Error Retrieving Information From User Datastore
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I opened a VS2005 Smart Device project that I was assured worked for others, only to face an error message box:---------------------------Microsoft Visual Studio---------------------------Error retrieving information from user datastore. Platform not found.---------------------------OK ---------------------------When I hit my only choice, which was the OK button, a warning message box appeared:---------------------------Microsoft Visual Studio---------------------------The project could not be opened because it refers to a device platform that does not exist in your datastore.---------------------------OK Cancel---------------------------Clicking OK or Cancel had the same effect: the project does not load (i.e. it is "unavailable" in solution explorer).However, in the top right corner of the warning message box there was the question mark icon. At https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms184403(v=vs.90).aspx first I didn't think of clicking on it, since it traditionally is used to get help on UI widgets on the dialog box it appears on. Instead, this one acted as a Help button (why not offer that next to the Cancel button is beyond me) and pointed to this msdn page:The project you are trying to load targets a device platform that your Visual Studio installation is not configured to support.To http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/device-platform-not-found.aspx correct this errorInstall the platform that supports the project you want to load.For example if you are trying to load a Windows Mobile 5.0 project and do not have the Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK installed, install the Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK.So clearly whoever saved that project had saved it while the "Target Device" was set to "Windows Mobile 5.0" (and probably created the project in the first place by choosing the WM 5.0 template). Since the WM 5.0 SDK doesn't ship with VS2005, any machine (like my tablet) that hasn't had the WM 5.0 SDK installed fails to open the project.As I didn't have time at this instance to download the SDK (or switch to my main machine that has the SDK installed), I opened the csproj file in notepad, located the following line:
help? Post your question and get tips & solutions from a community of 418,544 IT Pros & Developers. It's quick & easy. error https://bytes.com/topic/net/answers/493462-error-retrieving-information-user-datastore retrieving information from user datastore P: n/a Nathan Franklin hello list, i am http://windowsceblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/device-platform-that-does-not-exist-in.html writing a pocket pc project. just this morning i opened up my project and I got the following error.. error retrieving information from user datastore. and then the project could not be opened because it refers to a device platform that does not exist in your datastore. I haver error retrieving been unsuccessful at fixing this problem. Could someone shed some light please. thanks Nathan May 22 '06 #1 Post Reply Share this Question 1 Reply P: n/a Cor Ligthert [MVP] Nathan, Not that you are not welcome here, but do you know that there is a very active newsgroup. microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework Cor "Nathan Franklin"
Studio---------------------------Error retrieving information from user datastore. Platform not found.---------------------------The project could not be opened because it refers to a device platform that does not exist in your datastore.---------------------------Clicking OK or Cancel will result the same.Project will not be loaded.Its clear from the message that the developer had saved or created the Project with some target device, which is not available in my development workstation.Many of us has encountered with this problem. Now the USER is left with three choices.Install the platform SDK that supports the project you want to load and thenchange the target platform type to your target device.(Safest Option) 2. Create a new sample Project with available SDK and import all the source code and references from the other project.(Time Consuming but better than 1st option if you cant download SDK.) 3. Last option, if you don't have time to download and install SDK, or don't wanna import the source code and resolve all the warning and errors. open the .csproj file in notepad (Not .csproj.USER) Locate the line