Developing for Windows 6.5

Question

Hi All

I have just got a new company mobile and would like to begin developing apps for the HTC HD2 Mobile Phone. However, when I downloaded Microsoft Windows Phone Developer Tools, it pretty much said right at the end of installation that "Setup could not install correctly", and I clicked on "more", and it said "Silverlight 4.0 could not install correctly". So, the fact that Windows Phone Dev Tools couldn't install completely was because of this Silverlight 4 that couldn't install!

Has anyone had the same problems, if so, how did you resolve this issue (if you did)?

And... Is there another way to develop applications for mobile phones running the Windows Operating System other than XNA and Windows Dev Tools? Even better... Could it be done simply using the current Visual Studio Express C# Edition I already have?

Thanks All

Answer 1

Do you want to develop for Windows Mobile 6.5? If so, you need Visual Studio 2008 and the Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Tool Kit

The Microsoft Windows Phone Developer Tools you downloaded is to develop for Windows Phone 7, the next version of Windows for smartphones. You won't be able to target WM6.5 with it.

Answer 2

If you want to develop on HTC HD2 which have Windows Mobile 6.5, you must download Windows Mobile 6 SDK (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=06111a3a-a651-4745-88ef-3d48091a390b&displaylang=en) and probably Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Tool Kit.

You need also need Windows Mobile Device Center if you don't have it already.

Windows Phone Developer Tools which you downlaoded is for development on Windows Phone 7.