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Asked: 2026-05-22T21:31:09+00:00

OK, everyone knows that Windows Mobile Development has been abandoned by Microsoft’s Visual Studio

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OK, everyone knows that Windows Mobile Development has been abandoned by Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team when it came to Visual Studio 2010.

Instead, we are supposed to use the Windows 7 Phone SDK.

Meanwhile, our manufacturing plant still has hundreds of the older Windows Mobile 5 and 6 handheld devices for scanning packages and transmitting data over our internal wireless network.

So, is there an alternate method of developing under Visual Studio 2010 that would create an application that can be run under one of these older platforms?

Specifically, I’m thinking something web based, like a Silverlight app. To my knowledge, Silverlight does not run on Windows Mobile 5 or 6, but that gets the idea across.

I hate telling my boss at the meetings that Microsoft shafted us and left everyone with hundreds of $1000 bricks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t think there’s an official way of using VS2010 for older mobile development. Instead, it’s suggested that you stick with VS2008 or VS2005 SE for development.

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