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Silverlight for Symbian - Bing Application

Over next few weeks we'll be releasing several of our test applications that work beautifully on...

Author: monocept Date: 03/17/2010

Silverlight for Symbian - Now on Nokia Beta Labs

Silverlight for Symbian is now available on Nokia Beta Labs...

Author: monocept Date: 03/16/2010

Announcing Silverlight for Symbian - Beta

We are pleased to announce the public availability of Microsoft Silverlight for Symbian - Beta....

Author: monocept Date: 03/15/2010

Office Move!

Who likes to move? Its painful and not very exciting most of the time. Well, entire IDC is moving to...

Author: monocept Date: 05/01/2008

Accelerate your Mobile App Development with WM LOB Accelerator 2008

This is exciting news for Smart Device developers. Now you can use Windows Mobile Line of Business...

Author: monocept Date: 03/17/2008

CTP of Sync Services for Devices Available

This was one of the most important features that we just couldn't get done in time for Orcas. VSD...

Author: monocept Date: 03/06/2008

VS2008 Smart Device Project Conversion Scenarios

This post summarizes the various combinations of project conversion scenarios when a VS2005 Smart...

Author: monocept Date: 12/05/2007

Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 Available!

Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 is available for download from...

Author: monocept Date: 07/27/2007

VSD Team Signsoff on Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 - Literally

Visual Studio for devices team officially signsoff on Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 literally. Amit and...

Author: monocept Date: 07/16/2007

Step-by-Step guide to writing Smart Device Data Synchronization App

I am often asked this question "I'm a Smart Device developer, I want to write a data application and...

Author: monocept Date: 06/29/2007

Thank you Mumbai!

Thanks for all who attended my presentation on "Using LINQ with Compact Framework". You can:...

Author: monocept Date: 06/25/2007

Worst Presenting Techniques!

Rob, Loke and others talk about worst presenting techniques in this video. This is hilarious. New...

Author: monocept Date: 06/04/2007

TechMela 2007 - Are you coming?

Its been a while since I've visited my blog. I was heads down shipping Orcas Beta 1...

Author: monocept Date: 05/31/2007

VS2005 SP1 Vista Update Now Available

VS2005 SP1 update for Vista is now available on download center. You can download the update from...

Author: monocept Date: 03/06/2007

SQL Server Compact Edition 3.1 launched

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition is the next version of SQL Server Mobile adding the...

Author: monocept Date: 01/16/2007

LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck

If you're a native C++ smart device developer and recently downloaded VS2005 SP1 you may find that...

Author: monocept Date: 12/21/2006

VS2005 SP1 RTM

Yeah!! We've done it. VS 2005 SP1 is RTM. There are significant improvements for Smart Device...

Author: monocept Date: 12/15/2006

Windows Live for Mobile Devices!

Now you can access your Windows Live information on your Mobile devices. Live is available on your...

Author: monocept Date: 12/04/2006

What color Zune are you?

Tomorrow, Nov 15 is the launch of Zune (costing $250) and is going to hit about 30,000 retailers....

Author: monocept Date: 11/14/2006

Steve Balmer @IDC

Today was an interesting day for IDC. Steve Balmer, our CEO was at IDC where he addressed MS India...

Author: monocept Date: 11/10/2006

Giving Campaign

Continuing with great tradition of Microsoft giving back to the community. We at IDC developer...

Author: monocept Date: 11/06/2006

SQL CE/Mobile/Everywhere/Compact - which one to choose?

Well they are all one and same thing. SQL CE has gone thru several versions and name changes which...

Author: monocept Date: 10/31/2006

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Beta Now Available

VS 2005 SP1 Beta is now available for our device customers. This is a significant release for Visual...

Author: monocept Date: 09/26/2006

On the fly encryption on Windows Mobile Made Easy

Mobile security firm SafeBoot has released an encryption system that works on PDAs and smartphones...

Author: monocept Date: 08/16/2006

Smart Devices Data Synchronization Feedback Required

I recently posted this message to our device MVPs and that resulted into a fruitful discussion...

Author: monocept Date: 08/16/2006

How to debug a Smart Device application without ActiveSync?

This question is often asked by developers who are either new to the Smart Device development or...

Author: monocept Date: 07/17/2006

DEVICE DEVELOPMENT - MEDC 2006 LABS are now available on MSDN

Step by Step: Migrating an eMbedded Visual C++ Application to Visual Studio 2005...

Author: monocept Date: 07/03/2006

MEDC India - VSD Participation

MEDC India a great event for VSD is now over. It was fun filled and well attended event. Many of our...

Author: monocept Date: 04/07/2006

Mobile Development Survey

Hello to all mobile developers. I'm with VSD team and looking for your inputs in making VS platform...

Author: monocept Date: 03/21/2006

MEDC Muglets!

I know you would be asking what the heck is a MEDC Muglet. Why don't you check this one out here. Do...

Author: monocept Date: 03/21/2006

Hello World!

As a programmer we know that the best way to know a new technology is to write Hello World! program....

Author: monocept Date: 03/01/2006