Amit Chopra

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 robust connectivity layers that can work with a multitude of devices, providing high-fidelity emulation that could truly emulate current device CPUs, and take advantage of new features of device ... (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 fe... (more)

The Microsoft Device Emulator

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... (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 review... (more)