Programming using Visual Studio 2005

I have not seen anything at all on this so I thought I would let anyone
interested know this.  I have flashed an image of CE 5.0 to my board that
included activesync and .NET compact framework 2.0 using a Windows XP
machine and Platform builder.  

I was then able to use Windows Mobile device center on my Vista machine
(which is the one I do most of my programming on) and use Visual Studio
2005 to create programs in any language I desired.  I can also build the
programs and load them directly to the board using only the usb connection.
 

I am by no means an expert at this and am finding my way as I go but being
as I have seen no information at all on the ability to do this I thought I
would let you all know that its possible.

Hi
I have visual studio 2008.
I can also program to the device using just a USB cable, but it doesn't
stay on the device. The moment I reboot it is gone.
Do you know how to deploy to the flash memory?

I saw a lot of people talking about programming an SD card.
I have an SD card reader somewhere, can I use the SD card for my program?

Regards
Christiaan