Needs to support ARM DSP opcodes out of the box (or, Welcome to the 21st Century)

The DeviceEmulator 2.0 Community Tech. Preview has gone live, at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=13F5DE85-30CD-4506-9C5B-A2068FA1EE9E&displaylang=en.

V2 has:

• Much improved performance
• DEComInterfaces.idl - the COM interface to the emulator, along with sample code showing how to use DMA to communicate between a Windows app and an app or driver running inside the emulator. This is the DeviceEmulator's equivalent of the "Building DMA Drivers for the Windows CE.NET Emulator" article at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dncenet/html/builddmadriver.asp.
• An eXDI driver for Windows CE Platform Builder 5.0, giving you a hardware debugger interface to the emulator.
• TabletPC ink input support
• Countless bug fixes

The V2 CTP installs side-by-side with the V1 CTP and Visual Studio 2005 emulators, and is backward-compatible with V1. If you wish to use the V2 CTP from Visual Studio, the readme.rtf file explains how to do that. The same process can be done to revert back to the original DeviceEmulator if you run into a blocking problem with the V2 CTP.

Enjoy!

Barry (and the DeviceEmulator team)

Can the emulator run standalone without VS2005

I installed it on windows XP and when I started "Device Emulator Manager" from the Start menu. I got this error: "Cannot start the emulator. Error: 0x80040154".

Can you help

Did you carried out the registration step mentioned here in the download link

To install the emulator, run the MSI that is provided with this download. After installation is done, you must regsiter it in order to do get the Visual Studio use this V 2.0 Emulator instead of the one that came with Visual Studio 2005. Run the register.bat file to do this. This step is provided for you to choose to replace the V1.0 emulator.

Hope this helps.

-Thanks,

Mohit

You misunderstood my question. My question was "Can the emulator run standalone without visual studio installed "

The installation of emulator did not complaint about any missing dependency, but it does not run after installation.

Hello,

I have installed DeviceEmulator 2.0. The problem is, that I am unable to register Emulator, to use it inside VS 2005.

When running register.bat the line "DeviceEmulatoreXdi.exe /register" throws an error saying "Failed to register."

I haven't found anything about this problem. How could I check if the emulator was registered (Visual Studio shows me only Mobile 5.0 emulators -- I guess a CE emulator should be showed there).

How about VS 2005 integration and expandind New Smart Device project options Should the emulator also add some new posibilites to the new project Dialog or is this in the SDK domain

Thank you for your answers.

OK, I did it.

Is it somehow possible to chech which emulator am I using I don't see any difference between 1.0 and 2.0 version, thatswhy i am not sure if am I using the no. 2. :-)

How to check which engine am I using.

Thanks for your answer.

Ok, just to be sure.

I checked version info (about box) in Device Emulator and the version written is the version you mentioned.

8.0.50727.42

On the other side Device Emulator Manager is showing me the version 8.0.60317.00.

Which one helps me determinate emulator engine i'm using

Should the no. 2 engine be faster (readme says so...) I haven't noticed, that the emulator is working faster and am not more so sure, that I am using version 2. :-)

I tried to rerun those commands. (In second line you probably meant DvcEmuManager.exe /register.)

But the result is the same. The commands are executed without any messages, but the Emulator About Box is showing me the old version.

I checked the registry for the keys registering and all of them had the Default atributte pointing to the Emulator 1.0.

(

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Device Emulator\1.0\DeviceEmulatorProxy.dll"

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Device Emulator\1.0\SERDMAAsPlugin.dll

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Device Emulator\1.0\DeviceEmulator.exe,-1033

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Device Emulator\1.0\dvcemumanager.exe"

)

I manually changed the path to 2.0 version ("C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Device Emulator 2.0 Preview\..."), but the result is still the same...

I would appreciate some ideas, because I run out of them. :-)

Thanks.