In June and July, I discussed the .NET Micro Framework, the Tahoe Board, and the Tahoe SDK. Since then, the Tahoe SDK has been updated, and Microsoft Press has published Embedded Programming with the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework, by Donald Thompson and Rob S. Miles (288 pp., ISBN 9780735623651, $44.99). If you downloaded the .NET Micro Framework and had trouble getting started, then Embedded Programming If you downloaded the .NET Micro Framework and had trouble getting started, then Embedded Programming with the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework is exactly the book to get you going.Don Thompson, a former professional Hollywood child actor, directed the Ubiquitous Computing team effort at Microsoft Research, later called the SPOT initiative, which led to the .NET Micro Framework. Rob Miles works in the Computer Science department of the University of Hull, in England. Together they lay out the .NET Micro Framework in an engaging way.The book also contains some case studies by other people. One is by Steve Maillet, CTO of Embedded Fusion, and is all about the genesis of the Ball-in-Maze game and the Tahoe board. The other is by Rick Swaney, a developer in the Mobile PC group at Microsoft, and discusses Vista Sideshow gadgets. Software Development