Continuing on the Device Emulator, make sure to check " DeviceEmulator V2 - how did we get a 40% improvement in performance? ", a great post from Barry Bond , Device Emulator's architect: The DeviceEmulator V2 is significantly faster than the V1 emulator...

News from the Device Emulator team: The Microsoft Device Emulator 1.0 is a standalone version of the same ARM based Device Emulator that ships as part of Visual Studio 2005. The standalone emulator is intended for situations when you want to demonstrate...