Over the past few years, I'm sure I have lost a good few hours of my life configuring the Windows Mobile device emulator to give me Internet connectivity.

I work on lots of different client sites using different networks and sometimes no network at all (i.e on the train)

The Windows Mobile device emulator is a fantastic bit of kit, once up and running but switching between different networks has caused lots of pain for me in the past (think you are on stage in half an hour to demonstrate SQL Compact and the emulator wont connect to Internet, kind of scary)

So really pleased to see the release of the Device Emulator version 2.0

Download link and info here -

http://blogs.msdn.com/anandba/archive/2007/03/13/device-emulator-v2-is-live.aspx

The other great bit of news,  is that Anand Balachanran has put up a post that seems to resolve the working with different networking scenario's on Vista.

Here

http://blogs.msdn.com/anandba/archive/2007/03/13/networking-support-on-device-emulator-in-vista.aspx

So will I save hours of my life,  well I'll report back in a day or so...