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SideShow for Windows Mobile Developer Preview Released @ TechReady 2008!

Today we released the Windows SideShow for Windows Mobile Developer Preview.  Now any Windows Mobile 5 or 6 phone can work as a Bluetooth Windows SideShow device!  We've got some favorite uses of it already, including using it to control PowerPoint presentations while viewing the speaker notes, using it as a remote control to Windows Media Player, and viewing RSS feeds on the road. Really, though, we’ve barely scratched the surface of what’s possible here, and developers have the opportunity to invent a whole new range of scenarios using the software and the Managed API SDK (see below) that allows Visual Basic and C# development, so we’re really excited to see what’s going to come out next.  Enjoy!

 

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-Toby

Published Monday, June 02, 2008 11:41 PM by auxall

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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 2:11 PM by Allo Group Blog : Blog Archive : Microsoft geeft preview van Sideshow-ontwikkelkit voor Windows Mobile vrij

# re: SideShow for Windows Mobile Developer Preview Released @ TechReady 2008!

I have created a Screenshot Tour of Windows SideShow for Windows Mobile Beta here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sideshow/archive/2008/06/02/sideshow-on-windows-mobile-released-techready-2008.aspx

Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:35 AM by cjcraft@mail.com

# re: SideShow for Windows Mobile Developer Preview Released @ TechReady 2008!

Very cool to finally see this coming, and it's already working very well for a preview.

Controlling PowerPoint from a Smartphone is really cool, as well as controlling Windows Media Player from the bed when back at the hotel after a day of presentation.

Hopefully there will be some background besides on the home page. The white background on lists is a bit plain, and even WM built-in applications introduced some gradient to avoid that, but this is even more noticable on pages like the WMP gadget playing screen, where there is a lot of empty space.

Great work! And working so well I'm keeping it installed on my main Smartphone until it gets replaced by the RTW version.

Wednesday, June 04, 2008 3:07 AM by PhMajerus

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# Windows SideShow for Windows Mobile Developer Preview Released

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