S60 3rd Edition SDK FP2 - Workarounds and Updates

What is carbide.VS

Carbide.vs is targeted at developers with Visual Studio skills who want to create C++ applications for Symbian OS platforms. Carbide.vs provides easy entry into Symbian OS C++ development with wizards and other automated functions that integrate with Visual Studio. User can get started with minimal manual configuration. Carbide.vs also contains functionality to automate several development tasks specific to Symbian OS.

Versions

1. Carbide.vs 2.x is a Visual Studio 2003 plugin which enables developers to use Visual Studio.NET 2003 as the IDE for Symbian development.

2. Carbide.vs 3.x is a Visual Studio 2005 plugin that enables efficient Symbian OS C++ application development using the Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2005 IDE and Symbian OS SDKs.

Workarounds for S60 3rd Edition FP2

The available Carbide.vs versions (2.0.2 and 3.0.1) do not detect the S60 3rd Edition FP2 SDK. The steps given below must be followed to ensure that Carbide.vs detects this SDK.
Carbide.vs 2.0.2:

Install Carbide.vs 2.0.2. Copy the S60_3rd_FP2_v2.xml file to the folder C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symbian\SDK Descriptors\Nokia for Carbide.vs to detect the SDK.

Carbide.vs 3.0.1:

Case I: No Previous SDKs are installed in the system

Step 1:
To skip the SDK detection while installation of Carbide.vs 3.0.1 make following registry entry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Nokia\Carbide.vs.30 -> Add String value "ForcePrereq" = "1".

Step 2:
To enable S60 3rd Edition, FP2 SDK detection in Carbide.vs 3.0.1, copy the S60_3rd_FP2_v3.xml file to the folder C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symbian\SDK Descriptors\Nokia.

Case II: Previous SDKs are already installed in the system

Step 1:
To enable S60 3rd Edition, FP2 SDK detection copy the S60_3rd_FP2_v3.xml file to the folder C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symbian\SDK Descriptors\Nokia.