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> Arne,
>
> >From the description of your environment, this is a "simple" setup
> right? Everything is local to the development PC, the solution opened
> in VS has both the device project and the asp.net webservice project
> right? Assuming this all true, then all you need to do allow VS to
> startup more than one project for debugging.
>
> In VS.NET, go to the Solution Explorer and right-click on the solution
> object. Select menu option "Set Startup Projects...". In the
> resulting dialog choose the radio button "Multiple startup projects".
> Then locate both the webservice project and the device project and set
> their action to "Start". You should be good to go.
>
> One other thing that you may want to do, but is not required, is to
> change the webservice project so that you don't start InternetExplorer
> when that project starts up. To do this, right-click on the
> webservice project, and choose "Start options". Then choose the radio
> button "Don't open a page...".
>
> Now, when you do a "Debug/Start" from VS.NET, it will start both
> projects in the debugger and you should be able to debug easily from
> one to the other. I do this all of the time, in fact I'm doing it
> right now for the app I'm currently working on. I have a mobile PPC
> app and a webservice debugging back and forth right now.
>
> HTH,
>
> --steve
>
> Arne wrote:
> > Greetings all,
> >
> > I have a VS.Net 2005 PocketPC project which consumes a VS.Net 2005 Web
> > service. I run the PocketPC app ("Start debugging") from Visual Studio,
> > deploying to the PocketPC, and I can happily set breakpoints and step
> > through the code. When the Web Service method is called from the
PocketPC
> > app I would like to be able to step into the Web service code and debug
it
> > too. Unfortunately this doesn't happen. The Web service code executes,
but
> > not interactively in debug mode.
> >
> > The PocketPC is connected via an ActiveSync cable to the computer which
has
> > the two open (and running) projects. ie The Web service currently
resides on
> > the development computer. The PocketPC app uses the computer's IP
address
> > (not localhost) in the connection string to identify the location of the
Web
> > service. I do not wish to run the PocketPC app from an emulator.
> >
> > The Web Service app, which runs in debug mode, has debug set to true in
its
> > web.config file and has ASP.Net debugging checked.
> >
> > I'm wondering if, because I'm connecting via TCP, that I lose the
ability to
> > debug interactively in the way that I would like, similar to the way
that an
> > ASP.Net web page can't be debugged (using the "Invoke" button) from
another
> > computer on the same network. This Web service app *can* be debugged
from a
> > browser using "Invoke" on the host computer, as you would expect.
> >
> > Can someone please let me know if this should work, and if not, is there
a
> > reasonable alternative?
> >
> >
> > TIA,
> > Arne
> > keywords: webservice smart device handheld visual studio .net 2005
compact
> > framework
>