Re: Deployment and debugging of apps from VS2005 via ActiveSync &

Hmmm... looks like my optimism was misplaced.

I have tried very very hard to get the suggested instructions on:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms228708.aspx

to work but to no avail.

Endless hours trying to Google up a solution have failed as well.

Could I request some further clarification please?

Specifically, with respect to these two instructions (drawn from the web
page above):

"From the command prompt on the device, run conmanclient2.exe.

Determine the IP address of the device."

I have never had the need to run this program before, so I have no idea how
to tell whether it is doing its job or not.

What should I expect to see when it runs please?

I have run "conmanclient.exe" and it pops up a UI, but i get nothing
(visible)from "conmanclient2.exe".

Neither does it show up in the list of running programs (whereas
conmanclient shows up as "Connection Manager").

Also what, specifically, is meant by "from the command prompt" please? I
have been starting (or attempting to start!) both apps by simply touching
them with the stylus in the normal way, but use of the phrase "command
prompt" makes me worry that I might be missing a trick somewhere or other.

If and when I ever do manage to see conmanclient2 put up a UI I am guessing
that it will show me... well, actually, I don't know... what will it show me?

I am trying to do this on an iPAQ 4150 which has .NETCF v1.0 SP3 and v2.0
SP1 loaded on it. My understanding is that this is an acceptable
configuration.

[Apologies for all the dumb questions, but when something doesn't work it is
amazing how ruthlessly it exposes scope for interpreting the instructions in
various different ways. Everything will be so obvious once I can get it to
work.]

Best regards, Tony C.


"TonyC" wrote:

Thanks Paul.

I've searched for that information for weeks without success.

"Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" wrote:

You need to use the network connectivity scheme, which doesn't actually use
ActiveSync itself, to make your debugging connection:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms228708.aspx

I've never done this with Pocket PC devices, but it works fine with Windows
CE, non-PPC devices.

Paul T.

"TonyC" <TonyC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I need to be able to use VS 2005 to launch and debug Pocket PC applications
over Ethernet.

Unfortunately, this ability seems to have been removed in ActiveSync 4.2.

This is an essential ability for me, as our application can not be mounted
in the USB cradle (nor can we use the emulator) because the connector on
the
base of the PPC is in use for some special purpose real physical hardware
that is integral to the functioning of the app. This hardware is
absolutely
integral to the design of the overall system in terms of being the
fundamental 'reason d'etre' for the project and can not be removed - even
temporarily - or the app will not function.

This used to work fine with VS2003 & AS 3.8, but now that we have to use
VS2005 & AS 4.2 we have a serious and urgent problem.

Does anybody know of a way of deploying and debugging Pocket PC apps in
the
VS2005 universe without cradling the device please? frankly, we are
becoming
a little desperate.

Any and all help and suggestions would be gratefully appreciated.



.

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