Connecting the CE 5.0 emulator to VS2005 HOW TO?

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1 Connecting the CE 5.0 emulator to VS2005 HOW TO? As you probably noticed, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 does not come de-facto with a Windows CE 5.0 emulator! This said, if you wish to deploy and execute Visual Studio 2005.NET solutions against a CE.NET 5.0 emulator 1. Download the Microsoft Windows CE 5.0 Device Emulator here and install it on your development PC. Then follow the below instructions: 1. Start the CE 5.0 emulator using a shortcut command similar to this one "C:\Program Files\Windows CE 5.0 Emulator\Emulator_500.exe" nk.cem /video 240x320x16 /Ethernet virtualswitch /sharedfolder "C:\tmp\CE5SharedFolder" Where the shared folder appears on the emulator as \My Device\Storage Card. Browse this page for additional information about the Emulator Command-Line Launch Options 2. Copy the files located on the PC at \Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\CoreCon\1.0\Target\wce400\x86 to the shared folder Page 1 of 9

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3 3. Now using the emulator copy these files from the \Storage Card folder to the \Windows folder 4. Double-click the ConmanClient2 file to execute it Page 3 of 9

4 5. Double-click the emulator network system tray icon to get the emulator IP address: 6. To check the emulator is responding, try pinging it from your PC E.g. Microsoft Windows XP [Version ] (C) Copyright Microsoft Corp. C:\>ping Pinging with 32 bytes of data: Reply from : bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=128 Reply from : bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from : bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from : bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Ping statistics for : Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 23ms, Average = 5ms C:\> 7. Shut down the emulator using the "Save State" option Page 4 of 9

5 8. Navigate to the PC \My Documents\My Virtual Machines folder The saved state is in the folder that is named with a curly brackets string similar to {641834F7-7BD7-4A7B-B2CE-D11A2C48E93E} 9. Restart the CE 5.0 emulator from its saved state by adding the virtual machine ID switch to the command. For example: "C:\Program Files\Windows CE 5.0 Emulator\Emulator_500.exe" nk.cem /video 240x320x16 /Ethernet virtualswitch /sharedfolder "C:\tmp\CE5SharedFolder" /vmid {641834F7-7BD7-4A7B-B2CE-D11A2C48E93E} 10. If not already loaded, open your Visual Studio 2005 CE.NET 5.0 smart device project 11. Select the Visual Studio 2005 Options option from the Tools menu Expand the Device Tools section and select the Devices option Page 5 of 9

6 12. Select the Windows CE 5.0 Device and click Properties 13. Click Configure select UUse specific IP address and key-in the emulator IP address 14. Click OK three times to save the settings and close the dialog boxes. 15. In the emulator, click Start Run, key-in \Windows\cMaccept and hit OK. Page 6 of 9

7 From that on, you have about three minutes to connect to the emulator from Visual Studio Select the Visual Studio 2005 Connect to Device option from the Tools menu. Set Platform to Windows CE 5.0 and Devices to Windows CE 5.0 Device: Then click Connect. Visual Studio 2005 should shortly notify you as follows: Page 7 of 9

8 If not, - turn the emulator off (do not use the Save state option) - delete the newly created emulator saved stated folder E.g. \My Documents\My Virtual Machines\{641834F7-7BD7-4A7B-B2CE-D11A2C48E93E} - repeat this exercise from step You can now deploy and execute your CE 5.0 smart device application against the CE 5.0 emulator. For example: - If not already done, set the Target Device to Windows CE 5.0 Device - Optionally, press CTRL+W, O to bring up Visual Studio 2005 Output - Press CTRL+F5 to deploy and run the application against the emulator Page 8 of 9

9 Now if you take a look at the output window you will notice that Visual Studio 2005 deployed the two cab files NETCFV2.wce5.x86.cab and System_SR_enu.cab along with your application Build started: Project: DeviceApplication1, Configuration: Debug Any CPU DeviceApplication1 -> C:\tmp\DeviceApplication1\DeviceApplication1\bin\Debug\DeviceApplication1.exe Deploy started: Project: DeviceApplication1, Configuration: Debug Any CPU Deploying 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\CompactFramework\v2.0\windowsce\wce500\x86\NETCFV2.wce5.x86.ca b' Deploying 'C:\tmp\DeviceApplication1\DeviceApplication1\bin\Debug\DeviceApplication1.exe' Deploying 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\CompactFramework\v2.0\windowsce\diagnostics\System_SR_enu.cab' ========== Build: 1 succeeded or up-to-date, 0 failed, 0 skipped ========== ========== Deploy: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ========== 18. When done, close your application then shut down the emulator using the Save state option. Notes: You will need to re-run cmaccept each time you restart the emulator or VS2005, but the cab files should not need to deploy again, and the emulator ip address should remain the same. --- End --- Page 9 of 9