Do you ever wonder what it would be like to build you own Windows Mobile device? If you are like me you are probably a software person looking at the embedded world with more than a little trepidation. Come with me as I explain my journey building a Windows Mobile device to do in car entertainment.

In this session we'll talk through picking a device platform and things to look for in a design board. Once we've gone through that we will jump into Platform Builder and learn what it means to build a Windows Mobile platform to actually run your system. Lastly, we will actually build and test a .Net application running on the platform we have just built.

David White is a principal in GSD Telematics. GSD Telematics was formed in 2005 to provide a programmable platform for in vehicle Telematics for everyone. Before that he was an Architect in the Microsoft Industry Solution Group focusing on the Automotive and Industrial Equipment Vertical accounts. He has over 17 year's enterprise experience across many disparate platforms and has spent over 10 of that in the automotive industry. After spending time working on enterprise mainframe applications on MVS he moved to the Unix/VAX arena and then on to the Microsoft arena. He has used almost all the major development paradigms over this time (J2EE, DNA, CORBA, etc.) and advised customers on technology decisions related to development and architecture with regards to Microsoft products and how they fit into the customers overall architecture. He had been with Microsoft for 8 years.