Device Connection with VS 2005 -- visual studio .net setup

juan NO[at]SPAM msdnCompany.com
4/14/2006 10:59:02 AM

I NEVER had any of the beta VS 2005 on this machine, I am now only installing
VS 2005 for the first time on this machine. Activesync works fine with my
Dell Axim, so I know that is installed ok, but I just cannot talk to the
emulators.

I searched for the directory you did mention. I have only one coreCon
directory and that is under PFiles\common files\ microsoft shared\. But that
has a lot of dlls in, so I am assuming that is not the directory you were
talking about. Also the only local settings directory I have is under doc
and Settings\All users and there does look like anything there beside my
temperary internet files.

Any additional help in getting VS 2005 to connect to the emulators would be
appreciated.

Thanks,
Juan

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wjzhang NO[at]SPAM online.microsoft.com (
4/17/2006 12:00:00 AM

Hi Juan,

This may be a hidden directory. You can directly input %USERPROFILE%\local
settings\application data\Microsoft\CoreCon\1.0 in Start->Run or the
address bar of IE\Windows Explorer.

%USERPROFILE% is a System variable points to your current logon user's
profile directory, e.g: C:\Documents and Settings\<account>\

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WenJun Zhang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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juan NO[at]SPAM msdnCompany.com
4/17/2006 8:39:01 AM

I found the directory and deleted it. I now can connect successfully and
even cradle successfully using the device emulator manager. But when I go to
deploy I get an error saying it is unable to start my program. "An error
occurred that usually indicated a corrupt installation (code 0x8007007e). If
the problem persists, repair your Visual Studio installation via "add or
Remove Programs in the Control Panel. So I did a repair and end up with the
same error when I go to deploy.

Any new Ideas?

Thanks,

wjzhang NO[at]SPAM online.microsoft.com (
4/19/2006 12:00:00 AM

Hi Juan,

The error is most likely caused some required files/dlls missing on the
Device. For example, if you are developing MFC applications which is using
dynamic linking, you may switch it to static linking to have a try.

Thanks.

Best regards,

WenJun Zhang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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juan NO[at]SPAM msdnCompany.com
4/19/2006 4:49:02 AM

No, I tried several simple .NET Compact Framework apps. In looking at it all
the files are on the device. I can actually run the application in the
emulator manually finding it with file explorer. So it is like VS installs
everything but cannot then start and debug, like the error I mentioned
suggests.

Again, if there is anything I could try to narrow this down, I would happy
to do that since I really would like to get this to work so I can work with
the compact framework under VS 2005.
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Thanks,
Juan

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wjzhang NO[at]SPAM online.microsoft.com (
4/21/2006 3:32:13 AM

Hi Juan,

If so, to further troubleshoot this issue, you may run filemon/regmon to
trace the I/O during the error occurs. Let's see if there is any obvious
file or registry missing or corruption.

Filemon:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html

Regmon:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html

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WenJun Zhang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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juan NO[at]SPAM msdnCompany.com
4/21/2006 1:35:02 PM

I don't know if there was something specific you wanted me to look at , but I
did see something that did not look correct. I started my emulator by
connecing to it. Then I started my program (UnitTest) and selected the
proper emulator that was already running. VS then was busy downloading files
and when it got to the end where it should jump into the debugger I got the
error I discussed earlier. The interesting part in looking in the file
monitor, it it trying to open d:\microsoft visual studio
8\common7\ide\%CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES%\UnitTest\UnitTest.exe. My code files
exist on d:\projectsmobile\units\unitsTest\bin\debug\unittest.exe. And on my
device all files are in \Program Files\unittest and if I select the
unittest.exe on the emulator device, it all works. How can I get the path
straightened out?
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Thanks,
Juan

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wjzhang NO[at]SPAM online.microsoft.com (
4/25/2006 12:00:00 AM

Hi Juan,

Please open the project's property in VS2005. In Debug section->Start
Action, check which setting is corrently used.

You can also use 'Start external program' to explicitly specify the path to
test.

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WenJun Zhang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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juan NO[at]SPAM msdnCompany.com
4/25/2006 10:57:01 AM

Start Project is checked. If I run without the debugger it runs just fine,
so it just seems to be an issue with starting the debugger.
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Thanks,
Juan

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wjzhang NO[at]SPAM online.microsoft.com (
4/27/2006 1:05:30 PM

Hi Juan,

Do you mean if you select 'Start external program' and point the debugger
to the correct .exe file, the problem still persists?

Thanks.

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WenJun Zhang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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juan NO[at]SPAM msdnCompany.com
4/28/2006 7:13:02 AM

The managed program will run on the emulator if I select it using the file
manager on the emulator or if in VS 2005 I select start without debugging.
If I choose to debug my simple application, it gives the error I discussed
earlier. On using the "Start external Program", instead of "Start Project",
I guess I don't know what I should put in there. I tried
"%CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES%\DeviceApplication1\DeviceApplication1.exe", but that
gave me the same error.

You can see the connection and everything is obviously working fine, it is
just the debugger is confused as to where to find the application.

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Thanks,
Juan

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wjzhang NO[at]SPAM online.microsoft.com (
5/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Hi Juan,

I mean when using "Start external Program", you can explicitly set the path
to:

d:\projectsmobile\units\unitsTest\bin\debug\unittest.exe

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WenJun Zhang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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juan NO[at]SPAM msdnCompany.com
5/1/2006 4:31:02 AM

We are not making progress here. D:\projectsmobile is my desktop directory.
What I am trying to do is debug on my emulator device. By running filemon we
can see the debugger was trying to use a combination of the desktop and
emulator path. I really need to get this problem solved soon, so if there is
any other information I can provide for you to help move this forward, please
let me know.
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Thanks,
Juan

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wjzhang NO[at]SPAM online.microsoft.com (
5/2/2006 9:53:44 AM

Hi Juan,

Please understand this is no longer a VS setup issue but related to
mobility dev and debugging. I will ping our VS Mobile Dev engineer for
assistance on it. If there are any suggestions or ideas, I will update here
to let you know.

Thanks & best regards,

WenJun Zhang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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wjzhang NO[at]SPAM online.microsoft.com (
5/5/2006 12:00:00 AM

Hi Juan,

I'm still contacting our mobility engineer about this issue. Just a side
note, you may also post a thread to our Compact Framework newsgroup which
may be an appropriate place for you to get ideas and suggestions of this
issue:

microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework

Best regards,

WenJun Zhang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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