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VS2005: You do need ActiveSync 4.x for device development

Recently a customer called me who was surprised that VS2005 asked for AS 4.x when he was trying to debug a CF project against a Windows Mobile 2003 PPC. Since this requirement does not seem to be officially documented anywhere (send me a link if you have counter-evidence :-), I asked the VSD team, and they posted a statement here.

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  • Anonymous
    February 21, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    April 19, 2006
    So... if I want to debug VS.net 2005 projects I HAVE to upgrade activesync - which I have now done - only to find out that network (wifi or ethernet) support is disabled... so I have to go back to a serial cable. Joy of joys.

    This has to be a joke, right?
  • Anonymous
    April 23, 2006
    David,

    we are aware of the fact that this causes some inconveniencies to some people. Other (security) reasons made us disable AS over ethernet. We are considering a range of possibilities to bring back a better debugging experience in a future release. For the time being, please follow the steps described in

    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms228708(VS.80).aspx

    to debug over an ethernet connection (no AS, though).

    HTH,

    FrankPr
  • Anonymous
    June 19, 2006
    This isn't much good. I require the use of my ipaq's port whilst debugging my software.... so I can't connect by serial or usb, only WIFI. So the fact that this has been taken out renders my new copy of Visual Studio 2005 fairly useless at the moment! If there are security problems with it (which I am not particularly bothered about right now) why not at least give the user the option of enabling or disabling network access??