Windows Mobile 6 Standard SDK Refresh install issue on Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 2

Question

When I install the Windows Mobile 6 Standard SDK Refresh I get the error:

Not Installed: Visual Studio 2005 SP1 or Later

I have Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 2 installed.

Please can you tell me how I can resolve this?

Answer 1

I don't know if there's any workaround for this particular case, but Visual Studio and its add-ons are in general notorious for requiring exact versions of all dependencies, leading to conflicts that often make it impossible to install the versions you want of everything.

Personally I keep a virtual machine for each Visual Studio environment to keep the dependencies happy. You might benefit from running either VS2010 or VS2005 or both in a VirtualBox/VirtualPC/VMware.

Answer 2

Install Visual Studio 2008, smart device development is not yet supported in VS2010 (well it definitely wasn't supported in beta 1, and I have seen anything contrary so far for beta 2)

VS2008 and VS2010 will co-exist on the same machine.