Hey everyone, I'm new to this forum, but quite adept with VB and am getting into VB2005. I've just purchased the Acer n50 Premium PDA, which comes with the Windows Mobile 2003 SE OS and have therefore downloaded the SDK for it, which states you can develop applications for the OS under VB.NET 2003. I was wondering however, how can I do it under VB2005
I'm aware that what I'm using of VB2005 is Beta 2, but is there a way to relate the SDK to it
I think I'll need an application template for "SmartDevice Application" but I'm not too sure!
Any help is appreciated; thanks for your time.
VB2005 & Windows Mobile 2003 SE
john mcgartland
Kayron -
You can develop applications for your Windows Mobile PDA using Visual Studio 2005, but this functionality is not included in the Visual Basic Express Edition. You can however get the Visual Studio Standard Edition which includes templates for "Smart Device Applications".
Th smart device functionality was left out of the Express editions primarily becuase of size constraints. Including Smart Device programmability would have at least quadrupled the size of the Express product which didn't fit well with the goal of producing a small, lightweight IDE.
Take a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/getthebetas/ for getting copies of the Beta of the non-Express version.
Thanks,
Luke Hoban
Visual C# IDE Program Manager