ActiveSync/Ethernet/CE6

[emb...@comcast.net]

I been trying to determine the proper way to use VS2005 deployment
options. I have not been able to find anything, if anyone knows of
any documentation please point me to it.

So what I have so far, is 1 machine with VS2005 and WinCE 6.0
installed uptodate with service packs/qfes through March 2008. With
this machine I installed the boards BSP and built a valid NK.bin. I
then created a SDK and generated the MSI. I then booted the nk.bin
from the boards compact flash card and everything is working as it
should.

Next I have a 2nd computer with VS2005 installed with latest updates.
(no platform builder). I installed the SDK created from 1st machine.
I then built a sample application using the SDK. I can now copy this
application to my board (either through a network share or copying it
onto the compact flash card). The application works as in it executes
as it should.

Now what I want to do is debug this application on the device from my
2nd machine. (In past I have always included applications as sources/
pbxml projects in platform builder and included them in the image and
downloaded the image over eboot allowing me to debug them).

In order to do this I have tried to connect to the device from VS2005,
which responds that active sync is not installed. Which version of
ActiveSync should I be installing? (I downloaded ActiveSync 4.5 as
its seemed to be the latest available though I see no option for
connecting through ethernet). Ethernet would be my preferred method
to do this but can not seem to find out how to connect properly.
Would another type of connection be preferred?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

You can debug applications without redesigning the operating system. Plug
the board into the PC where you're going to develop applications with VS2005
and the SDK. Select Windows CE device as the target device and everything
should just work, if your device supports ActiveSync. If you don't support
ActiveSync, or if the application development computer doesn't have
ActiveSync, you'll need to copy some files to the device, run them in the
right way, and reconfigure the Device Options in VS2005 to point to the
device's IP address (and connect to it over Ethernet). ActiveSync does not
use Ethernet, so you either have to use ActiveSync over USB or serial or use
manual startup of the communication pieces and Ethernet.

The key word you're looking for is CoreCon. The files for my device are
found at:

\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft
Shared\CoreCon\1.0\Target\wce400\armv4i

If you're running some other processor build, use the right one. On the
device, after copying everything from that folder, run conmanclient2.exe and
then cmaccept.exe. You then have a minute or two to make the connection to
the device from VS2005 before the connection is automatically shut down and
you have to start cmaccept again.

To connect, in VS2005, choose Tools | Options | Device Tools | Devices.
Choose Windows CE Device from the listbox and choose Properties... Set the
options for the TCP Connect Transport, which I think is the default. Select
Use specific IP address and enter the IP address of the Windows CE device.
Select OK over and over, then debug.

Paul T.

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[emb...@comcast.net]

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Thank you that worked. I am able to run the debugger in VS2005 now.
Seems like it should be easier, but it works. I am running into 1
problem with registry entries. My application has some registry
settings I need to include in the registry. When I deploy the
application it deploys the exe and an obj file (not sure why the obj
file is copied). Anyways I need to add some entries into the
registry. Is there are an easy way to do this? I mean I should be
able to transfer the .reg file over with the binary (like how the obj
gets sent over) but how to get those entries into the registry without
writing a program to parse the reg file and add each entry to
registry.

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

Not from the debugger. If you're talking about *installing* your
application, you can build a setup project for doing that which includes
registry entries. Or, if you don't find the registry entries you want when
your application starts, it could write default values for itself.

No, you can't use a REG file without writing some code to handle it.
There's no program on the device to parse and use such a file (our devices
have one that I wrote to do that, but it's not a Microsoft thing).

The debugger should not be transferring OBJ files, by the way...

Paul T.

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[skyapie]

Hi Paul,

I've got a device connected directly to a LAN via ethernet, and I can ping
it and telnet into it. I've followed the instructions in your post, but I
keep getting:

"Connection failed. 0x8973151A"

It's got an ARMV4i cpu and Windows Embedded CE 6.0 loaded on it. Could you
suggest some possibilities as to what the problem might be?

Thanks

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

No, that's what you have to do, in general. Perhaps you copied the device's
IP address incorrectly to the device options page in VS. Maybe you have not
run conmanclient2 or cmaccept. Maybe you've got the wrong version of
conmanclient2 or cmaccept on the device. Maybe you didn't copy *all* of the
ConMan files to the device or didn't place them in a location where the
loader can find them, the \windows folder, for example.

A DEBUG build of the OS will probably give you some hints as to what's going
wrong.

Paul T.

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[skyapie]

Thanks!

Turns out I was using the wrong version of the files... I'd downloaded
CEDbgSetup from OpenCFNet and installed it, which installed a different
version of the same files, probably for some other cpu.

Plus I'd put it in a directory in the root directory, instead of the Windows
directory.

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

Glad it's working; you'll probably never have another problem with it, now.

Paul T.

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[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

As noted in the CeDbgSetup docs, it installs the Studio SP1 versions of the
files which are incompatible with non-SP1 environments. Those have to
match.

-Chris

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