Visual Studio For Devices

VS 2005 SP1 is now available !

Yes VS 2005 SP1 is now available for download. Here are some useful links I wanted to share. VSTS patches download http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bb4a75ab-e2d4-4c96-b39d-37baf6b5b1dc&DisplayLang=en Express patches download Read More...

Posted Monday, December 18, 2006 3:14 PM by MobileDevGroup | 2 Comments

Sample code for the MSDN Webcast: Creating Custom Controls for Managed Code with Design Time Support in Visual Studio 2005

A few day back Xin had presented a WebCast on MSDN Webcast: Creating Custom Controls for Managed Code with Design Time Support in Visual Studio 2005. The demo code and additional information can be downloaded from here . Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 8:48 AM by MobileDevGroup | 2 Comments

Feb CTP and Device Development

If you are a device developer (or evaluating device development in VS 2005) please continue to use the November CTP for that. Information on November CTP and the patches needed is also in given our blog below. Thanks Amit Chopra Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:27 AM by MobileDevGroup | 14 Comments

Visual Studio 2005 and developing for CE based devices

A number of people have been trying to get this information on newsgroups and other means so I thought it would be nice to put a blog to provide an answer to CE support question. VS2005 will support both Managed (VB,C#) and Native Development (C++) for Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 02, 2005 12:04 PM by MobileDevGroup | 5 Comments

VS2003 and Device Development

This came up on one of the C# Frequently Asked Questions site where a customer was unable to determine if the standard SKU for Visual Studio 2003 supported Device development or not. Smart device development is available in all editions of Visual Studio Read More...

Posted Monday, January 24, 2005 5:06 PM by MobileDevGroup | 1 Comments

'The Device Bits in December CTP are older than November CTP' - How and Why does this happen ?

I recently responded to a customer's question with a note saying that the device bits in the December CTP are older than the November CTP. I am sure the next logical question people would have in mind would be - how and why would that happen. I'll make Read More...

Posted Tuesday, December 28, 2004 2:51 PM by MobileDevGroup | 8 Comments

A Patch for the November CTP (VS 2005, Standard)

http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/1/6/116F9AB8-BEBE-425D-A81E-0603BCE6DA2E/SmartDeviceProject.msi If you build a managed VB or C# .NET CF Application using the November CTP and then press F5 or CRTL+F5 to deploy the application, currently it fails Read More...

Posted Tuesday, December 28, 2004 11:09 AM by MobileDevGroup | 16 Comments