Pocket PC Emulator

Articles at Pocket PC Developer Network

• QA: How to create an installation that supports Pocket PC emulator?
  May 21, 2002. I would like that my program can be installed under Pocket PC emulator too. I use CabWiz for creating installations. How can I create installation for Pocket PC emulator?

MSDN Technical Articles

• Debug C++ Applications with the Pocket PC x86 Emulator
  Nov. 11, 2000. Using the Pocket PC x86 Emulator, you can debug applications more quickly than debugging over serial or USB connections.
• Debugging Applications for Pocket PC 2002 with the x86 Emulator
  December 11, 2001. Configure and use the Pocket PC 2002 emulator to debug your Pocket PC applications much more quickly than with a physical device.

MS Knowledge base

• PRB: Selecting "Save Emulator State" During Smart Devices Emulator Shutdown Can Cause Visual Studio .NET to Not Deploy Application to Emulator
  4/30/2003. If you select Save Emulator state when you shut down Microsoft Pocket PC 2002 Emulator before the debugger stops and then you try to deploy the same application again, you may receive the following error message and Visual Studio .NET does not deploy the application to Pocket PC 2002 Emulator: There were deployment errors. Continue?
• PRB: Emulator Traps KeyDown Event for Arrow Keys
  9/4/2002. In a project created with either the Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic (VBCE) or eMbedded Visual Basic (eVB), KeyDown event procedures are triggered in the emulator when using ARROW keys to navigate among buttons on a form. This behavior does not occur on remote devices.
• PRB: Object Store Is Limited to 1 MB on Pocket PC Emulator
  9/4/2002. When you run, debug, or test an application for Microsoft Pocket PC in Pocket PC emulation, the application limits the amount of data that can be stored in the object store. This limit on data storage affects the use of the CE Database API and ActiveX Data Objects for Windows CE (ADO CE) in Pocket PC emulation. This problem does not apply to the Pocket PC 2002 emulator.
• Q260567 - BUG: LNK2019 When Building For Pocket PC Emulation
  5/10/2001. When building an application for Pocket PC emulation that uses the Windows CE operating system functions, errors similar to the following may be encountered:
• Q266236 - HOWTO: Use Serial Comm with Windows CE Emulators
  5/10/2001. The new PocketPC emulation does not require the Wceemuld driver in order for an application to use the serial port in emulation. This article describes the additional steps to set up the HPC Pro 3.0 and Palm-size 1.2 emulators for serial communications under Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Microsoft Windows 2000.
• FIX: SQL Server CE Application Fails on Pocket PC 2002 Emulator on Pentium IV Processor
  4/22/2003. When you install the Microsoft Pocket PC 2002 Software Development Kit (SDK) on a Pentium IV or on a dual processor computer, and you use eMbedded Visual Basic that targets the Pocket PC 2002 emulator, you might experience the following problems: *in the article*.
• Q296904 - HOWTO: Install the PocketPC Emulator with JScript Support
  6/2/2001. This article explains how to install and configure the Pocket PC Emulator that ships as part of Microsoft Embedded Visual Toolkit 3.0.

Questions and Answers at www.cegadgets.com

• How can I enumerate Windows CE databases from the desktop?
  27-Mar-01.

Microsoft Smart Devices Developer Community

• Using the Emulator in Smart Device Projects
  May 2003. The information in this paper applies to emulator version 4.1 as shipped with Visual Studio .NET 2003. You can use the integrated development environment (IDE) to configure most emulator settings, or you can launch it from the command line with additional settings, such as custom skins. Using a share on the development computer is the preferred method of transferring files. Emulator connection problems can usually be identified and resolved quickly.

Misc

• ActiveSync/Emulator FAQ
  It seems that getting ActiveSync to work with the emulator has been a reoccurring question in the various Pocket PC news groups, and yet there hasn't been any definitive responses on how to get this working. This document attempts to clarify how to connect ActiveSync to the Pocket PC 2002 Emulator. Win CE .NET is out of the scope of this document.