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Windows Mobile developer support in VS2010? YES!!!

Recently, because of an ill-worded product description in the VS2010 Smart Devices up on MSDN, MANY folks have been going crazy saying "it's the end of the world for Windows Mobile."

Well, I am here to tell you that that could NOT be farther from the truth.

There will be support for Windows Mobile devolvement in Visual Studio 2010.  You have to remember that the release of VS2010 is a BETA...not all things are baked or ready to be shipped with it.

Also, remember that every version of the Windows Mobile SDK has, to date, shipped out-of-band from the major VS release.  So, this really should not be a big surprise.

As for the official line:

We are absolutely committed to making Visual Studio a great development tool for the Mobile developer. For existing Visual Studio 2008 developers, we will be releasing a new Windows Mobile 6.5 emulator in the upcoming months [weeks hopefully - Hegenderfer] that works with the Windows Mobile 6 SDK. This provides a great solution for existing developers. We will deliver Mobile device tooling for Visual Studio 2010 but we can’t share details at this time.

I hope this helps reassure some folks :)

Posted: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 5:11 PM by hegenderfer
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# May 26, 2009 12:54 PM

Kevin Daly said:

That's good news...but it just leaves the current rather unsatisfactory situation.

I hope someone within the company could promote the idea that in view of Microsoft's new and welcome recognition that "Holy cow, there's a non-Enterprisey world out there!" it's time for smart device development options to be added to down-level versions of Visual Studio - preferably an Express version, but at the very least include it in Standard. Remember you are competing for developer mindshare with platforms whose development tools are *free* (the decision to omit device options from VS 2008 Standard might have come out differently if it had taken into account the people who were not developing for Windows Mobile at all,  because of the expense of Visual Studio - in which case whoever made that decision made the situation *worse*).

# May 26, 2009 3:50 PM

hegenderfer said:

Kevin, you and I both :)

# May 26, 2009 6:54 PM

ReedR said:

What Steve said! =)

-Reed

# May 27, 2009 10:50 AM

ssholst said:

Also - and perhaps a bit under the radar - the following features are also included in VS2010 (and included in the beta 1 release) - Please note, these work on the compact framework. Dotfuscator CE has been extended to support the injection (post-build) of

* Feature and session monitoring (streaming usage data to a developer-specified endpoint),

* Application expiry dates,

* Tamper defense and notification and

* Opt-in/Opt-out logic.

Microsoft first announced this functionality at PDC2008

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-27PreEmptivePR.mspx

If you want a detailed walk through (including vs2010 b1 screen shots), check out Bill Leach’s blog entry at http://blogs.preemptive.com/post/Whate28099s-new-with-Dotfuscator-in-Visual-Studio-2010-Beta-1.aspx

# May 29, 2009 4:32 PM

timlayton said:

Yes, I was sure that visual studio 2010 would have support for windows mobile development.  Historically this has come in the form of an SDK, but either way, it is great to know for sure that mobile developers will be ready to go for future versions of win mbl development.

# June 1, 2009 5:00 PM

tech66 said:

I'd like to know what/when we can use Silverlight or WPF when developing mobile applications.  

# June 10, 2009 9:14 PM
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