Windows Mobile - Creating a new project in Visual Studio

This post aims at providing an easy and quick instruction to prepare a development environment for developing and debugging Windows Mobile 6.0 applications and creating a test application.

Requirements:

• Visual Studio 2008 (Visual Studio 2008 - Trial Software): make sure you have latest service packs installed.
  
• Windows Mobile 6 SDKs (Mobile 6 Professional and Standard Software Development Kits Refresh): Please note this has to be installed after Visual Studio 2008 as otherwise it might not work properly.

Creating a test application:

Summary: File >> New Project.. >> Visual C++ >> Smart Device >> Win32 Smart Device Project >> Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional SDK >> Windows application >> Finish

Details: from Visual Studio file menu click on “New Project..”, select “Visual C++” and then “Smart Device” form the left panel,

choose “Win32 Smart Device Project” and create your test project by entering the name for your project and clicking on the OK button. Now you need to complete a

wizard, click Next, remove

Windows Mobile 5.0 from the right list and add “Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional SDK” from the left list, click on Finish.

Resources: msdn Windows Mobile