Creating VC++ smart device project in VS2005

Ok, this is would be my first technical article here. Here we go
Well many of you people have been using Visual studio 2003 in their developmental activities. Recently windows has released Visual Studio 2005 and many people (also in their offices) would have upgraded to it. Some would have problems in creating VC++ smart device projects in this new environment and others would have nothing. What I mean problems here is "even creation of VC++ smart device project in the Visual Studio 2005 will not be possible." . This specific problem will be faced only in systems whose Internet explorer version is 7.0. . Strange as many of you might think and what could be the connection, when I am able to create a VB or VC# based smart device application in the same system using VS 2005. Again why not this happens if I have IE version 6.0. and VS 2005? So, instead of me explaining, I would like to borrow the words of Fernando Zandoná , the PM in charge of Windows Mobile SDK (Software Development Kit). He has mentioned the following in his blog,


Unable to Create Native (C++) Projects
VC++ Project Wizards are pretty much HTML files + scripts - Visual Studio uses IE to render and present those "web pages" as a wizard. The problem is that, due to the new security model, IE7 does not trust some of those scripts; as a result you keep getting the "New Project" dialog and can't move forward on the wizard. The workaround here is to let IE know that the smart device VC++ wizard is a nice guy and ok to run.

Now, how to overcome this. All you have to do is a simple modification in registry. Hey this modification is also mentioned by the same guy and not me.

Ok, now lets get started. Click on "Start" and then "Run". Now, type in "regedit" on the run dialog box and click on OK. Navigate through and open the following registry entry,
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\PreApproved

In this entry create a new "key" (remember I mean a "registry key" and not a "value") with the following name,
{D245F352-3F45-4516-B1E6-04608DA126CC}

You need not add any value in this registry key. Hey while naming the key, don't forget the opening and closing curly braces.

After doing this, close the regedit and you must be able to create VC++ smart device projects in VS2005 environment without any problem.

So what say guys.