Amit Chopra

Anyone who develops applications for devices can vouch for the importance of having a powerful emulator that can help accelerate the overall development and debugging process. This articles talks about the new Microsoft Device Emulator and how you can exploit some of its capabilities and make yourself a more productive Windows Mobile and Embedded developer. Getting the Device Emulator The Microsoft Device Emulator first shipped with Visual Studio 2005 in October 2005. The Microsoft Device Emulator emulates the ARM instruction set which implies that it provides a very high fidelity of emulation, especially on the Windows Mobiles devices which are based on the ARM Processor. This is a significantly different experience from the emulator that was shipped with earlier development tools, such as embedded Visual C++ and Visual Studio 2003, which shipped an emulator emulati... (more)

Visual Studio 2005 - for Device Developers

Visual Studio 2005 (VS2005) includes a broad spectrum of new and enhanced features targeted at managed and native development for Smart Devices including Windows CE- and Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs and Smartphones. When the Devices Team started working on this project, the team's key goals were to ensure that device developers could benefit from the enhancements to the Visual Studio IDE and the runtimes. We wanted to preserve people's investments in existing skills while enhancing the native development experience (for our current embedded Visual C++ developers), delivering ... (more)

New Device Development Features in Visual Studio 2008

Roughly two years ago, when I was writing an article on "New Features for Device Developers in Visual Studio 2005" that was published in the August 2005 issues of this magazine, our program management team was already busy shaping the next release of the product, which is soon to be released as Visual Studio 2008. We spent a lot of time talking to our major customers and reviewing the feedback we got on blogs and questions on forums on newsgroups to identify what enhancements/features would be most useful to our device developers. One thing that surfaced was that device developer... (more)

New Device Development Features in Visual Studio 2008

Roughly two years ago, when I was writing an article on "New Features for Device Developers in Visual Studio 2005" that was published in the August 2005 issue of .NET Developer's Journal, our program management team was already busy shaping the next release of the product, which is soon to be released as Visual Studio 2008. We spent a lot of time talking to our major customers and reviewing the feedback we got on blogs and questions on forums on newsgroups to identify what enhancements/features would be most useful to our device developers. One thing that surfaced was that device... (more)