PROB: Connecting to Studio from CE

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Chris Tacke, eMVP

I have a customer with a connectivity problem and it has uncovered a couple
problems with the connection tools.

First, the problem i sthat he was able to debug over USB for a few weeks,
then all of a sudden it started failing. He's unable to connect at all to
the device from Studio. It just gives a "make sure the device is physically
connected" error even though it has a current, valid ActiveSync Connection
(the error text from Studio really could be better).

At any rate, the customer's device is C# 4.1 and is running a display that
is QSIF in size, so 1/2 QVGA. THis presents a huge problem in that if he
tries to use some other form of connection, like sdauthutil.exe or
conmanclient.exe on the device, they have buttons that he needs to click
that are off-screen. They have no title bar to allow him to drag it to a
position that's usable, they have no set tab order, so he can't use a
keyboard to tab to the controls, and the forms don't have scrolling.

Basically the lack of these features make both the sdauthutil.exe and
conmanclient.exe unusable for devices with screen heights less than 320.
 
I have a similar problem. I am using a device running Windows CE 4.1
headless (without display) so I can't start SDAuthUtilDevice.exe (the
file is from the Visual Studio .Net 2003 Add-on-Pack 1.1 for CE.NET).
I get the message: "Cannot execute \Windows\sdauthutildevice.exe".

I know the IP addresse of the the device and I can access it by
Ethernet with telnet and ftp so I have tried to start the
ConManClient.exe manually without success. I used the following
command line:
\Windows\ConManClient.exe /transport:\windows\cmtnpt_tcpconnect.dll
/property:ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP of my desktop machine running Visual
..NET.

When I start ConManClient.exe this way the process start and runs but
I still can't connect to the device.

Is there other parameters that need to be set with ConManClient.exe
(does it need a port number)?
or
Does anyone knows if it is possible to start the SDAuthUtilDevice.exe
with a command line parameters?

Aris Theophanidis
software developer
 
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