For Developers: Preview of Microsoft Mobile and Embedded DevCon (MEDC) 2005 - May 9-12
April 25, 2005 [General] | By Edward J. R.
Apart from widely expected release of Windows Mobile code name Magneto (to be named Windows Mobile 2005 or Windows Mobile 5.0 - it's not clear yet), Microsoft is preparing alos several other goodies for this conference.
This conference, exactly this year, marks also an important milestone for Microsoft's efforts to enter cellphone industry: pioneering times are over, and now Microsoft is going to sway users and operators not only with the best development tools (Visual Studio of next generation) but also with more features embedded in the Windows Mobile itself!
The following preview comes Robert Levy:
... from Microsoft. Find more about this preview here - you can also drop there your comments wiht feedback and wishes.
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It's been pretty quiet on the blog lately since, between working on the next version of Windows Mobile and preparing for MEDC, everyone is super busy right now. Here are some interesting MEDC tidbits to whet your appetite (or encourage you to register if you haven't done so yet).
- Next week, we're doing dry runs of every session in front of other speakers to ensure technical accuracy, message consistency, and overall presentation quality. Scattered over the next several weeks, each speaker has an hour reserved to be one-on-one with a trainer who, from what I've heard, gives brutal feedback presentation skills that is guaranteed to improve our scores. James is giving some awesome prizes to the speakers with the best scores (based on attendee feedback) so people seem anxious to take any opportunity they can to do better.
- We'll have a huge number of people from the program management, dev, and test teams at this event... more than any previous show. So if you want to ask a question or just complain about complain about a specific feature to the person directly responsible for that feature, chances are pretty good that you'll be able to do that at MEDC.
- BillG will be doing the keynote for the 3rd year in a row. The marketting folks will send someone to kill me if I say any more but you definitely won't want to miss this..
- The Blue Man Group will be doing an exlcusive show for attendees. 'Nuff said.
- There are 21 self-paced labs that you can do at any time during the show to try out the latest technologies & techniques with experts near by to answer questions
- There are 25 instructor-led labs scheduled where an expert will walk you through the latest technologies & techniques.
- Check out those last two lines again... that's an insane number of labs. Go to http://content.medc2005.com/content/sessions.aspx and pick "Hands On Lab" from the "Session Type" list to see them all.
- You may recall that we had some debate a while back about whether there should be 1 or 2 sessions about future APIs specific to Windows Mobile. Well, we decided to do both... there will be 3. Jason has a session about future APIs for native developers. Larry has a session about enhancements to the SDK as a whole and future UI controls for .NET CF developers. And I have a session that covers all other APIs in the upcomming Microsoft.WindowsMobile namespace.
- Aside from the Windows Mobile-specific topics, there are a dozens of other sessions on new or upcomming technoligies that will be of interest to both Windows CE and Windows Mobile developers... Direct3D, DirectDraw, .NET Compact Framework 2.0, SQL Mobile 3.0, Visual Studio 2005, Windows Media Player 10, etc. Some of these things have been discussed before but never in the amount of detail that they'll get at MEDC 2005.
- Over the last year or so, our test team has grown more and more passionate about helping ISVs do better testing. This will be pretty obvious at MEDC. This year's event will feature an increased number of testing-oriented sessions, the introduction of testing-oriented hands on labs, and a ton of money being spent on sending our testers to this event to interact with attendees.
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If you are located in USA and you are even slightly interested in mobility (you don't have to be developer, but it helps) then MEDC 2005 will be very important ground breaking conference and you wouldn't like to miss it! Learn more about this conference here.
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