Manish is a Sr. Program manager in our NETCF Part of the Mobile Developer Group ; he recently wrote up an article on the using GZip encoding for WCF application for .NETCF. So take a look at his blog on http://blogs.msdn.com/maagniho/archive/2008/12/24...

Just saw a mail from the Forums teams that our Smart Device forums are now migrated to the new Forums platform. Makes it a lot easier to use and navigate. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/smartdevicedevelopment/ Do check them out...

In this post , the .NETCF Team discusses the existing start-up policy, configuration options and the change that we are planning to bring in the next release to seeks inputs from the .NETCF developer community. In CF 3.5 and earlier, by default, Vn application...

Both of them are an excellent read for the Mobile Developers. Application Architecture Guide for Mobile Applications Chapter 19 focuses on Mobile. http://www.codeplex.com/AppArchGuide/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Chapter%2019%20-%20Mobile%20Applications&referringTitle...

During our talk @ PDC we showed a number of demos aimed to high light the core value proposition of Silverlight 2 for mobile.  Let me just walk through these quickly and re-iterate some of the key points on each of them. Mobile Visual Studio : Clearly...

is available for viewing at http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC10/ I’ll share more details about the demos we showed and highlight some of the key takeaways from each once I get back to Office on Friday. Thanks Amit

Giorgio and I will be presenting a session on Silverlight for mobile at PDC next week. Microsoft Silverlight 2 for Mobile: Developing for Mobile Devices Wouldn't it be super cool if the Silverlight apps you build for the desktop can now run on...

And yes a few of our blogs readers noticed it too.  While a few interesting blog posts are on their way in the next few weeks, will give in quick update on what I have been up to. My last blog talked about my trip to TechEd 2008 Developer. I recently...

Other than Bumpy (and late) flights in and out of Orlando, Tech*Ed 2008 Developer was a fantastic experience for me.  While I have been to at least 4 Tech*Ed Events in the past 7 years, this one was special because we had a huge Mobility Focus at...

If anyone our blog readers are planning to be at TechEd Developer, please drop by at our Product Booths (Visual Studio and Silverlight) to say Hello ! (and of course you can also ask questions :-) ) Amit Chopra

Yesterday at the Advertising Leadership Forum we showed an App Running on Silverlight for Mobile . It's call Fight The flavor based on the Rocks game done by Vertigo. Check out the small video posted by Jeremy Cath on this site . This was done using...

[May20th] This is now available for viewing online and download from the same link Between now and TechEd 2008 we are planning to host a 5 part Webcast on Building Applications for Windows Mobile. The first one is scheduled for this Friday (16th...

This just got my attention so wanted to share with readers of our blog who are interested in building some cool games for Windows Mobile.  And yes there is Prize Money :-) Check out the contest Registration Website for additional details ! Go fire...

I couldn't make it to live WE-DIG Talk done by Paul Yao last week in our campus, but this afternoon, got a chance to view this online version of the talk posted by him on Channel 9 This talk gives a very good overview of some of the new Features of .NET...

I was going through the list of sessions at Tech*Ed this morning. There is an excellent line up sessions focused towards Mobile Application Development this year. Most of the break out sessions are Level 300 or higher which means a lot of technical depth...

A few weeks ago, the charter for our VSD Team grew significantly. In addition to providing a great tooling story for Windows Mobile and CE Developers, we are now also adding Silverlight for mobile and . NET Compact Framework to our list of deliverables...