And the fun continues in my attempt to play with my SmartPhone. After Whidbey didn’t work I decided maybe it’s best to stick to a release version of the SmartPhone SDK. 59 megs of installation later the SDK is installed and running in VS.NET 2003.

I start to create my smart phone test form which is supposed to pull down and push up some data from a Web Service. To minimize data transfer I make a few changes to the Web Service with a customized result that returns only a limited set of fields in a special entity.

Finally I’m ready to compile and -  anti-climax sound please – I get a nice fat compile error:

Could not instantiate resource processor

Fabulous. After a few tests I determine that the resource processor must be the one specific to the SmartPhone SDK, because I can still build WinForm applications, so it doesn’t appear to be a VS.NET install issue.

Googling wasn’t much help either. Aside from a couple of hits on ‘reinstall VS’ there were only a bunch of orphaned messages on several message boards. Anybody have any idea?

Other notes: Whidbey (Nov CTP) is also installed on this box.

This is really taking the fun out of it <g>. Lately it seems everything I touch does not want to work. Grrr...