CE emulator configuration within Developer Studio

  • Thread starter Thread starter Lars Fiedler
  • Start date Start date
L

Lars Fiedler

My intention is writing smart device applications for a Windows CE platform
using C#. So I created a CE image using Platform
builder and could run the simulator from within the platform builder. But
from the Visual Studio the emulator hangs during boot up.
Running the application on my physical device with the platform I generated
everything is o.k.

The question for me is how can I configure the Visual Studio which emulator
settings and which images are used for deployment
of my application? What are the settings for the default Windows CE .NET
Emulator and can I change that ? Do Platform Builder
and Visual Studio using the same images?

Thanks.
Lars
 
Hi Lars,

This may be associated with the emulator skin file. If so the steps below
should help.

To manually fix the error:

1. Open the registry and find registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows CE Tools\Managed Platforms.

2. The Managed Platforms registry key should contain one or more
subkeys identified with GUIDs. Each subkey represents a distinct emulator
installed by an SDK and should have values for PlatformName, Skins, etc.
Locate the emulators that produce the skin error. The Skins value in the
registry for those emulators should be a folder name. Set the registry
value of Skins to the full path of the skin’s XML file.

3. Delete the file sdkRollerDevice-<GUID> for every emulator that
produces an error, where <GUID> corresponds to the GUID for that emulator.

Note The sdkRollerDevice-<GUID> file is located by default in Documents
and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\devices\addons.

4. Start Visual Studio .NET 2003 and use the emulators.

Hope this helps,

Scott

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

--------------------
| From: "Lars Fiedler" <[email protected]>
| Subject: CE emulator configuration within Developer Studio
| Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:05:14 +0200
| Lines: 17
| Organization: SHB Jena
| X-Priority: 3
| X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
| X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106
| X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106
| Message-ID: <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups: microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework
| NNTP-Posting-Host: nat0-1.hbs-jena.com 217.17.193.51
| Path: cpmsftngxa06.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP08.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl
| Xref: cpmsftngxa06.phx.gbl
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework:28790
| X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework
|
| My intention is writing smart device applications for a Windows CE
platform
| using C#. So I created a CE image using Platform
| builder and could run the simulator from within the platform builder. But
| from the Visual Studio the emulator hangs during boot up.
| Running the application on my physical device with the platform I
generated
| everything is o.k.
|
| The question for me is how can I configure the Visual Studio which
emulator
| settings and which images are used for deployment
| of my application? What are the settings for the default Windows CE .NET
| Emulator and can I change that ? Do Platform Builder
| and Visual Studio using the same images?
|
| Thanks.
| Lars
|
|
|
 
Back
Top