Date: Wednesday July 5, 2006 Time: 6:30 - 9:00pm At: Bldg 117, Chinook, Microsoft Campus, Redmond, WA ===== Theme: Update on Managed Code ===== This past spring, Microsoft announced XNA - a managed code framework for game developers...

The Smart Devices Remote Tools Framework is a powertoy for use by mobile and embedded system developers building on the Microsoft Windows CE platform. The package contains a pre-built host and device side components (for ARM devices only), a set of sample...

Derek Snyder and I are flying from Hong Kong to Vancouver/Canada on Cathay Pacific , nice airline, great service, comfortable seats, and an in-flight entertainment system that crashes at the drop of a hat. The interesting thing about this is the entertainment...

Today, June 27th is MEDC Malaysia - the keynote speaker is Tony Mestres, Senior Director in the Mobile and Embedded Devices Group in Redmond (see below). As we've been traveling around the world we've been purchasing various local items for the...

I've finally made it to Malaysia - the trip has only taken 28 hours to get from Seattle to the hotel in KL - next step is to go to rehearsals at the conference center and then get food and sleep. The event in KL is tomorrow morning and then it's time...

Tonight I head for MEDC Malaysia - I fly from SeaTac at 11pm heading for Vancouver Canada (one hour flight), then pick up the Cathay Pacific flight from Vancouver to Hong Kong at 2:55am (13 hours 15 minutes), then Hong Kong to Malaysia at 8:50am (3 Hours...

I'm thinking about setting up some Windows CE 6 Virtual Labs, similar to the existing Virtual Labs on MSDN - so, if the labs were 30-60 minutes in length would you take the labs ? - Mike

Yesterday evening I took delivery of a shiny, new eBox 2300, the box is pretty small (see image below compare to a Windows Vista "Talking Rain" soda can) - This box has all the functionality of the eBox-II except for no parallel port - everything seems...

I noticed the following posting on Gizmodo - the author is looking for an electronic picture frame, but doesn't like the Ceiva frames because they need to be plugged into a phone jack to download images, and can only pull images from the Ceiva server...

Yesterday I decided to get Phidgets working with my ICOP eBox II reference board - Since I have a working Windows CE 6 Beta BSP for the ICOP board I decided to jump in at the deep end and try to get the driver and an application working (why not, eh?...

Microsoft .NET Compact Framework version 2.0 Service Pack 1 has been released as a download . The service pack includes stability improvements, new debugging features, extended platform support, and new developer functionality. Most notably, users can...

I don't have any meetings on my calendar today (wow, big surprise!), and all of my sessions and demos appear to be working for next weeks MEDC Malaysia , so I appear to have a few minutes on my hands... I have a box full of Phidgets sat in my office...

The finals for this years Windows Embedded Student Challenge (WESC) get started tomorrow, Thursday June 22nd with all teams coming together for a welcome dinner being held at the Microsoft Conference Center (MSCC) - Todd Warren Corporate Vice President...

Take a look at the Microsoft Robotics Studio video over on MSDN Channel 9 - you get to meet the team behind MSRS and get to see the tools (and robots) in action! Also, take a look at the MSRS press release : At RoboBusiness , Microsoft and several...

Microsoft Robotics Studio Community Tech Preview is now available for download. There's a ton of information about Microsoft Robotics Studio on the MSRS site , including case studies, tutorials, and of course the CTP download of the bits. Go check...

This looks like it could be an interesting blog to keep an eye on... Microsoft Robotics Studio Blog - Mike

The MEDC 2006 world tour continues over the next couple of weeks with Taiwan, China, and Malaysia - If you want to keep up with some of the Redmond based speakers on the tour here's a list of sites you might be interested in visiting. Matt Kellner...

The first leg of the MEDC International events is done (Las Vegas/USA, Melbourne/Australia, Tokyo/Japan, and Nice/France) - the second leg of the tour gets started this coming weekend with Taiwan, China, and then Malaysia - unfortunately I don't get to...

If you've attended any of the MEDC 2006 world-wide events you will have received a copy of the Windows CE 6 Beta and of course have seen the product "in action" during the event keynote, in breakout sessions, and also perhaps in hands on labs. We recorded...

Bill Gates will transition out of a day-to-day role in Microsoft effective July 2008 to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. More information available on the Microsoft Press Pass site...

Microsoft will hold a special online "live chat" June 22 for participants in the 2006 Windows CE Shared Source Contest (and other interested developers). The event centers around the Shared Source digital video recorder (DVR) "engine" from the Windows...

If you are not able to attend this years TechEd event you can catch up with what's happening over at Virtual TechEd . - Mike

Here's the Starbucks drinks Loke and I are ordering around the world (apart from Nice/France where there aren't any Starbucks, but there are some rather tasty fish bones!) Check out the MEDC 2006 Starbucks drink video here - btw, the MEDC 2006 Podcast...

Abacus have announced the latest MSN Direct Watch - From the MSN Direct site - The new Abacus® Smart Watch 2006 is better than ever! It delivers the MSN® Direct content you depend on and it's designed with the fashion-conscious person in mind. Abacus...

ok, here it is, the x-ray of the broken tooth from chewing on fish bone in Nice/France, notice the nicely exposed root! - BTW, note to self, do not poke tongue into root, bad things happen. Perhaps I need to make a start on that embedded "blueooth...