Debugging wirelessly

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Right now I am using Visual Studio .NET 2003 on the desktop to debug code
that is running on my PDA which is in the cradle.

My application is a wireless one, so can I run the debugger on the PDA while
it is NOT in the cradle (i.e., wireless debugging)?

The wireless PDA has access to the network that the desktop in a member
of.

Regards,

G
 
Hi,

Yes, I often use a wireless connection for debugging. You have to establish
an ActiveSync connection (first), then you may use ActiveSync over the
wireless connection.

--
Richard Grier (Microsoft Visual Basic MVP)

See www.hardandsoftware.net for contact information.

Author of Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications, 3rd
Edition ISBN 1-890422-27-4 (391 pages) published February 2002.
 
Hi Dick,

Thanks for your response.

I don't quite understand how you make all of this happen. I can debug in
ActiveSync with no problem. As soon as I remove the device from the cradle,
I get a disconnection message and the program terminates.

Is the step by step information on how to do this TCP/IP debuggingin the
..NET 2003, PPC 2003 environment available in your book?

Otherwise can you provide steps or is there a tutorial available?

Thanks,

Me
 
Yannick,

Thanks for the webpage. I could follow the pictures even though I do not
speak French. However, the Pocket PC 2002 setup is different than PPC 2003.
Have you come across such a faq or tutorial for PPC 2003?

Regards,

Gigi
 
Do you have NetBIOS enabled over TCP/IP on the PC you are trying to sync
with?
Get vxUtil from www.cam.com and see if you can ping the PC by name from your
PocketPC
The pocket PC should be set up this way;
http://members.cox.net/ajarvi/WM2003/Connection_Manager/ConnectionManager.html

--
David Hettel
Microsoft MVP Mobile Devices

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You assume all risks for your use.

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Bluetooth guides: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=449
 
first, what you have to do is to connect your pocket pc on your LAN
(wirelessly speaking). Once you can ping your pocket pc, you are on the same
ethernet network than your pc.

after having connected it to your pc via the cradle you can connect it
wirelessly. Be carefull you must have your network adapter on the pocket pc
set to connect to the "desktop" (I don't really know how it is in english
because I have a french OS). On the options of activesync on your pc you
must have authorize ethernet connection. In the activesync option on the
pocket pc, you have to select the station you want to connect to.
You can look at the picture on the link I gave you on my last post (you can
also translate it using google).

Once you have correctly configure each side you just have to press the synch
button on you pocket pc.
 
Hi,

I don't have 2003 (only 2002). However, you should take a look at this
link. It is the same advice that you have received in other replies, but
take a look anyway:
http://www.pocketpcpassion.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23501&highlight=activesync

Dick

--
Richard Grier (Microsoft Visual Basic MVP)

See www.hardandsoftware.net for contact information.

Author of Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications, 3rd
Edition ISBN 1-890422-27-4 (391 pages) published February 2002.
 
Hi,

Thanks for the link. Pocket PC 2003 appears to have some major changes.
The PPC that I have has the wireless card built in and I can't find a place
that assigns the network a card an IP address (I can enter an IP address for
my proxy server). Also, using when I try to sync wirelessly, I get an error
message about setting up a VPN, which, by the way, seems to only work if I
give it a number to call a modem.

Gigi
 
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