diff --git a/Source/cmGlobalVisualStudio8Generator.cxx b/Source/cmGlobalVisualStudio8Generator.cxx
index 9fd3d5af6..6bfef68f8 100644
--- a/Source/cmGlobalVisualStudio8Generator.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmGlobalVisualStudio8Generator.cxx
@@ -398,9 +398,7 @@ cmGlobalVisualStudio8Generator
                platformMapping : this->GetPlatformName())
            << "\n";
       }
-    bool needsDeploy = (type == cmTarget::EXECUTABLE ||
-                        type == cmTarget::SHARED_LIBRARY);
-    if(this->TargetsWindowsCE() && needsDeploy)
+    if(this->NeedsDeploy(type))
       {
       fout << "\t\t{" << guid << "}." << *i
            << "|" << this->GetPlatformName() << ".Deploy.0 = " << *i << "|"
@@ -411,6 +409,15 @@ cmGlobalVisualStudio8Generator
     }
 }
 
+//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+bool
+cmGlobalVisualStudio8Generator::NeedsDeploy(cmTarget::TargetType type) const
+{
+  bool needsDeploy = (type == cmTarget::EXECUTABLE ||
+                      type == cmTarget::SHARED_LIBRARY);
+  return this->TargetsWindowsCE() && needsDeploy;
+}
+
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 bool cmGlobalVisualStudio8Generator::ComputeTargetDepends()
 {
diff --git a/Source/cmGlobalVisualStudio8Generator.h b/Source/cmGlobalVisualStudio8Generator.h
index d7e1f3a31..cb6d3d9f1 100644
--- a/Source/cmGlobalVisualStudio8Generator.h
+++ b/Source/cmGlobalVisualStudio8Generator.h
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ protected:
 
   bool AddCheckTarget();
 
+  /** Return true if the configuration needs to be deployed */
+  virtual bool NeedsDeploy(cmTarget::TargetType type) const;
+
   static cmIDEFlagTable const* GetExtraFlagTableVS8();
   virtual void WriteSLNHeader(std::ostream& fout);
   virtual void WriteSolutionConfigurations(std::ostream& fout);