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

[cmorris]

You might want to also try the Whidbey discussion groups under 'Smart Devices' at:

http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=whidbey&slcid=us

[Kris Kumar]

The improvement I believe is the unified IDE, like for both C++ and Managed Code you can use VS.NET 2005. Also the Designer for making the UI or laying the controls on a Form has been improved significantly.

But in terms of libraries or on device capabilities, you are stuck with .NET CF 1.0.

Emulation has been improved and it does do ARM emulation.

Sorry don't know about the ActiveSync capability.