See SPOT develop . . . apps, that is

ENT News | at | by Mike

At Embedded World 2007 in Nuremberg, Germany Tuesday, Microsoft announced it is shipping a developers kit for the smallest of its device systems.

The .NET Micro Framework grew out of Microsoft's Smart Personal Objects Technology initiative, which was designed to support very small, embedded devices that do not have the resources to run a more full-function system like Windows Mobile.

Microsoft's .NET Micro Framework Software Developers Kit integrates with Visual Studio 2005, enabling SPOT devices developers to work in C# in a managed code environment, company officials and Microsoft documents said.