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November 20, 2008  
Subject: VS2005 project will not load - Windows Mobile platform issue
Group: microsoft.public.vstudio.general
Date: 8/19/2008 8:26:30 AM
From: Frank S [Email Address Protection]

I am trying to open a solution that was created on a different PC using Windows XP 32 bit and VS2005.

I get this error:

"The project consists entirely of configurations that require support for platforms which are not
installed on this machine. The project cannot be loaded."

The current PC is running Windows XP 64 bit edition, and has VS2005 and VS2008 installed.

I have recently installed these sdks:

Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC SDK.msi
Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone SDK.msi
Microsoft_Pocket_PC_2003_SDK.msi
Microsoft_SMARTPHONE_2003_SDK.msi

These sdks were installed when both VS2005 and VS2008 were already installed.
They should cover the required configurations, but something is obviously wrong.

How do I correct this problem?

Thanks,

Frank

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