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Vista users: In case you are getting stuck again with getting your device emulator to connect to the Internet after cradling it: Don't miss the last step in the Mobile Device Center!

In the Mobile Device Center, you should see the green check mark and "connected". However, that is not enough. Make sure you click on "connect with out setting up your device". Only after this step you can connect to the network (and the Internet). Check it out by running Internet Explorer in the device emulator.

If you can pull up a Web page you are good to go!

MH

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You can connect the emulator directly to the network without involving ActiveSync.
... and that's no April fools day joke.

So, there are two ways to connect to the network
1) simply cradle the emulator and connect via ActiveSync to the network,
2) use the VPC network driver to directly connect to the network (no ActiveSync involved).

If you want to achieve the latter, the first step is to see whether you have the VPC driver installed. Start the emulator and choose File->Configure ... from the top menu.
In the configuration dialog window, choose the Network tab. Check the "Enable ... network adapter" box. If you do not have the VPC, you will get a message at this point. If you are able to check the box, you have the VPC driver already.

If you do not have the VPC driver, go download and install it. Then try to check the network adapter  box again in the configuration dialog of the emulator.

To test whether you can connect to the network with your emulator, just start the Web browser and try to connect to a Web site (i.e., google.com).
If this does not work, check the following:
In the emulator, choose "Settings" from the start menu (drop down from the top left corner).
In settings,  choose the  "Connections" tab, then click on "Network Cards". The drop down list for "My network card connects to" should show "The Internet".

MH

I finally got around to check out how to connect the Smart Device Emulator in Vista. (See the course FAQ for doing this in XP.)

The big difference is that ActiveSync is replaced with the Windows Mobile Device Center.

It turned out to be pretty straightforward in my environment and fairly similar to setting up ActiveSync in XP. I tried this on my laptop running Vista Ultimate and Visual Studio 2008 (not 2005!). Before starting the device emulator I went to the mobile device center and opened up the connection settings. The only thing I had to adjust is the "allow connections to the following" (see image).

The "allow connection to the following" option has to be checked and DMA (direct memory access) needs to be selected. Then I started up the emulator via the device emulator manager in Visual Studio (Tools->Device Emulator Manager).

I cradled the emulator and ... it connected without a hitch.

Now, if you use Visual Studio 2005, you need to download and install the new device emulator (version 2). Visit the following sites for more information.

http://blogs.msdn.com/anandba/...

http://blogs.infosupport.com/blogs/willemm/...

Let me know if you still run into issues.

MH

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