Help with PPC Emulator

[Victor Espina]

I need some help and guidance about how to use PPC 2003 Emulator to test
an application in a real world environment.

I've made an expense reports application for a sales company, that
should work in this way:

a) Every salesman will have a PDA with my app loaded in it
b) These salesman will use this PDA to record their expenses on the
road. The application use XML files to save all expenses reports
recorded while the salesman is on the road
c) When salesmen comeback to company offices, they should be able to
"send" all recorded expeses reports to company's data server (SQL Server).

To do this, I need to:

a) Check if the PDA is connected to a network
b) Check if PDA can access company's sql server. This could be done by
pinging sqlserver IP (that can be saved in the PDA).

Although I don't know how to accomplish these task at this moment, I
know I can figure them out using online resources.

What is driving me crazy is how to use PPC 2003 Emulator to reproduce
the behavior of the real PDAs.

I mean, I need a way, different from DMA, to connect the PPC emulator to
my development machine so I can make some tests.

Anyone can give me hand on this? My PC has the following network adapters:

a) Normal Ethernet adapter
b) Wireless adapter
c) Loopback adapter


TIA

Victor Espina

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

You can't effectively use the emulator for this testing. Intermittent
connectivity isn't suitably emulated and the networking environment itself
doesn't match. It's an *emulator*, not the real device and testing just on
the emulator is *not* effective. Get a real device for network testing.

Paul T.