Standalone PocketPC emulator, and installation!

[fhunter]

I need to send our application for evaluation to someone
that will have to run it on the PocketPC 2003 emulator.
I know how to run the emulator stand alone on my
developer machine. The people I have to send the
application to are not developers, they will not have any
developer tools installed on their machine.

If I have them download and install the PocketPC 2003
SDK, should the emulator work on their PC fine? or is it
going to be missing some files that might be install with
something like Visual Studio?

Additionally, does MS provide a completely stand alone
PocketPC 2003 emulator and installation? The PocketPC SDK
is rather large an contains mostly information that will
never be used by someone that is just evaluating an app.

This stand alone emulator is a pretty important tool for
developers (testers).

Thank you

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

Currently there is no emulator only distribution for Pocket PC 2003. You can
install the SDK without the developer tools. Because the emulator has a
feature to map the storage card to a folder on the PC you can use this as an
installation method for your software - however you cannot automate it
completely:-

1.Install the SDK
2.Install your application as a CAB file ready to be installed on the
emulator

3. Start the emulator. The SDK doesn't create a shortcut so you will need to
run this manually. By default the Emulator.exe is located "C:\Program
Files\Windows CE Tools\Common\Platman\bin" and the image in "C:\Program
Files\Windows CE Tools\wce420\POCKET PC 2003\Emulation"
4. Select the Emulator > Folder Sharing menu item. Browse to the folder
created in step 2.
5. Run File Explorer in the emulator, browse to "Storage Card" and tap the
cab file to install your application

You can then run the application as if installed on a normal device.

Peter

 

[Drew]

I would like to see an emulator only distribution.

Just my 2 cents.

Drew

 

[fhunter]

So would I .
Any one else?

Thanks for the info Peter !

 

[Drew]

I just installed the SDK (Microsoft Pocket PC 2003 SDK.msi), but the
Emulator.exe file is nowhere to be found. (?)

I have a "Windows CE Tools" folder, but there is no "Common" folder.

What did I miss?

Drew

 

[Christos Chorattides]

Hey Microsoft, are you listening?

Palm emulators are all over the web, for some years now!

Are you going to do something?

 

[Ed Kaim [MSFT]]

Microsoft has provided a Pocket PC emulator for years. The emulator provided
with Visual Studio .NET 2003 provides full debugging support in the
emulator, but also on the device--as it's running. It's a hardware-level
emulator that gives bit-for-bit emulation against x86 virtual hardware. The
same emulator can load Smartphone and custom Windows CE images.

 

[Drew]

I'm still looking for the emulator in the Pocket PC 2003 SDK.

The ROM image is there, but no emulator.exe file.

Any help here?

Drew

 

[khorad]

Microsoft has provided a Pocket PC emulator for years. The emulator provided
with Visual Studio .NET 2003

i think the point is not everyone (ie my customers) has vs .net 2003

and not everyone wants to install that monstrosity simply to get the
emulator

would it be that hard to pull it out into a standalone installer?

this way customers can easily evaluate a ppc app before committing to buying
the hardware

 

[Lars Black]

would it be that hard to pull it out into a standalone installer?
I'd like to see that as well..

this way customers can easily evaluate a ppc app before committing to

buying the hardware

It would also be much easier to set the sales people up with a
full-funtional demosystem..

Cheers,
Lars