RE: Deployment / Debugging Problem

From: Peter Kemp (PeterKemp_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:09:02 -0700

Hi Darren

Thanks for the reply

I had tried the things you suggested previously with no luck, but just this
morning I tried something different. It goes like this.

Normally I login to my machine using a domain account which is an admin for
the domain and my machine. This time I logged in with a local machine admin
account, then created a simple 'Hello World' app for the Pocket PC tried
deploying it and to my surprise it worked first time no problems. I then
logged out an back in with my normal domain account and everything works the
way it used to.

Hopefully this may be of help to you in future too.

Thanks again

Peter

"Darren Shaffer" wrote:

> Peter,
>
> This happens occasionally on all of my development PCs when I attempt to
> deploy to device from VS.NET 2003 using Activesynch 3.71. There is no
> permanent fix - it is an Activesynch problem. On different occasions, one of
> the following fixes the problem for me for a period of time:
>
> 1) import the proxy ports registry entry on your PC running ActiveSynch.
> the registry entry to import is located at:
>
> \Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\CompactFrameworkSDK\WinCE
> Utilities\WinCE Proxy Ports Reg
>
> 2) try deploying a second time
> 3) disconnect the device, wait 5 seconds, reconnect and wait for a
> partnership to be established. redeploy.
> 4) power off the device. connect it while powered off and the device wakes
> up, Activesynch establishes a partnership, and redeploy
> 5) soft reset the device, partnership, redeploy
> 6) restart VS.NET 2003
> 7) restart the PC running Activesynch
>
> Yes, this is just no fun. I've been experiencing this for 2+ years now and
> have never seen a permanent solution to it. At various times, all of the
> things above have fixed it (for a while).
>
> -Darren
>
>
> "Peter Kemp" wrote:
>
> > Hi All
> >
> > I am having a problem deploying and debugging a pocket pc application.
> > Problem is when I try to deploy to the device I get this error:
> > 'Cannot establish a connection. Be sure the device is physically connected
> > to the development computer.'
> > The result is that i can no longer debug applications. The device is
> > connected properly and ActiveSync (3.7.1) works fine. I have heard this
> > version can cause problems but it is the version I have always used.
> >
> > This only started occurring recently after working fine for months. I have
> > tried all suggested solutions in this discussion group with no success. The
> > only thing I haven't done and don't want to do, is rebuild my PC from scratch.
> >
> > I know there are others out there with this problem so any help would be
> > greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Regards
> > Peter