Develop for windows ce/mobile in visual studio 2013

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I have done several searches on the web to find some solution to my problem, but, all tutorials (articles) I found, were flawed for my solution.

MY CASE

I currently own several smart device project projects (Device Application), for windows mobile 6 and windows ce, developed in the IDE Visual Studio 2008 R2 (.NET Compact Framework 3.5)

Besides this project I also have several others: Webservice Application(asmx), WCF, Web Application, Windows Application, ... All of them were formerly developed in Visual Studio 2008. Those I manage to migrate them to Visual Studio 2013. But, the aforementioned I could not.

MY PROBLEM

Migrate the smart device project to windows mobile 6 from visual studio 2008 to visual studio 2013. The visual studio 2013, I could not open the project, and it does not present the smartdevice option when creating a new project.

In visual studio 2008 already has native option for smartdevice project. No visual studio 2013 tem está opção. Possui a categoria para projetos Windows Phone, mas, não possui um para windows mobile 6.

So what I really want is an option in visual studio 2013 to create projects for windows mobile 6.

*Note: I managed to find an SDK that is for windows mobile 8 projects, but I need for windows mobile 6 and windows ce as well.

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  • And your problem is? You just wrote that you have a problem. We all have several. Detail your problem, error message, situation, etc.

  • As mentioned in: "But, the aforementioned I could not". What it says, that I managed I could not migrate the project from visual studio 2008 to 2013, which is the project to smart device for windows mobile 6. I will make a change in the context to be clearer.

  • And the error displayed was?

  • I have made more changes in the scope of the question. I hope that it will be more objective. With this, the release of it, because, I need a solution to the same.

  • @Diegomoreno cannot use VS 2013 for this. Support for . net Compact depends on a combination of OS, the version of . net Compact and the corresponding VS. For this specific project you will need to continue using VS2008 and due to the fact that it is an old technology unlikely that microsoft will still support it.

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    See this scenario here. Might help you out.

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We can’t do this migration. I’ve been through the same problem and the only solution I had was to keep both versions of Visual Studio and switch between both.

I found this answer a similar issue in stackoverflow-en.

There seems to be a way to configure VS2012 to work with Windows CE 6/7...but for VS2013 I found nothing:

http://geekswithblogs.net/WernerWillemsens/archive/2013/09/13/building-windows-ce-6-or-7-smart-device-application-with.aspx

http://geekswithblogs.net/WernerWillemsens/archive/2013/09/13/154016.aspx

I wouldn’t risk it if I were you, and I’d keep both versions of VS.

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In Visual Studio 2013 you won’t be able to develop for Windows Mobile 6, only for 8 onwards. Stay at Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 to continue with your project. I believe you will not have problems or obstacles in this regard. I hope I have helped you.

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