SideShow for Windows Mobile Developer Preview Released @ TechReady 2008!

Today we released the Windows SideShow for Windows Mobile Developer Preview. Now any Windows Mobile 5 or 6 phone can work as a Bluetooth Windows SideShow device! We've got some favorite uses of it already, including using it to control PowerPoint presentations while viewing the speaker notes, using it as a remote control to Windows Media Player, and viewing RSS feeds on the road. Really, though, we’ve barely scratched the surface of what’s possible here, and developers have the opportunity to invent a whole new range of scenarios using the software and the Managed API SDK (see below) that allows Visual Basic and C# development, so we’re really excited to see what’s going to come out next. Enjoy!

 

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-Toby

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 03, 2008
  PingBack from http://blog.allogroup.be/2008/06/microsoft-geeft-preview-van-sideshow-ontwikkelkit-voor-windows-mobile-vrij/

• Anonymous
  June 03, 2008
  I have created a Screenshot Tour of Windows SideShow for Windows Mobile Beta here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sideshow/archive/2008/06/02/sideshow-on-windows-mobile-released-techready-2008.aspx

• Anonymous
  June 03, 2008
  Very cool to finally see this coming, and it's already working very well for a preview. Controlling PowerPoint from a Smartphone is really cool, as well as controlling Windows Media Player from the bed when back at the hotel after a day of presentation. Hopefully there will be some background besides on the home page. The white background on lists is a bit plain, and even WM built-in applications introduced some gradient to avoid that, but this is even more noticable on pages like the WMP gadget playing screen, where there is a lot of empty space. Great work! And working so well I'm keeping it installed on my main Smartphone until it gets replaced by the RTW version.

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2008
  One of the features introduced with Windows Vista which is rarely spoken about is Sideshow. In case you

• Anonymous
  August 07, 2008
  I first saw this announcement on twitter last week, that the Windows SideShow team had released a Developer

• Anonymous
  September 17, 2008
  Well, why is it limited only to WM5 and WM6 devices? My still very decent iPAQ 4150 running WinCE4.2/PPC2003 (without an upgrade path; thank you HP for pretecting my investment) could be a great candidate for a SideShow device. What does impose the limitation?

• Anonymous
  October 21, 2008
  Seems that it does not work when I am using windows server 2008 x64 as my base system. it asks for some driver I have no idea where to get from.