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Windows CE has changed its naming convention on every release.
On the first release it was called WinCE. Starting with version 4.0 it is called WinCE .Net, than Windows CE 5.0, followed by Windows Embedded CE6, Windows Embedded CE6 R2, Windows Embedded CE6 R3 and Windows Embedded Compact 7. Currently it is called Windows Embedded Compact 2013.

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Toolchain

Platform Builder

The Platform-Builder includes everything needed to build and debug a custom Windows CE image.
Till Windows CE 5 it was a seperate tool.
As of Windows Embedded CE 6 it is a plug-in for Visual Studio 2005 professional.

After building an image with Platform-Builder, you can create a Software Development Kit which is used by Visual Studio or Embedded Visual C++ to build applications for a Windows CE device.

Updates

Window CE 5.0

Windows Embedded CE6.0

Embedded Visual C++

This is a free tool which can be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center. It allows you to build and debug applications written in native code (C and C++).
Since Windows Embedded CE6 support has been discontinued.

Visual Studio

This is Microsoft's standard development IDE to build native and managed (C#) application.
To remotly remotely debug applications the professional version is needed.

Windows Embedded Compact 7

Monthly Updates (QFE)

To enable update feature of setup please add the follwing following registry key as string (Source):

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