I have been using Visual Studio 2005 for a short time and have been working on a simple mobile application. I am now to the point where I would like to see what it looks like on the actual device. I tried to start the device emulator by selecting Tools/Connect to Device and then picking a device. No matter which device I choose it fails after just a few seconds. It originally complained that I didn't have ActiveSync installed but I have now done that. The message I get is simply that the "connection failed". What am I doing wrong
Thanks for any help...
Device eumlator won't work
JackyLi
Sorry, you're at the limits of what I can figure out from the forum. I recommend you contact Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS). They may have better tricks and diagnostics than I do (I'm the developer/architect for the emulator).
Barry
setrio
In VS 2005's Tools/Options dialog, navigate down to Device Tools \ Devices, and select "Pocket PC 2003 Emulator". Then click the Properties button. You should see Transport set to "DMA Transport" and Bootstrapper set to "Device Emulation Startup Provider".
If those options aren't set or aren't the default, then something must've gone wrong with your VS 2005 install. Did you have a beta of VS 2005 on your machine at some point
Barry
Steve Abel
Thanks for the info. I am missing that option from my installation. I checked the version of Visual Studio 2005. It is version 8.0.50727.42. No mention of Beta version and I certainly don't think I have a Beta version. I have Visual Studio Professional.
I did not have a previous version of VS but did have some of the "express" versions installed, i.e. Visual Web Developer Express, Visual Basic Express, etc... but those have been removed. Would a re-install(repair) of VS resolve this problem
Thanks for any additional info....
osamaT
I did the repair but it doesn't appear that it changed anything. I still don't see any mention of the necessary protocols to run the emulators. Any other suggestions on how to get this fixed
Thanks,
pkv
Yes, doing a "repair" of VS is the next course of action. Please let me know if your situation improves afterwards.
Barry
farkbert
Forgot to mention:
After doing some reading on Device emulator I found that apparently I am supposed to have a transport called DMA for the mobile device emulators. I don't have that. All the devices have the TCP/IP transport but nothing else...is this why nothing works