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 members are presenting sessions on various device features we're enabling in Orcas in upcoming Tech Mela in Mumbai - June 13th to Jun 16th 2007. Some of the topics we're presenting are:

• What's New for Device Developers in Visual Studio "Orcas" - Aarthi Ramamurthy
• Using LINQ with the .NET Compact Framework - Manav Gaur (yep! thats me)
• Device Emulator for Mobile Application Developers - Mukund Bhoovaraghavan
• New and Improved .NET Compact Framework Diagnostic Tools - Srinivas Nadimpalli

Visit http://www.techmela.com to register and meet the VSD team. We look forward to hearing from you.

Cheers!

Manav