views:

47

answers:

2

Is there anything blackberry related that can be used in Visual Studio 2010?|

A: 

you can see all the required information here

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/

PaulStack
+3  A: 

You can use Visual Studio to develop rich Web Application for the Blackberry Smartphone.

There's no way to develop blackberry native Apps using visual studio. For native apps you have two choices:

1) Blackberry JDE (Java Development Environment) A swing IDE specialized for Blackberry development. It is a bit heavy, it miss lot of cool features (refactoring, svn integration) but it does the job. It is really usefull in the process of "signing" your application with RIM

2) Eclipse Plugin IMHO this is a better choice for development, you'll get all the benefits of eclipse and a nice Blackberry emulator

Dani Cricco
Isn't the JDE based on Eclipse as well? As such it should be possible to install any missing features as plugins.
Joachim Sauer
The JDE is not based on Eclipse, it is a fully standalone application.
Dani Cricco