Article ID: 196244 - Last Review: October 24, 2003 - Revision: 2.0

FIX: Developer Studio Settings for User Platforms Not Saved

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SYMPTOMS

If you modify the tools paths for a Windows CE platform in Developer Studio by selecting Tools--Options--Directories from the menu, the information is not saved when you exit Developer Studio.
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CAUSE

Some Windows CE Toolkit registry values are incorrectly reset when Developer Studio is started.
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RESOLUTION

To work around this problem:

  1. Close Developer Studio.
  2. Create the following two empty registry keys: 
          [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\DevStudio\5.0\Build System\ 
         Components\CE Configurations\H/PC Ver. 1.00\Win32 (WCE x86em)]

      [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\DevStudio\5.0\Build System\ 
         Components\CE Configurations\H/PC Ver. 1.01\Win32 (WCE x86em)]
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STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug was corrected in the Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual C++ 6.0 and the Microsoft Windows CE Platform Builder, version 2.11.
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APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual C++ 6.0
  • Microsoft Windows CE Embedded Toolkit for Visual C++ 5.0
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