Can't find project template Smartphone Magneto

Can't find project template Smartphone Magneto

• LeandroTubia

  Amit,
  
  Thanks for the reply. I did try this option but I cannot see the Windows Mobile 5.0 platforms (neither Smartphone nor the PPC). I have been struggling all weekend for this, installing and uninstalling stuff (which probably made it even wrose). Now I'm trying to install the RC version but I still cannot see those options when I create the project (installed using Default option not Custom).
  
  I'm sure something is wrong with the way I'm installing this but I can't find what I did disable the Anti-virus software which might block some scripts from running.
  
  Any clue
  
  Thanks,
  Uday
  
  

• withersd

  Hi Uday, Here is what you need to do.
  Start VS 2005
  Select File->New Project
  Select Project Type = Visual C# ->Smart Devices -> Pocket PC 2003
  Give it some name
  Press OK
  Now in the solution explorer Right Click on the name of the project
  You will see an option (towards the end) that says "Change Target Platform..."
  Select that
  You will see a dialog show up.
  In that select the Change To drop down to select "Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone SDK" (or PPC)
  
  If you see this in the list then the issue if that you did not select C++ when installing VS 2005 (Known bug in Beta 2)
  
  If you don't see this, then the Windows Mobile SDKs apparently have not been installed. I suggest close VS 2005 and re-install the SDk. Turn off any sofware that may block scripts for the duration of which the SDKs are installed.
  
  Hope this helps.
  Amit
  

• Vibhu Bansal

  Amit thanks for the quick reply. I'm quiet new to the .NET world so what you mean is that I should try to create a project for Pocket PC 2003 and change the target platform to PPC 5.0 Otherwise I cannot really see anything that says "Project Upgrade".
  
  Thanks,
  Uday
  
  PS: If you don't mind I would appreciate if you can give me a step by step approach to get this resolved. Again thanks for all your help.
  
  

• HaggaiS

  Workaround:
  
  I did find a workaround for this problem. I was able to install VS 2005 RC1 on another machine of mine (which was clean, i.e. there were no previous installation of VS) . I found that under C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\corecon\1.0\addons there were couple of files that were created when Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK was installed and for some reason these files were not added on the machine that I was having problems with no matter what I did (uninstalled every damn thing, VS 2005, SDK's, .NET framework etc...). I simply copied those two files to the same directory (I mentioned above) on the troubling machine and walla... it works now. Everything as expected.
  
  Hope no one will have to go through this painful experience in getting a simple thing working. Wasted about two days on this even though I would not consider myselves as a beginner/rookie.
  
  Thanks to Amit for all his help.
  
  Regards,
  Uday
  
  

• LPXO

  Are you using Beta 2 of Vs 2005 this usually happens if you had done a custom setup and not installed C++. We had a dependency in beta 2 on C++ on the machine which causes this issue.
  
  You can try one thing - create a NET CF 2.0 - PPC 2003 project and select Project upgrade. Then select Windows Mobile 5.0 PPC  - that will get you unblocked.
  
  Amit   
  
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