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From: Stefan Michels on 31 Oct 2005 02:15
Hi there i have VS 2003 installed . Now i must develop for a pocket pc who
has Windows Mobile 5.0 installed.
Can i use VS 2003 and the Mobile 5.0 SDK or must i install Visual Studio
2005 and the Mobile 5.0 SDK ?

Greetings


From: Peter Foot [MVP] on 31 Oct 2005 03:43
The WM5.0 SDK requires Visual Studio 2005. A .NETCF app you write with
VS2003 should run on WM5.0 so long as you haven't called into any device
specific functionality not available under WM5.0 - but you would have to
debug using the PPC2002/2003 emulators. If WM5.0 is your sole target
platform you will gain a lot by using Visual Studio 2005, you'll need
standard edition or higher.

Peter

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"Stefan Michels" <smichels(a)gmx.net> wrote in message
news:OSAYzqe3FHA.3136(a)TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi there i have VS 2003 installed . Now i must develop for a pocket pc who
> has Windows Mobile 5.0 installed.
> Can i use VS 2003 and the Mobile 5.0 SDK or must i install Visual Studio
> 2005 and the Mobile 5.0 SDK ?
>
> Greetings
>
>


From: "Michael Gledhill" <mikeg @ extendsys . on 1 Nov 2005 05:15

If you can get away with it, stick to using VS2003, when developing
for WM2003 & WM2005 devices.

Even with the new "VS2005 Pro" release, this latest version is incredibly
slow and painful to use.

Yesterday, I upgraded the memory on my 3.2GHz P4 Dell PC to 2Gb
of memory. Even with a power-horse like that, my PC grinds to an
absolute half every time I kick off a build. And, after freshly building
your application, you hit F5 to run it... and it goes off and builds it all
over again.

In my humble opinion, it's Microsoft's worst development environment
for mobile devices ever ;-(

(Which is a shame, as VS2003 was Microsoft's best ever..)


Mike



"Stefan Michels" wrote:

> Hi there i have VS 2003 installed . Now i must develop for a pocket pc who
> has Windows Mobile 5.0 installed.
> Can i use VS 2003 and the Mobile 5.0 SDK or must i install Visual Studio
> 2005 and the Mobile 5.0 SDK ?
>
> Greetings
>
>
>
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