Questions about VS.NET 2005 beta1

[mobdev2]

Hi guys,
I'm exploring VS.NET 2005 beta1, with regards to mobile devices development,
and I have a couple of questions:

1) As for smartphone 2003, besindes being now integrated into the IDE
without installing a separate SDK...what are the improvements over VS.NET
2003 + Smartphone 2003 SDK? I read that the .NET CF support is still stuck
at version 1.0, while you can use .NET CF 2.0 for Pocket PCs...

2) I keep reading that the new emulators are real ARM images of the OS, is
that true also for smarthphones? But the real question is: I keep reading
that it's now possible to connect from ActiveSync to the emulator...but how
can I do this? I tried but I don't know the correct sequence of steps to
take...if I just run the emulator and ActiveSync, and try to get them
connected, ActiveSync doesn't find anything of the physical ports, of
course...so what? Do I need external software to do so?...I suppose this
question would be the same if asked for the PocketPC, that's why I'm asking
it here...

Thanks a lot for the help...
John