Visual Studio 2010 does not support mobile application development for versions of Windows Phone prior to Windows Phone OS 7.0.
For information about using Visual Studio 2010 to create applications for Windows Phone OS 7.0, see Windows Phone Development and Silverlight for Windows Phone.
For Visual Studio 2008 mobile developers, Microsoft released the Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Tool Kit, which works with the Windows Mobile 6 SDK.
Because Visual Studio 2010 does not support mobile application development for Windows Phone prior to Windows Phone OS 7.0, you cannot use the following features: .NET Compact Framework projects, Visual C++ device projects, smart device CAB projects, Device Emulator and Device Emulator Manager, testing tools for device projects, and Device Security Manager.
Mobile application development is still supported in earlier versions of Visual Studio, such as Visual Studio 2008. For more information about smart device projects, see Windows Mobile Developer Center and Smart Device Development in Visual Studio 2008.
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Visual Studio also supports a different kind of device development known as Mobile Web development with ASP.NET. Mobile Web development refers to the development of mobile Web applications that run on a Web server and are rendered in different formats on a variety of browser-equipped mobile devices. For more information about Mobile Web development, see ASP.NET Web Sites for Mobile Devices. |
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2010/jun10/06-17EnterpriseHandheld.mspx
- 6/17/2010
- OrionSmith
I remember when DEC computers who had Vax computers had a catalog full of good products went the way of the Dodo when they did not move with the times. It wasn't the products, it was how they sold it.
Its the same with Microsoft and Windows Mobile, they went to sleep at the steering wheel like many computer companies before them.
Many commentators who make stupid statements about the windows mobile operating system being old and tired don't really understand what they are talking about but they seem to make the decisions for Microsoft. The vision is lost; is this because Bill has left the building?
HTC with the HD2 and their HTC sense has made some effort in putting some pizaz back into Windows Mobile, but they can't do it alone.
Microsoft should look to keep their existing loyal base of followers who have been using Windows Mobile advanced features, including SQL databases, multi tasking and supporting this properly in the future. It seems Microsoft's strategy for Mobile data is in tatters and they are playing follow the leader and catchup. I hope they get their act together very soon and give some direction, it may be time to learn how to program with Mono (C#) and target iPhone and Android
Terry
- 6/16/2010
- Terry Fogg
I remember when DEC computers who had Vax computers had a catalog full of good products went the way of the Dodo when they did not move with the times. It wasn't the products, it was how they sold it.
Its the same with Microsoft and Windows Mobile, they went to sleep at the steering wheel like many computer companies before them.
Many commentators who make stupid statements about the windows mobile operating system being old and tired don't really understand what they are talking about but they seem to make the decisions for Microsoft. The vision is lost; is this because Bill has left the building?
HTC with the HD2 and their HTC sense has made some effort in putting some pizaz back into Windows Mobile, but they can't do it alone.
Microsoft should look to keep their existing loyal base of followers who have been using Windows Mobile advanced features, including SQL databases, multi tasking and supporting this properly in the future. It seems Microsoft's strategy for Mobile data is in tatters and they are playing follow the leader and catchup. I hope they get their act together very soon and give some direction, it may be time to learn how to program with Mono (C#) and target iPhone and Android
Terry
- 6/16/2010
- Terry Fogg
But in enterprise applications, Windows Mobile is where it is at. You can't just drop this whole side of the mobile scene to try and "rescue" the consumer side. Many enterprise devices come with Windows Mobile and will not be able to upgrade to Windows Phone 7.
MS has constantly miss-managed the Mobile side of their offerings. The fact that they are dropping all of their existing Mobile support for a new OS that is not market place tested is just another indicator of that. It would really be funny to me if I was not in a passenger car on this train wreck of a decision.
I have a brand new app that I am beginning to roll out. Before the app is even past Beta stage it is already a "legacy" app because I will need to keep a VS 2008 version around to maintain it for however many years it is in service.
I mean really MS, sure Windows Mobile lost to the iPhone, but that doesn't mean you can just abandon it for the thousands and thousands of people who you convinced to jump on the bandwagon.
Now, last of all, I know that Microsoft will not read this. They make their decisions way up in the stratosphere and we are left to accept or hide from the rain that they cause. And just like rainclouds, they don't care what kind of muddy mess they cause to individuals.
But, I feel a bit better for having written this, so there you go.
- 6/11/2010
- Congenital Optimist
- 6/11/2010
- Vaccanoll
- 6/10/2010
- ssanchezz23
Talk about the Emporer's new clothes.
- 6/8/2010
- BClegg
How am I supposed to maintain these projects? This is absurd.
- 6/3/2010
- Nicholas Piasecki
- 6/2/2010
- OrionSmith
Congratulation, you just hooked me off. Thinking about Android and A***** - I'll go to lottery to be able to retire. VS2010 looks nice, but I really was so stupid to believe that it would handle the mobiles as before. And I was told so from MS employants. I'm sure that I will have only ONE IDE installed for my development. REALLY SURE.
So this decision will either be undone or MS will go down with that. Sell your MS stocks, folks!
Mick
- 5/30/2010
- 70RP3D0
- 5/25/2010
- jbarker
This is the worst move since the release of Windows ME.
We will never install VS2010 in this company or the next.
- 5/25/2010
- Cengiz Can
- 5/25/2010
- Cengiz Can
- 5/24/2010
- Mark Lear
- 5/24/2010
- vantibus
http://blogs.technet.com/microsoft_blog/archive/2010/04/07/windows-embedded-business-aligning-handheld-terminals-and-ruggedized-devices.aspx
If so, can an industrial application developed for a current "handheld terminal and ruggedized device" running Windows Mobile soon be re-compiled using a future Windows CE SDK in Visual Studio 2010 and still work in the former Windows Mobile on that device?
- 5/17/2010
- OrionSmith
MS, you are NOT serving your customers well in this, it is a catastrophic and very short sighted decision and one which you will regret. In one move you have cut off 99% of your active smart phone developers, shut them in a box with no migration path and consigned thier past efforts to the dustbin.
There are no WM 7 phones out yet. My HTC HD2 which was the most advanced phone out when I bought it is not even going to be able to upgrade to WM7 when it ships. Talk about a stupid idea.
Utterly barmy!
Get a grip, and get back to supporting your developer community in full!
- 5/17/2010
- Iain G Stevenson
What kind of decision is this???
- 4/30/2010
- José Joye
1. No SqlCe on WP7
2. No ADO.NET Sync on WP7
3. No ability to deploy a application directly to WP7 without app store (My application is dynamic, constantly sucking new DLL's and files from a server daily)
4. No multitasking in WP7 (I have three applications 2 background running in sync with each other)
5. And the obvious... No WP7 phone exists!
- 4/27/2010
- Omad
- 4/26/2010
- Andy Wilbourn
- 4/20/2010
- Keith Hill