If you experices difficulties with creating a new Visual C++ Smart Device project in your Visual Studio 2005 (symptoms: submitting required inputs like project name, path, etc. in “New Project” dialog, “New Project” displays again without creating anything), that’s the way how to fix it quickly:

1. Close VS
2. Start RegEdit.exe
3. Find the following registry entry:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
   \CurrentVersion\Ext\PreApproved
4. Add a new entry and name it
   {D245F352-3F45-4516-B1E6-04608DA126CC}
5. Close RegEdit
6. Start VS
7. Try and create a Smart Device C++ project

This is a known Visual Studio bug, which is caused by IE7 at your system. The other possibilities for fixing it are to install Visual Studion SP1 or to remove IE7 from your computer.

June 24th, 2008 at 3:43 pm | category: Microsoft .net