A year has passed since I received the first Microsoft MVP award on Windows Embedded and a few days ago (on April 1st) I received the more exciting email you might expect ... the renewal !

My "role" as MVP has allowed me to be at the summit in November in Redmond at the Microsoft headquarter and for me it was an awesome experience, knowing the team that works on IoT and all those people with whom I had only "virtual" contacts.

Thanks to all those who have continued to believe in me and consider me worthy of this award.

As for me I will continue with maximum effort, hoping that next year will be here again to write the same post !

In part-4 of this getting started series, we will talk about the application development environment for Compact 2013 and work through the steps to develop a console C# application from Visual Studio 2013 IDE and deploy the application to the target device, EduCake, for testing and debug.

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Few days ago Microsoft was included in the ranking of the 10 most innovative companies of 2015 as part of the Internet of Things and this result can not be absolutely considered a case. Most likely, the main reasons that have enabled Microsoft to achieve this great result are two : The announcement of an operating system like Windows 10 that is able to run on any kind of device, from embedded systems, smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles and finally to the PC; The wide Microsoft Azure cloud services offer through which you can "accommodate" and analyze in real time the huge amount of data from the "things"; The Microsoft offer for the Internet of Things covers everything from embedded device (the "T") to the Cloud (the "I") failing to provide a solution under one "hat".   What are the available technologies ? How can we really "bring" our "things" in the Cloud and make them an integral part of the Internet of "Your" Things as it was renamed by Microsoft ...

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As part of any sizable software development project, the need to perform repetitive testing and debugging tasks is a common routine.  As part of a project to develop custom OS runtime image for a target device, deploying OS runtime image onto the target device for testing and debugging is one of the repetitive tasks.  Without the tool to download the OS runtime image to the target device, it’s tedious and time consuming to have to manually transfer the image onto the device for each test and debug session.

Compact 2013 provides an efficient development environment that enables you to download OS runtime image, generated from the OS design project, directly from the Visual Studio IDE to the target device for testing and debugging.  In addition, the Compact 2013 development environment also provide a suite of tools to remotely debug the OS runtime image as the image execute on the device.

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