VS2005 has project types for creating MFC based ActiveX controls and MFC/ATL based COM dlls for smart devices. One of the errors users run into with these projects is that of deployment or registration failing with error 0x8007007e. One can be sure to...

In the recent past I have read deployment problems reported by users in smart device development forums. It was my observation that majority of the issues reported do not contain enough information to troubleshoot the problem. This will result in few...

In this post I am writing about a couple of things that I found greatly useful during deployment and debugging. In my next post I will discuss why developers needs to be aware of Windows Mobile OS limitations. 1. My device application writes to a log...

Here is my second blog post in the series on deployment related issues. So as to keep my blog small and easy to read, I will just concentrate on Windows Mobile Smartphone application security from the perspective of VS2005 developers. The remaining issues...

Hi, I am a developer working in Visual Studio for Devices group. In this my first blog post I will discuss few things related to application deployment that I have found useful myself as a developer. One of the most frequently used operation by VS2005...