview.Columns)
{
strClipBrd = strClipBrd + columnHeader.Text+"\t"; // \t help us to navigate to nextcell
}
strClipBrd = strClipBrd + columnHeader.Text+"\n"; // to the new line or to the next row
for (int i = 0; i < listview.Items.Count; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < listview.Columns.Count; j++)
{
if (listview.Items[i].Selected == true) //only selected rows are allowed
strToClipbrd= strToClipbrd+ listview.Items[i].SubItems[j].Text + "\t";
}
strToClipbrd= strToClipbrd+ "\n";
}
Clipboard.SetDataObject(strToClipbrd, true);