Visual Studio 2005-Connecting Windows CE.NET Device

Hi Guys

I am trying to install a Visual Basic 2005 application on a windows CE.NET device. I cannot see a CE.NET device in the list so I tried selecting Windows CE 5.0. It gave me a message cannot create a file as the file name already exists.

Is there any option to connect to a Windows CE.NET device

Any inputs will be highly appreciated.



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Visual Studio 2005-Connecting Windows CE.NET Device

  • imzi

    Correct. Keep in mind VS 2005 does not officially support CE 4.2 devices even with NETCF V2 SP1, so it might fail. In that case you should be able to deploy your application manually and run it. Also, your CE 4.2 device must have all dependencies required by NETCF V2 in order to run. If particular device does not have all required dependencies, it’s NETCF V2 incompatible.



  • Mooney6959

    CE 4.x (AKA CE.Net) is not supported by VS 2005. NETCF V2 SP1 currently in beta would add CE 4.2 runtime support. Please see this for more info:

    http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=362741&SiteID=1



  • Mijoal

    Thank you for the reply

    So I need to install NETCF V2 SP1 on the Windows CE.NETdevice and select Windows CE 5.0 in VS 2005 and then try to run my application


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