The Microsoft Device Emulator Preview 1.0 is available on Microsoft Betaplace . This is an open beta for a stand-alone version of the Device Emulator that ships with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. The Guest ID is “MSDEVICE” (case is important—it’s all caps...

A personal story: My wife was driving around with my son today, who's two-and-a-half years old. He is currently enamoured with construction equipment and tractors of all ilk. In order to keep him occupied during the drive, my wife had given him his...

During Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2005 we found that there were a lot of connectivity issues when deploying or debugging from Visual Studio to the Device Emulator. We did a bunch of work, and then we found that there were still more issues. Then we looked...