Connecting to a WinCE device from Visual Studio

Question

I have a WinCE device. Can I connect to the device from visual studio to view the following

Folder structure. Applications running. Registry values. 

Are there other ways to view these items?

Where can I get more information about this?

Answer 1

Folder structure.

Remote file viewer

Applications are running.

Remote process viewer or remote spy

Registry values.

Remote Registry Editor

EDIT:

If your device does not have ActiveSync, you should read this MSDN article on how to connect to Windows CE without ActiveSync

Summary of the MSDN article:

Prepare the device:
Copy the following files to the \ Windows \ folder on the device. These files are located on the developer's computer by default in the \ Program Files \ Common Files \ Microsoft Shared \ CoreCon \ 1.0 \ Target \ wce400 \ folder.

  Clientshutdown.exe ConmanClient2.exe CMaccept.exe eDbgTL.dll TcpConnectionA.dll 

run conmanclient2.exe on the device

Determine the IP address of the device.

Prepare Visual Studio:
From the Visual Studio Tools menu, select Options, then Device Tools, and then Devices.

Select Windows CE Device and click Properties.

To the right of the Transport field, select Configure.

In the TCP / IP Transport Setup dialog box, select Use a specific IP address and enter the IP address of the device.

Close dialogs and soft-reset device if necessary

Establish protection and establish connection:
At the command prompt on the device, run cMaccept.exe.

Within three minutes, connect to the device. If you have established your first connection in three minutes, you can continue to deploy and debug indefinitely as long as you use the same instance of Visual Studio. You can exclude the cMaccept step by disabling security on the device. To do this, use the remote registry editor to set the value HLKM \ System \ CoreConOverrideSecurity = 1 DWORD.

Answer 2

If OEM has enabled Activesync support, you should be able to connect it via USB (assuming the device has USB) and look at the device in the Windows Mobile Device Center. You may also need to install OEM OEM drivers. If USB cannot be activated via Bluetooth or infrared.

You can see the folder structure through the Mobile Device Center. Visual Studio (until 2008) includes Remote Registry Editor and Remote Process Viewer , which should provide you with the rest.

Answer 3

copy all files that are the same at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\CoreCon\1.0\Target\wce400\[armv4i] This name is my device in the root directory of the device and it takes some time for the device to reset so you have to run CMAccept.exe and ConmanClient2.exe good luck and thanks for starting this discussion :)