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Emulator Pocket PC with network access without Virtual PC?

In the development of software for the Pocket PC platform, I gladly used the Pocket PC emulator, which Microsoft provides using Visual Studio (and as a free download). It provides a much faster development / deployment / testing cycle. (Of course, I'm still final testing on real hardware). I also found that sharing the emulator with other people in the office (such as the documentation team) allows them to take accurate screenshots without much effort. So, I am convinced that this is a great tool for my situation.

There is concern: To use the network capabilities of the emulator, you must install Microsoft Virtual PC on the computer on which the emulator will be running. It seems like a terrible heavyweight requirement for such a small instrument. Has anyone found an easier way to enable network features in a Pocket PC emulator?

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You can extract the driver needed for the emulator from the Virtual PC 2007 installation file. For Windows 7 users who have Windows Virtual PC installed, this is actually the only known way to make the emulator work in a network environment (since installing Virtual PC 2007 is not an option after Windows Virtual PC installation).

Here is a blog post explaining the procedure. In a nutshell, you extract the VMNetSrv driver from the Virtual PC 2007 SP1 installation file, and then manually install this driver on the network adapter that you use to connect to the Internet:

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The simple answer is no, but ...

Have you considered using free

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We went even further. We are creating a build solution against compact frameworks and one build solution against the win32.net framework. Since all code is only C #, there should be no problem compiling and running the application as a Win32 application on a PC.

There is another big advantage - it is much faster to compile for Win32 than for WinCE.

Hope this helps ...

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