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Standalone Device Emulator 1.0 with Windows Mobile OS Images now available!

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The_Exchange_Team
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May 19, 2006

From the download page:

The Microsoft Device Emulator 1.0 is a standalone version of the same ARM based Device Emulator that ships as part of Visual Studio 2005. The standalone emulator is intended for situations when you want to demonstrate or test your application on a computer that does not have Visual Studio 2005 installed. In addition, we are offering the Windows Mobile 5.0 MSFP operating system images that you can use with the Device Emulator.

Device Emulator 1.0 has a number of features that make it significantly better than its predecessor (the x86 emulator). You will find that it:

- Runs code compiled for ARM processors rather than for x86 processors. In most cases, you can run the same binaries on the emulator as you do on the device.

- Supports synchronizing with ActiveSync. You can use the Device Emulator with a full ActiveSync partnership. This feature allows you to debug applications that are syncing, or be able to use real synchronized data from within the Device Emulator.

- Provides support for more development environments. The emulator has been tested for developing and debugging applications with Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio .NET 2003, and with eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0 (eVC4) SP4, all using ActiveSync. No crossover serial cable is required.

- The Device Emulator supports GAPI. You can write and debug GAPI games on the Device Emulator and expect them to work.

Note: This release contains the Standalone Device Emulator as well as the following Windows Mobile OS Images:

Windows Mobile 5.0 with Messaging and Security Feature Pack (MSFP)

Get it here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C62D54A5-183A-4A1E-A7E2-CC500ED1F19A&displaylang=en

- Nino Bilic

Updated Jul 01, 2019
Version 2.0

16 Comments

  • Hello - Can someone pass along to the team responsible for this a BIG thank you as well as one request.  Can a future emulator version (maybe 1.01) allow Windows screen prints to be taken?  Makes documenting PDA configurations a whole lot easier.  :)

    TIA,
    Rob
  • i m trying to test Push email with my exchange 2003 sp2 server i configure active sync .. but its sayes can not connect to exchange server. but from my pc i can able to connect to exchnage... someone please make some light how to test Push email with this emulater
  • oh man...

    this emulator would have been a *huge* help to me a couple of weeks ago when i was delivering this ts2 seminar series: http://happyfunboy.blogspot.com/2006/04/crown-jewels.html

    ah well...

    better late than never :)

    thanks for the heads-up!
  • But how do you get connected to the internet?

    I have the Virtual Machine Network Driver installed, and my network uses static connections.  When ever I try to connect to the internet it says this connection cannot be used. :(
  • Thank goodness, this is a godsend.
  • Thank you.  I don't have Visual Studio, so this is a great help.