This is my first MSDN blog entry so I will use it to present the future content of this blog and a little description of myself.  No blog would be complete without a bit of self promotion.

I have been a software developer engineer in test or SDET for almost 2 years now.  My first endeavor was the emulator technologies of the Visual Studio for Devices.  This includes the early x86 emulator and the new Arm emulator.  I have seen the Pocket PC 2002 through 2005 operating systems, the Smartphone 2003 and 2005 systems and the Windows CE 3 through 5 systems come out.  I also had the chance to use various Windows mobile devices.  These devices have a tremendous potential and with Visual Studio 2005 coming out, there will be a substantial push for even greater applications.

A few weeks ago, I moved to the VS SDK team.  I have started acquiring knowledge about the internals of Visual Studio and how to integrate new features in it.  At the same time, the whole team have been hard at work to release the RTM version of the VS SDK.  Now that it is done (see next post about the official release announcement), we have started planning the next versions.  It is very exciting as we have *many* requested/desired features.

I look forward to sharing information about the VS SDK and all of my computer-related experiences.  I’ll see you on the forums (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=57&SiteID=1)

till next time

Carl