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For Developers: new Visual Studio 2008 Beta with enhancements for Windows Mobile developers - released July 31, 2007 [General] | By Edward J. R. New .NET Compact Framework and new SQL Server Compact Edition - version 3.5 - are included in this release but since now all Windows Mobile 6 devices offer version 2 of these 2 platforms, this Beta is not so much for current software development tasks, but rather to get acquainted with what is coming up... New Features for Mobile Developers * Unit testing is now available to mobile developers - Developers have told us that testing mobile applications is time consuming and costly. Visual Studio 2008 enables automated functional testing of managed code to reduce that burden. * Latest Device Emulator (version 3.0) - You can now automate testing scenarios in the device emulator allowing you to simulate real world changes in device state – signal dropoff, battery running dead etc * Latest .NET Compact Framework (version 3.5) - .NET Compact Framework 3.5 introduces new features like LINQ as well as an implementation of the Windows Communication Foundation enabling device to device and device to server communication over the Exchange Activesync transport * Designer support for SQL Server 3.5 Compact Edition - You can now build SQL Server 3.5 Compact Edition applications using the Visual Studio 2008 designer experience To download this new Visual Studio 2008 Beta click here. More background information about this release can be found also here (by Jason Langridge) and here (by Windows Mobile team).  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)
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