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Installing BlackBerry Plug-in for Visual Studio 2005/2008

If your are new to mobile application development and having experience in .NET using Visual Studio, then this article will help you a lot for developing blackberry mobile application. What you only have to do is to download and install Blackberry Plug-ins for Visual Studio 2005/2008 and install it on your system. After installing this will give you a separate environment/template for blackberry mobile application development.

For installing BlackBerry plug-in you need to be very sure for you system configuration as follows:

System Requirements

• Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 or 2008 Standard or Professional
• 1 GHz processor
• 1 GB of RAM
• Windows Vista™ (32-bit), Windows® XP Service Pack 2 (32-bit), or Windows Server® 2003 Service Pack 1 (32-bit)

The BlackBerry® platform supports several different ways of developing applications. Each methodology has unique strengths, but all of them will help you leverage the BlackBerry solution’s easy connectivity and robust security.

• BlackBerry Browser Development
• Rapid Application Development (RAD)
• Java Application Development

I am going to discuss here for Rapid Application Development. Rapid application development provides you drag and drop tooling facility using Visual Studio plug-ins those are available on Blackberry website. RAD also lets you create customized user interfaces and access more advanced features. You can download tools Blackberry Visual Studio Plug-in.

Download Plug-in which is suitable for you. After downloading run downloaded file. Blackberry application development is ready for your visual studio.

Please find my other article for creating hello world application in blackberry.

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