FAQ: The missing CSC.exe error

   A number of people have complained about this error message when building a Smartphone V1.0 Project

 

c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\csc.exe not found

 

The reason is that Smartphone V1.0 has Version 1.0 of  .NETCF which required 1.1 version of the desktop runtime. While on most machine 1.1 NET Fx is present on a number of machines where only VS 2005 was installed, 1.1 NET is not there.

While we will not be able to include Desktop 1.1 Framework, we have made the error more intutive to tell the user that 1.1 is missing and they need to download this from Windows Update site or from https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=262D25E3-F589-4842-8157-034D1E7CF3A3&displaylang=en

Thanks

Amit Chopra