Emulator (PocketPC 2003 SE) Networking in VS 2005

[Rajesh Chawla]

Hi folks,

I'm using VS 2005 Beta2 and am trying to
use the PocketPC 2003 SE emulator.

The emulator comes up fine, but whenever
I try to connect to the Internet from the emulator,
I see the following error dialog:

Cannot Connect
Unable to connect: You have no modem entries
created, and no network card present.

How can I configure the emulator so that when I
launch it from VS 2005, it has the proper network
cards in it?

Regards,
Rajesh

 

[Darren Shaffer]

On the Tools menu in VS2005B2, go to Options, Device Options, and select the
emulator
you are trying to use. In the Configure dialog, you can select the network
adapter that
your emulator should be bound to. If you're not on a network, use the
Loopback Adapter.
if you are, choose the NE2000 compatible ethernet adapter. Once the
emulator starts up,
you can check that the emulator is bound to the appropriate adapter on the
menu of the
emulator window.
--
Darren Shaffer
..NET Compact Framework MVP
Principal Architect
Connected Innovation
www.connectedinnovation.com

 

[Rajesh Chawla]

Darren,

Thanks for the suggestion!

I tried to set the following combinations with no success:

In the Emulator Property window that I accessed from
Options, Device Tools, Devices, Properties, I set on the
Network Tab:

o NE2000 PCMIA network adapter: Connected Network Card
o NE2000 PCMIA network adapter: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Connection
- Virutal Machine Network Service Driver.

The flow in which I set things was:
1) Shut down the emulator.
2) Change NE2000 option
3) Restart emulator via "Connect to Device" button on toolbar

In both settings, the emulator (Smartphone 2003 SE Emulator) came
up but was not bound to an adapter.

Any other suggestions?

Regards,
Rajesh

 

[Darren Shaffer]

you need to:

1) change NE2000 option
2) clear saved state of emulator
3) restart emulator

--
Darren Shaffer
..NET Compact Framework MVP
Principal Architect
Connected Innovation
www.connectedinnovation.com

 

[Thore Berntsen]

I had the same problem on my laptop when it wasn't connected to a network.
First of all I had forgot to install the loopback adapter (I always develop
on a device and didn't need it before VS 2005). After I installed it still
didn't work.

After a while I figured out why. My computer runs XP with SP2. And I have
the Windows Firewall turned on. When I switched off the firewall for the
loopback adapter everything worked fine.

(This is how that is done in case you don't know how to to this : Go into
the Control Panel, open Windows Firewall, click on the Advandced tab. In
the Network Connecion Settings box you can select wich connections that has
the firewall enabled, clear the checkbox for the loopback adapter. That did
it for me, I may have rebooted the computer, but don't know if I had to.)

Does anyone know when ActiveSync 4.0 will be available?

Thore Berntsen.