Trying to wrap my head around WinCE development process

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I'm a very experienced Windows developer, and have just started
getting into WinCE. (I have an VIA Artigo system). I viewed all the
videos from the Spark classroom:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/products/spark/classroom.mspx

And have successfully downloaded and installed an OS image to the
device.... it boots up fine.
Now I'm ready to develop a sample application... I follwed the steps
and created a simple "hello world" application but what next? My
understanding was that I could send it to the device, and debug it in
real-time (The app would be running on the target, but the debugging
of the source can happen in realtime on the development station).
Is this correct? If so I have yet to find a tutorial online that
covers this. Tutorials on creating OS images yes... creating
tutorials on writing WinCE apps yes... but nothing on how to deploy
them or debug them.

I'm also having issues connecting to the target device. If I goto
"Target->Attach Device" the dialog comes up waiting to make a
connection but the only way I get a connection is to reboot the target
device and have it run eboot instead of booting to CE. Then the
dialog shows that it's sending a run-time image, after which the
target device reboots on its own into CE. But after that, I can try
any of the remote tools and nothing works. :-(

Very confused and frustrated at this point.... any help is very
appreciated.
.

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