Re: VS 2005, ActiveSync & wi-fi

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Yes, Microsoft should bow to you. Their enterprise customers don't know
what it is that they need and security of devices really isn't an important
feature. Personally I'd like anyone with a debugger on their laptop to be
able to attach via corecon to any device running on my wireless network and
push down what they'd like. That would be entertaining.

-Chris


"M" <a@xxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23MQTfzQ%23FHA.252@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Yes, I'll suggest an alternative - start evaluating other manufacturers
> and devices. If you've been involved with PPC dev for long, you'll
> recognize that every single move made since WM2003 has been a disaster.
> It's really kind of ironic - Gates delivers speeches saying how important
> the mobile market is to the future of the business, but the actual
> mangement in the trenches makes one bone-headed move after another. Here's
> the text of an earlier posting I made on this subject:
>
> **********************************************************
>
> I work from my home office, and I have a wireless access point set up on
> the
> house LAN. When doing PPC development, I use my laptop and PDA, both
> wireless-enabled. It's extremely convenient - I can debug against the
> device
> without even having a wire between them.
>
> So the new ActiveSync just came out. In one of those imbecilic moves no
> doubt dictated by marketing, the ability to sync through a wireless
> ethernet
> connection has been removed. The explanation - 'Some of our enterprise
> customers expressed security concerns...'.
>
> As I recall, ActiveSync 3.8 had a checkbox in it's Options settings that
> had
> to be checked to enable LAN syncing. This checkbox was unchecked by
> default - the user had to specifically enable this capability. Apparently
> that wasn't enough.
>
> So in essence, what MS is saying is that some of their enterprise
> customers
> employ people too #$%$#%ing stupid to take care of their systems, and so
> the
> rest of us have to suffer.
>
> Brilliant, guys. Almost as inspired as that #$%ed -up implementation
> called
> WM2K3SE.
>
> ***********************************************************
>
>
>
> "IMB" <noone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:43933d7b$0$18556$ed2619ec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>I have been using VS.NET 2003 to develop apps for Pocket PC 2003 and as I
>>use wi-fi on a day-to-day basis, I deploy the apps to the Pocket PC via
>>wi-fi during the development process.
>>
>> I have now installed VS 2005 (Pro), and cannot deploy to the Pocket PC
>> because the deployment fails with the message, "The current version of
>> ActiveSync is not supported...". I'm using ActiveSync 3.8.
>>
>> The problem is that, as understand it, the latest version of ActiveSync
>> does not support wi-fi, so if I upgrade, I lose the wi-fi facility. The
>> notes on the ActiveSync 4.1 download page advise...
>>
>> "Remote PC Sync (via Wifi or LAN) has been removed due to Enterprise
>> customer feedback around security issues. If you are using this feature
>> on a Windows Mobile 2003-based device, please continue using ActiveSync
>> 3.x or earlier."
>>
>> This presents a catch-22 situation inasmuch as if I want to develop using
>> VS 2005, I have to lose ActiveSync's wi-fi capability.
>>
>> Can anyone advise of a workaround or alternative solution, or do I just
>> have to lose wi-fi?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>>
>
>


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