Moving from Pocket PC to CE.NET 4.1

[DJB]

Hi,

our company has a small application that runs on pocket pc (Symbol and
Intermec).

1) A new customer has already Casio DT-X30 scanners and wants to
use our software on his existing hardware.
I created a new "smart device" project for Windows CE and added all files to
this new project.

Is there a better way to change the platform?


2) The casio comes with an SDK and emulator that has all the buttons and the
correct display dimensions.
I want to use this emulator for debugging and documentation purposes (screen
shots for
the manual).
The device and the emulator show up in eVC 4, but I can't find a way to make
them available as
device to deploy to in VS2003, they simply don't show up in the dropdown
list.

3) Another problem I have is: Although I can connect and browse the file
system,
I can't connect to the device's registry:
The error message is: Unable to connect. The Microsoft ActiveSync reported
the follwing error:
Unable to laod device side components
When I try to connect to the emulator's registry the error message is:

Cannot find appropriate device side files associated with this tool.

I am absolutely clueless what's going on.... ?-{

Any help and/or hint will be highly appreciated.


Dieter

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

3) Contact the device OEM. They should have the basic pieces for
communications installed on the device from the factory. Can you connect
with ActiveSync at all to the device? Can you browse its filesystem from
the ActiveSync connection window (Browse Mobile Device or something like
that)? Don't forget that, for the remote tools to work from eVC (which I
assume you are using to browse the filesystem or registry), you have to
install and use the SDK ***for this device***. You can't substitute the
Pocket PC SDK...

Paul T.

 

[DJB]

Hi Paul,

ActiveSync (to include file system browsing) was Ok from the beginning,
just the remote Registry Editor could not connect.
I contacted the local OEM representative, and they informed me the problem
was:

I had eVT 4 SP2 installed => ceRegedt.exe couldn't connect
I installed SP3 => ceRegedt.exe couldn't connect
I deinstalled SP3 and installed SP1 => ceRegedt.exe couldn't connect
I copied C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows CE
Tools\Platman\bin\wce410
from my colleague's PC which had SP1 installed => voila, I was able to
browse the registry

There must be something weird going with CE.NET 4.1 and service pack > 1
and/or it's installer
(or is there something with the device?) ....

Thanks anyway

Dieter

P.S.: Ref 2) They also told me, that you can't use the emulator with
VS2003, so we will
use a device for debugging

Ref 1) Any ideas?

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

What version of CE.NET is the device running? 4.1? In SP3, you can select
which 'version' of the tools you run. I have mine set to always run the 4.2
version and that seems to work just fine. Maybe the 4.1 device-side pieces
aren't so good or something and require the 4.1 desktop-side tools...

Paul T.