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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
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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 Amit
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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
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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. For assistance,
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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
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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
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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
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Robert's posted a nice little write-up over at the Windows Mobile blog on the different tools available for developing apps on Pocket PC and Smartphone devices. This is a bit of a tricky subject, since depending on the release of Windows Mobile you're
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Another great question from the Smartphone developer newsgroup today. The gist of it is: "Why does the Smartphone home screen pop in front of my application every 10 minutes, and how can I stop it?" The Smartphone Home screen pops forward after the device
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MSDN has a new article up on migrating your application from one Windows Mobile version to another. To ensure we are providing maximum information to our developer community, this article addresses a few of the most common issues and frequently asked
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Every so often someone asks on either an internal alias or our public newsgroup about the right way to establish a data connection using the Compact Framework. Most of the time you don't have to do this since many of the built-in classes will bring up
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At a partner event yesterday I was asked if it was possible to generate compressed CAB files for Smartphone and Pocket PC. It turns out the answer is yes and no. All Smartphone devices support compressed CAB files, and cabwizsp.exe (the tool for creating
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Over in the news:microsoft.public.smartphone.developer newsgroup today someone asked a common question: "When I'm developing for Smartphone in eVC, which processor should I select?". The answer is straightforward: ARMv4. All Pocket PC and Smartphone devices
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One of the most requested features on the Smartphone developer newsgroups is for a camera API. We're working on one for the next release of Smartphone, but until then check out the new wrapper released by the folks at OpenNETCF.org. Neil Cowburn has a
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“Where are the APIs for programming Windows Media Player on Smartphone?“ This question has come up a couple of times in recent weeks on news:microsoft.public.smartphone.developer . Unfortunately the answer is “there isn't one at the
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