This information ONLY applies to the Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Without the help of ActiveSync, VS 2005 does not automatically copy the connectivity binaries down to the device and hence debugging becomes problematic. In order to use debugger on...

If you try to use Remote Spy that shipped with Beta 2, you will get this error The specified service does not exisit as an installed service. There is a bug in Beta 2 that prevents Remote Spy from working. No workaround at this point. Thanks...

If you have run into any setup failure, the first thing you should do is save the logs. The Logs for Visual Studio 2005 are stored in the following place. In addition to this, if the Device Emulator setup failed or you are getting that Virtual Machine...

And I get one of these these errors: "The system cannot find the path specified." or "Cannot connect to device 0x80070003" or The Smart Device Smartphone Package ({CC199C95-8D28-4A1D-B4BC-760E4E4CEE5B}) did not load because of previous errors...

Beta 2 of Visual Studio does include the Remote Tools though they don't show up in the Visual Studio IDE. To get to them go to Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft Visual Studio Beta 2 -> Visual Studio Remote Tools and all the Tools are listed...

Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2, will not work with Version 3.7 or 3.8 of Active Sync. We are in the process of making a later version available shortly and as soon as the download sites has it, I will update this page from where you can download it. Thanks...

This offer will not hold for long ! So pls register as quickly as you can ! Based on the success of our last promotion, the Microsoft MEDC team have kindly extended a special offer to blog readers. The first fifty people to sign up for MEDC 2005 using...

I am please to share with the readers of this blog that Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 is now available. http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/get/ has the details on how to get this. If you had been using a previous release of this product, pls make sure you...

I spent all day today on location as part of the filming process for an episode of The Code Room . Hop on over to my MEDC2005 space for a picture and some details. [Author: Neil Enns]

I've been tapped to get up on stage with BillG at MEDC 2005 to show off a bunch of new Visual Studio stuff. Eek. I'm blogging about the experience over in a new MSN Space, which hopefully be able to fill up with a ton of pictures of the prep work. My...