Accelerator is a high-level data parallel library which uses parallel processors such as the GPU or multicore CPU to accelerate execution. Accelerator v1 was released to the MSR Web site in October 2006 and has been periodically updated since then. Accelerator...

Visit http://connect.microsoft.com/acceleratorv2 to download the preview build and documentation. What is Accelerator? Accelerator is a high-level data parallel array-processing library which uses the parallel processing capabilities of a GPU...

Great news! Joel Pobar and Ted Neward have been working on a new edition of the Shared Source CLI Essentials book , titled "Shared Source CLI 2.0 Internals". It is based on the Rotor 2.0 source release, so there are lots of new places to explore in the...

My "hush-hush" project is finally opening up a little! After delving deep into the world of mobile and embedded applications as part of the DeviceEmulator project, I decided to learn a very different style of software... video games. Instead of squeezing...

DeviceEmulator 2.0 adds several new peripheral devices, including notification LED and vibrate. If the emulator is running without a skin, or with a skin that predates the LED feature, then the emulator displays the LED as a blinking box in its title...

Back in October, I left the DeviceEmulator team for a new position in Microsoft Research. The project's details are hush-hush, even inside Microsoft, so I've been keeping a low profile in the blogsphere. It isn't time to announce the project yet, but...

There are some mechanisms built into the DeviceEmulator's JIT which can make debugging and tracing both the JIT and guest code fairly straightfoward. 1) Define LOGGING_ENABLED to 1 in include\emulator.h, to compile in debug logging in the JIT. Several...

Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Platform Builder 6.0 SP1 is now available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=BF0DC0E3-8575-4860-A8E3-290ADF242678&displaylang=en . The service pack adds eXDI hardware-level debugging into the Platform...

Back in October, I said farewell to the DeviceEmulator , and joined a new project in Microsoft Research. That project is still secret - I joke that at next TechFest , we'll have a booth, but it'll just be 4 black-curtained walls, with no computers and...

The DeviceEmulator team has just released DeviceEmulator 2.0 in all languages that Visual Studio 2005 supports. Here are the URLs: ENU: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=dd567053-f231-4a64-a648-fea5e7061303...

Anand just posted that Device Emulator V2 is now available as a standalone download ( http://blogs.msdn.com/anandba/archive/2007/03/13/device-emulator-v2-is-live.aspx ). Congrats to the emulator team! Two things made V2 particularly interesting...

I use a pretty extensive suite of tools as a developer - two IDEs, debuggers, code analysis tools, profilers, etc. But one tool stands out as the glue between all of my tools - OneNote 2007. Here's a rundown of a few of the tasks where Outlook is invaluable...

Device Emulator V2.0 is finished, and RTMs along with Windows CE 6.0. It's going to be a great release, building on the V2.0 CTP, with improved features and performance (and quite a few bug fixes). The V3.0 emulator is already under development, and I...

My Channel9 video is up! http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=224510 . It's a talk about the DeviceEmulator in general, with some highlights of the Shared Source DeviceEmulator.

Very small! The DeviceEmulator nk.bin can be as small as 1.3mb! With that 1.3mb OS image, you can deploy and debug native applications using Visual Studio for Devices. Here's how... In Platform Builder Install the Device Emulator BSP from http:...

One of the great things about the DeviceEmulator is that it runs inside VirtualPC and VirtualServer. However, there is one gotcha about using the Virtual Switch driver (download from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=dc8332d6...

Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=faa8c81d-7316-4461-a0ed-6c95b261ddcd&DisplayLang=en . The license text is available here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/license/de_academic.aspx . This release is the full...

The Adapt Your App Site ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/windowsmobile/howto/AdaptYourApp ) is a great resource for learning about display sizes and orientations in Windows Mobile. The site has links to the Device Emulator V1.0 standalone release...

Three quick things can make demos on the DeviceEmulator look much nicer: Enable ClearType. Go to Start/Settings, then switch to the System tab and tap on the Screen applet. Switch to the ClearType tab and check the "Enable ClearType" checkbox...

The DeviceEmulator V2 is significantly faster than the V1 emulator you're used to. Most of the performance wins come from a small set of optimizations in the ARM-to-x86 JIT and the MMU emulator. These wins improve raw execution of ARM instructions...

Using GPS receiver hardware from inside the DeviceEmulator is actually more straightforward than using the virtual GPS receiver from Part 1. Here is how: Plug your GPS receiver into a serial port on your PC. Launch the Windows Mobile 5.0 PocketPC...

Have you ever wanted to run a GPS-aware application inside the DeviceEmulator, without using a hardware GPS receiver? This would make both demos and test automation of GPS-aware applications much easier! It turns out that the support is built right...

Great news! You can now download Windows Mobile 5.0 Messaging and Security Feature Pack OS images (aka AKU2) for the Device Emulator. The MSFP release includes Direct Push , Remote Wipe, S/MIME, policy enformencent and other features - see this article...

If you do not have Visual Studio 2005 installed, but have Device Emulator OS images you want to try, you can now do so using the same emulator that ships with Visual Studio 2005. Head to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C62D54A5...

The DeviceEmulator 2.0 Community Tech. Preview just went live, at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=13F5DE85-30CD-4506-9C5B-A2068FA1EE9E&displaylang=en . V2 has: Much improved performance DEComInterfaces.idl - the...