Over next few weeks we'll be releasing several of our test applications that work beautifully on Silverlight for Symbian. In the meantime, you can try Bing Application ( http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=184529&clcid=0x409 ) that works on Nokia...

Silverlight for Symbian is now available on Nokia Beta Labs ( http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/silverlight ) for download. If you're a die hard Nokia fan and love to try out the latest and greatest from Nokia than you've come to right place. We hope that...

We are pleased to announce the public availability of Microsoft Silverlight for Symbian - Beta . Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for creating media experiences and rich interactive applications for the...

Who likes to move? Its painful and not very exciting most of the time. Well, entire IDC is moving to building #3 within the campus. Many people are excited but I'm not. I've one of the best views from my cube and I know for sure that I'm not getting any...

This is exciting news for Smart Device developers. Now you can use Windows Mobile Line of Business Accelarator 2008 to learn and develop great applications for Windows Mobile Phone. The accelerator presents the best of the development techniques and highlights...

This was one of the most important features that we just couldn't get done in time for Orcas. VSD team along with Sync team continued the journey and today we're proud to announce the 1st CTP download of Sync Services for Devices. Download the bits...

This post summarizes the various combinations of project conversion scenarios when a VS2005 Smart Device project is opened inside VS2008. 1. When a user opens a VS2005 project inside VS2008 Visual Studio Conversion wizard is automatically launched...

Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 is available for download from http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx . So, what's new in Visual Studio 2008 for device developers? Unit Testing for Devices - You can write your smart device managed application...

Visual Studio for devices team officially signsoff on Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 literally. Amit and Anand, two of our Program Managers did the honour for the team. (Above: Anand looks on while Amit is busy signing) Manav

I am often asked this question "I'm a Smart Device developer, I want to write a data application and I need to synchronize my data with my back-end SQL server - how do I do this?" There is no single answer to this question. There are several techniques...

Thanks for all who attended my presentation on "Using LINQ with Compact Framework". You can: Download the presentation ( here ) Download the Demo project ( attached ) Watch the video on on www.techmela.com . Manav

Rob, Loke and others talk about worst presenting techniques in this video. This is hilarious. New speakers should watch this video! Enjoy! Manav

Its been a while since I've visited my blog. I was heads down shipping Orcas Beta 1 ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx ) and finishing up Orcas Beta 2. Today we hit our zero bugs count for Beta2 - yeah!! Many of the VSD team...

VS2005 SP1 update for Vista is now available on download center. You can download the update from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=90e2942d-3ad1-4873-a2ee-4acc0aace5b6&displaylang=en . You've to apply VS2005 SP1 before applying...

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition is the next version of SQL Server Mobile adding the desktop platform. SQL Server Compact extends the SQL Server Mobile technology by offering a low maintenance, compact embedded database for single-user client...

If you're a native C++ smart device developer and recently downloaded VS2005 SP1 you may find that some of your existing programs and some of the samples that ship with Windows Mobile SDK will fail to compile. Even if you're able to make them compile...

Yeah!! We've done it. VS 2005 SP1 is RTM. There are significant improvements for Smart Device development. You can read device development improvements here http://blogs.msdn.com/mgaur/archive/2006/09/26/772519.aspx . and general SP1 information here...

Now you can access your Windows Live information on your Mobile devices. Live is available on your favourite Windows Mobile phone as well as on any Java enabled phone. Checkout the screen shots for searching local, weather information, driving directions...

Tomorrow, Nov 15 is the launch of Zune (costing $250) and is going to hit about 30,000 retailers. From whiteboard to store shelf in less than 1 year is an amazing. Hats off to the Zune team. Checkout Zune software from http://www.zune.net/ & http...

Today was an interesting day for IDC. Steve Balmer, our CEO was at IDC where he addressed MS India operations. I first hand experienced his energy, passion, his perspective on where MS should go and view on competition. He is surely a leader who can charge...

Continuing with great tradition of Microsoft giving back to the community. We at IDC developer division raised INR 5.84 Lacs (or almost $13K). We didn't organize a poker event like the folks in Redmond however we went on an auction spree. Auction included...

Well they are all one and same thing. SQL CE has gone thru several versions and name changes which has added to lot of confusion within the community. Steve Lasker in this post describes how SQL Ce has evolved and what are the new features in the upcoming...

VS 2005 SP1 Beta is now available for our device customers. This is a significant release for Visual Studio for Devices team and is more of a full-fledged release rather than a service pack. Below are the highlights for device development customers. ...

Mobile security firm SafeBoot has released an encryption system that works on PDAs and smartphones running Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system. Conventional encryption systems normally require the user to apply encryption and de-encryption file...

I recently posted this message to our device MVPs and that resulted into a fruitful discussion surrounding where data synchronization if heading. Please feel free to share your thoughts about the following. Many of us develop Smart Devices data...