At my third MEDC I've notice a huge transition to managed code with just about every speaker opening up Visual Studio.. Three years ago at the last Embedded DevCon I talked about the DotNet community and our enthusiastic embrace of the CLR, but the hard core C++ device developers still spoke in source code...
Visual Studio Orcas is progressing nicely and the DotNet Framework 3.5 is bringing the mobile and embedded developers into our inclusive community..
Amit Chopra gave this talk at MEDC on how to be more productive when developing for Windows Mobile and CE 6 based devices.
See it in Flash here, Sliverlight coming soon....