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Microsoft is a big company. Everybody knows this, but it really hits home when your job is to go around and interview people from its many divisions. Before shooting this video, I didn't even know there was a Windows Home Server coming out. But there is. And if you want to know what it is,…

This screencast is an introduction to using SQL Server Mobile as a local data repository for your Windows Mobile applications. I walk you through the creation of a SQL Mobile database, how to deploy the DB with your app, how to tie into the data source, and then how to get the IDE to do the rest…

In this screencast, I demo one of the new Windows Mobile 5.0 features. SNAPI, which is an awesome name for an API, is the State Notification API. It allows you to keep track of various aspects of your device. From the number of available network connections to the presence of a keyboard, SNAPI…

There's some confusion among geeks about what the differences are between Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded, and Windows Mobile. In this video, I talk with Mike Hall and Derek Snyder about these differences, and what I got was a crystal clear explanation. Then Derek goes on to demo a few…

In Part One of this series, Boyd Multerer told us all about XNA. Now, in Part Two, Frank Savage shows it all to us. Frank will talk about XNA from his perspective, deploy an XNA project to an Xbox 360, modify the application, and also give a debugging demonstration. All of this is done at…

This is the first of a two part series in which we get a look at XNA - the technology that's going to make it significantly easier for devs to code games that run on Windows and the Xbox 360. In this first part, we chat with Boyd Multerer about his role in the XNA program. It's some pretty…

I've decided, humble as I am, to try and create the greatest series of screencasts in the entire universe on the subject of Windows Mobile development. I'll probably fail, but that's no big deal. It's just a goal. In this first screencast, I walk you through the creation of a very simple…

Charles Torre had the pleasure of speaking with Jim Allchin recently about Windows Vista going RTM. I don't think there's much else to say about it - just watch the video

In this video we talk with Matthew Scott, a developer on the Word team who takes us through the design and development of the Word 2007 Content Control Toolkit, an application that natively reads and writes Word documents saved in the Open XML file format.  This application has been…

This was the first time I had ever met Scott Guthrie in person. Like many devs working with MS dev tools, I was quite familiar with the guy - just about everything he says is useful. I used to code by his posts, articles, and interviews. Meeting him was weird. For one thing, he's…