Last night I was browsing around the web when I saw very handy collection of Web Sites that are optimised for mobile devices. I thought I should share http://www.windowsmobiletraining.com/connection/forums/p/14/21.aspx#21 Business Ameritrade Trade and Watch Stocks...

TechMela is quite an interesting name. Mela means a fair in Hindi. The folks at India have done a fantastic job at bring a bunch of events under one roof and a new branding called TechMela. There will be 4 sessions that the Visual Studio for Device team will be presenting. Device Emulator for...

A little Over 3 years ago, on 30th Jan 2004, I mustered some courage to start experimenting with the Blogging Phenomenon that had started to take off. Within a day or two or writing my first blog post " I had to start one day" , I noticed my name in one of the division wide status mails being highlighted...

A great way to know what our team has been upto http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=23841

I am pleased to announce that last week our team signed off on the Service Pack 4 (SP4) release of eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0. It is available on the web at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4A4ED1F4-91D3-4DBE-986E-A812984318E5&displaylang=en The primary reason for this release...

The MSDN Product Feedback Center is a public suggestion and bug database for Microsoft products, starting with Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0 Beta. Developers can track suggestions and bug reports online, get email notification of fixes, and interact directly with Microsoft product teams...

I wrote up a small document which highlights some of the enhancements and and new features in Smart devices development in Visual Studio 2005. You can view this on http://msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/teams/devices/whatsnew/default.aspx Would love to hear what you think ! Thanks Amit Chopra

We now have a dedicated newsgroup for dicussions around Native Device development in VS 2005. The newsgroup is microsoft.private.whidbey.smartdevices.cplusplus Instructions on how to get to this newsgroup are available on the Visual Studio 2005 Developer Center Amit Chopra

I saw a few posts complaing about missing or corrupted CABs. Here is some information that would help you diagnose what the issues is. For the corrupted cab’s I would suggest you should locate the file on the CD/DVD and then open the CAB file with explorer (double click on the cab) and select...

Thanks to everyone who came to the MDC event and I hope you found it as time well spent. I personally was very excited to have an oppertunity meet with many of you first hand and listen to your feedback and questions, and also showcase some of our new and exciting features in VS 2005. Given that I...

It was really exciting to see all the momentum around Mobile Development and specially around the next version of VS and NET CF. The most common questions I got at the booth was - where are the DVDs? I think the DVDs missed the 'in-the-bag' deadline so they should be coming tomorrow (3/25). I talked...

This is the big annual mobility event that all the folks in the Visual Studio for Device really look forward to. This time around we will be making the updated version of Visual Studio “Whidbey” available at the conference that support device development with NET CF “Whidbey”...