Rob Tiffany's Windows Mobile Accelerator : MEDC

See you in Barcelona for Tech Ed EMEA Dev

robtiffany — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:14:00 GMT

Looking forward to seeing lots of familiar faces and meeting new ones starting December 10th at Tech Ed EMEA! While I ran the Windows Mobile track for Tech Ed North America last June in Orlando, this time around I'll just be delivering a couple of presentations and spending most of my time helping empower delegates to create incredible mobile applications. I'll be delivering the following breakout sessions:


	MBL301	What's New in the Windows Mobile Line of Business Solution Accelerator 2008	November 10 16:00 - 17:15	Room 121
This session walks through the new features that we have added to the Windows Mobile Line of Business Accelerator 2008; features such as adapting your application to any device or screen size with a single binary, sync services, store and forward, and advanced data access objects with Microsoft .NET CF 3.5.


	MBL310	Mobilize your Enterprise and Achieve Global Scalability with Windows Mobile and SQL Server Compact	November 11 15:15 - 16:30	Room 121
With the world's largest organizations rolling out tens of thousands of Windows Mobile devices to empower their respective workforces, the ability to create mobile line-of-business solutions that can support large user populations is critical. Based on his third book on Windows Mobile development, Rob Tiffany shows you how to take the Microsoft SQL Server data you use to run your organization and make it available to all your mobile employees. Utilizing the performance, scale-out, and filtering capabilities of Merge Replication Republishing, Rob shows you how to build an n-tier mobile synchronization architecture designed to scale to hundreds of thousands of devices. Take the guesswork out of mobilizing your enterprise by tapping into the experience of one of the world's foremost authorities on Windows Mobile infrastructure and development.

See you there!

- Rob

Listen to Rob's Windows Mobile Interview on .NET Rocks!

robtiffany — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:07:00 GMT

I was recently interviewed by Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell who run one of the Internet's most popular developer sites, .NET Rocks! You can catch the interview at http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=384 where you can either listen to it live via the website, or download it to your favorite device to listen later.

I cover the current state of Windows Mobile + the entire ecosystem including OEMs, Mobile Operators, developers and who does what within Microsoft's Mobile Commications Business in Redmond and the Mobile Development Center in Hyderabad. I take Carl and Richard on a deep dive of our latest mobile development technologies and techniques with the .NET Compact Framework, SQL Server Compact, and WCF Store and Forward just to name a few. I also cover all the features of System Center Mobile Device Manager including OTA software distribution, Group Policies, Mobile VPN security and Domain join.

Download it and give it a listen

- Rob

Tech Ed Developers 2008 is less than 2 Weeks Away!

robtiffany — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:06:00 GMT

We're now in the home-stretch in our preparations for Tech Ed Developers in Orlando this June. Since this was my year to run MEDC, I've been working on this event since last October when MCB decided to integrate our Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference into Tech Ed. My goal has been to make this Tech Ed Developer event as much like the MEDC as possible. Step one in that process has been to ensure that all our breakout sessions are being delivered by a "Dream Team" of Windows Mobile MVPs, Regional Directors and Microsoft Mobility Experts. MEDC veterans should regonize the names on this all-star roster:

Andy Wigley
Dr.Neil Roodyn
Nickolas Landry
Rabi Satter
Loke Uei Tan
Doug Boling
Maarten Struys
Daniel Moth
Anoop Gupta
Darren Flatt
Luis Cabrera-Cordon
Dan Fergus
Mike Francis
Alex Feinman
Jim Wilson
Peter Foot
Paul Yao
Alex Yakhnin
Darren Shaffer
Rob Tiffany
Reed Robison
Mike Saffitz
Vijay Tandra Sistla
Ginny Caughey

Nine of the speakers listed above are distinguished Windows Mobile authors so there's no question that we'll be delivering an avalanche of expertise to attendees at the event. We just finished 2 weeks of dry run rehearsals and everyone is fine tuning their slide decks and demos.

Jim Wilson has created just shy of a dozen hands-on-labs that will take you on deep-dives of our newest technologies at your own pace. They really look incredible!

At our giant Windows Mobile Pavilion, we'll have technology stations devoted to Visual Studio 2008 for Devices, Silverlight, the Windows Mobile Line of Business Acclerator 2008, and the Device Bar where you can see the latest and greatest devices in action! I know you're dying to check out the new Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system.

This will be Bill Gates' last keynote address before he moves on to devote all his energies to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation so you don't want to miss this big moment. The last time we had Bill do a keynote for MEDC was at the Mandalay Bay in 2005 when we launched Windows Mobile 5.0.

If you haven't already registered for this fusion of MEDC and Tech Ed, please do so right away! Go visit the Tech Ed home page at http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2008/developer/default.mspx.

I look forward to seeing everyone in Orlando in a couple of weeks!

Best Regards,

Rob