Category Archives: Visual Studio

WinCE development without Active Sync on Win 7

Posted on 1 August, 2011 by Simeon

At the start of the year I was given a device to do trial Windows CE development against. I was also given a zip file with the SDK and some instructions. Step 1: Install Active Sync 4.5 on your Windows … Continue reading →

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Post VS2010 SP1 Updates Issue

Posted on 5 May, 2011 by Simeon

Since installing the Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2010, my .sln files for Visual Studio 2005 have not been opening. This turns out to be, because I had VS2005 set to need Admin Privileges to run, to allow some … Continue reading →

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WinCE SDK problems in Windows 7

Posted on 28 January, 2011 by Simeon

For the last few weeks, my work project has not been building it’s WinCE target on my new Windows 7 PC. Each project would just say “skipping build”, and if I tried to edit the project properties (or build/clean/rebuild project … Continue reading →

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Book: Lex & Yacc

Posted on 27 June, 2009 by Simeon

I picked up a copy of Lex & Yacc off TradeMe the yesterday, and I’m quite excited. I’m hoping it will help me get my head around parser writing, for my still to-be revealed side project… For a while now … Continue reading →

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Installing Visual Studio 2008

Posted on 6 December, 2007 by Simeon

I have finished now, but I have to say there was something creepy about the two male photos used. One looked too happy and the other too smooth.  What made it worse was that it kept changing and my attention … Continue reading →

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