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I am currently assigned to migrate an existing Smart Device application built using visual studio 2005. I tried to migrate the application to Visual Studio 2017 without changing the framework and settings. I have already spent some time doing some research but no luck so far.

This is the error I'm encountering:

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Any leads or advice is appreciated.

kRazzy R
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I guess you are talking Windows Mobile 6.x projects. Unfortunately,

support for mobile application development for versions of Windows Phone prior to Windows Phone 7.0

has been dropped with Visual Studio 2010.

The last version that supported this application type is Visual Studio 2008. Usually, you can install different versions of Visual Studio without problems. Nonetheless, this is a very old version and it might be worth to keep it on a separate machine.

You are stuck with Visual Studio 2005 or use VS2008. That's it.

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  • Thanks. As work around I install VS2008 the latest VS version support Smart Device apps and compile the solution that is using Smart device and generates a class library for that and add it as reference. I am still waiting for the actual device to use for testing. Hopefully it will work. – Jim Vans Jun 28 '18 at 01:12