Question about emulator/build/plugin

[jcornado]

Guys:

I am working on a plugin that does the following:

On successful builds (ONLY), it loads and runs an assembly.

Everything works fine until the target framework is the compact framework.


Is there a way to programmatically launch the emulator and have it run
the specific assembly?

Thanks a lot in advance!!!!

José

 

[Neil Cowburn [MVP]]

José,

You *can* programmatically launch the emulator. Heck, if VS can do it, so
can we

If you look in \CompactFrameworkSDK\ConnectionManager\Bin in your VS root
directory, you'll see a number of DLLs. One of which is ConMan.dll. Open in
ILDASM (or Reflector) and check out the APIs in the
Microsoft.VisualStudio.DeviceConnectivity namespace.

Also, look here for a few examples of how to use it:
http://www.opennetcf.org/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=613

To actually load and run the assembly, you'll need a simple app that will do
a late-bound call to a known method in the assembly.You can then use RAPI to
launch the assembler loader app.

--Neil

 

[jcornado]

Thanks a lot!!!

I will give it a try ASAP!!

José,

You *can* programmatically launch the emulator. Heck, if VS can do it, so
can we

If you look in \CompactFrameworkSDK\ConnectionManager\Bin in your VS root
directory, you'll see a number of DLLs. One of which is ConMan.dll. Open in
ILDASM (or Reflector) and check out the APIs in the
Microsoft.VisualStudio.DeviceConnectivity namespace.

Also, look here for a few examples of how to use it:
http://www.opennetcf.org/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=613

To actually load and run the assembly, you'll need a simple app that will do
a late-bound call to a known method in the assembly.You can then use RAPI to
launch the assembler loader app.

--Neil