Broken Network Using WinXP64 as the Emulator Hosts

[Chris Mullins [MVP]]

I'm trying to do some compact framework development on my WinXP-64
workstation. I'm using Visual Studio 2005 SP1.

The emulator comes up with no troubles, and my code properly deploys to the
emulator. The problem is that there's no network connection on the emulator.
When my CF code tries to open a socket and connection to something, I get an
error about a dead network.

If I launch IE and try to browse a web site, I get "no network" error. Using
the "Configure | Network" doesn't offer anything that works - if I select
the PCMCIA card option, I get a driver install error. If I select "Host
Only" networking, nothing happens.

Others here running x64 on their workstations have seen similar results and
been forced to give us.

Any suggestions for getting the emulator connected to a network while
running inside a 64-bit operating system?

 

[Steve Maillet \(eMVP\)]

AFAIK The HOST driver for the emulator system does not support 64 bit so
there is no way to make it work on those systems. This should be documented
in the release notes for emulator virtual NIC driver.