Hello, hello.

I’m trying something new today. When I first put this site up, one of my intentions was to do video tutorials along with the audio show, and I finally got around to putting one of the tutorials together this afternoon.

It’s aimed at people who are new to developing for devices. I figure that some familiarity with the tools might make it easier for people to get into the audio show.

The focus of this twenty minute demo is developing a simple PocketPC application using VS 2005 and one of the built-in emulators. Note, however, that if you have VS 2003, you’ll still be able to follow along. Your emulator will be different, and you won’t have as many whiz-bang features, but the basic concepts are the same.

It’s just about twenty minutes in length, and comes in at a little under twenty megs, which is nice.

The one problem, which won’t happen again in the future (still learning how to do this), was a portion of audio that went totally nuts. The CPU got hit really hard while I was starting up the PocketPC emulator, and it basically put the audio through a sort of washing machine. It came out the other end garbled. So, I had to snip a small portion of the tutorial (nothing big – just waiting for the emulator to load).

There are also a couple very small audio glitches outside that, but nothing that should ruin your day. I’ve since figured out how to avoid this problem in the future, so it won’t happen again.

You can download the show here [wmv].

Enjoy, and let me know what you think :)