I recently completed some prototyping with a customer around the new mobile features of Visual Studio 2005 using the May preview. I thought it would make an interesting post with some of the screen shots and the things that struck me.

At the onset using the smart device application is fairly straight forward.

The emulators have changed significantly. This includes the ability to have multiple states and emulators.

The most startling visual difference was around the actual picture of the device within the IDE. This skin is completely customizable.

You can even interact with the device skin. If you notice, as I hold the cursor over it, the fact that it is a power button comes up.

Not only can I hover on it. But when I click it, I end up directly in the code that handles it!