Debugging against Windows Mobile 5 from Visual Studio 2005

[Craig Setera]

Hello,

I currently have a T-Mobile SDA and T-Mobile Dash (upgraded to WM 6.0)
at my disposal for development and testing. In general, I keep the SDA
connected via USB to my development computer most of the time. I've
been using a combination of VS 2005 and VS Orcas for my development. We
are targeting NETCF 1.0 for the better device coverage, which implies VS
2005, but some of the tools in VS Orcas are just too good to miss.
Jumping back and forth is a pain, but I'm making due.

One thing that would be helpful is debugging against the SDA from VS
2005 when doing primary implementation in NETCF 1.0. On-device
debugging works great in Orcas, but no matter what I select I end up
with the emulator launching in VS 2005. Can anyone offer any
suggestions about what I might be doing wrong that is causing the
emulator to launch instead of using my connected device?

Thanks,
Craig

 

[Craig Setera]

BTW - If I chose "Connect to device" and select the device, I get the
"Connecting..." dialog box. It says "Connection succeeded.", but never
closes. The dialog box is modal, so I can't use VS 2005. If I close
the dialog box, it appears to close the connection?

I'm obviously missing something here.

 

[Robert Janik]

I have never used "Connect to Device" which is in main menu under Tools.
Just press F5 to start debugging. VS2005 will ask where you want to deploy
the solution and it shows a list of devices. Emulator is default device, but
I changed that to deploy always directly to the device (it is also much
faster than the emulator in VS2005). During the deployment you may need to
click "Allow" when binaries are installed on the device, then it starts the
application automatically and under the debugger.

Robert