How to test with Windows CE .NET emulator

Brane Brodnik

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Dec 15, 2003, 3:59:53 PM12/15/03

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Hi!

I wrote some small applications in C# and tested them with PocketPC emulator
and with IPaq PocketPC as well.
Now I would like to deploy and debug these applications with Windows CE .NET
emulator too. But I don't see any way to switch to Windows CE .NET emulator
in Visual Studio .NET. It only offers me Pocket PC 2002 Emulator or Pocket
PC device as Deployment device. Configuration Manager also offers me only
Pocket PC as available platform.

Did I overlook something?

Thanks for any help.

Brane Brodnik

Mike Hall [MSFT]

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Dec 15, 2003, 6:43:20 PM12/15/03

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The following MSDN article should help you with this.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnembedded/html/embedded04012003.asp

- Mike

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Brane Brodnik

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Dec 16, 2003, 7:01:35 AM12/16/03

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Thanks, Mike, but suggested article helps to work with real devices, that I
don't have yet. I'm unsuccesfully trying to involve in test the Windows CE
.NET emulator, which is included in MS VS .NET 2003. VS doesn't offer me CE
.NET emulator as deployment device (only PocketPC 2002 emulator or Pocket PC
device are available options).

Does anybody have some hint in this way?

Brane

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Mike Hall [MSFT]

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Jan 27, 2004, 12:39:31 PM1/27/04

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Do you have Windows CE .NET Platform Builder ? - if so, you can build a
custom Windows CE .NET operating system, deploy this to the emulator and
then have Visual Studio .NET download to this platform.

- Mike

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Feb 1, 2004, 10:11:07 AM2/1/04

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I have a similar problem and with the Platform Builder I just got more confused:
I need to use Media Player and the Win CE default emulator for Visual Studio 2003 does not come with the media player. So, I got the Platform Builder, created a platform with the Emulator BSP, in which I included Media Player. From within the Platform builder, everything works fine. But:
1. The .bin file will not load on the Visual Studio Emulator (maybe because it's different version?)
2. I created an SDK, installed it (everything is on the same machine), then from within Visual Studio in the connect to device dialog I can see my platform. However, when I try to connect to this device I get a black screen on the emulator window and the message "Cannot establish a connection. Be sure the device is physically connected to the development computer".

Does anyone have any idea on how I can get an OS image created with Platform Builder 4.2 to load on the Visual Studio 2003 enulator, so that I can start developing my app? I don't want to meddle with ActiveSync and serial cables (it seems crazy to connect to an emulator that's running on the same machine through serial).

Thanks in advance and sorry for posting this in two threads.