Visual Studio 2008 - Windows CE 5.0 - The specified program requires a newer version of Windows

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Using Visual Studio 2008 to program apps in c++ for Windows CE 5.0. Any basic app runs in the emulator fine, but when I try to run it from the CE device I get

Unable to start program '%CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES%\test11\test11.exe'.
The specified program requires a newer version of Windows.

I'm pretty much a beginner at Visual Studio. I've looked all over the world on Google and can't seem to find a solution. I'm running Windows XP SP3.

Thanks in advance!

Posted 24-May-11 9:07am

MasterWill

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-May-11 16:15pm

Who knows what's in text11.exe? Only you know. So, how do you think anyone is supposed to help you?
--SA

Wild-Programmer 25-May-11 0:00am

LOL :D exactly.

MasterWill 25-May-11 8:00am

Sorry, I'm fairly new at this. Here's Hello2.cpp

#include "windows.h"
//
// Program entry point
//
int WINAPI WinMain (HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
LPWSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
{
MessageBox (NULL, TEXT ("Hello World"), TEXT ("Hello2"), MB_OK);
return 0;
}

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MasterWill · Answer 1 · 2011-05-26T10:13:00

Ok I reinstalled the Windows CE 5.0 Standard SDK, and it just now appears in
Visual Studio, seems to work now. I was assuming that Pocket PC 2003 was the
same thing and was attempting to run for that. So the root cause of the
problem is Microsoft's confusing naming convention.

However I still can't run from Embedded Visual C++ (SP4), I get a Platform
Builder error. I was looking on the Internet, and it appears that maybe I
have to create/install an SDK? WTF? Or something said that the machine name needs to start with a letter? I'm on a corporate network, not sure if I can change my machine name. Any insight would be greatly
appreciated.