Develop for windows ce / mobile in visual studio 2013

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Develop for windows ce / mobile in visual studio 2013

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I've done a lot of research on the web to find some solution to my problem, but all the tutorials (articles) I found were flawed for my solution.

MY CASE

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

In addition to 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. These I am able to migrate them to Visual Studio 2013. But, the above quoted I could not.

MY PROBLEM

Migrate the project smart device for 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.

Visual Studio 2008 already has the native smartdevice project option. In visual studio 2013 does not have this option. It has the category for Windows Phone projects, but does not have one for windows mobile 6.

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

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

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asked by anonymous 24.02.2015 / 16:26

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You can not do this migration. I already had the same problem and the only solution I had was to keep both versions of Visual Studio and to switch between them.

I found this answer for 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 did not find anything:

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If I were you I would not risk it, and I kept the two versions of VS.

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In Visual Studio 2013 you will not be able to develop for Windows Mobile 6, only for 8 onwards. Stay in Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 to continue with your project. I believe you will have no problems or obstacles in this regard. I hope I have helped.