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VS2005 Beta2 and Pocket PC 2003

I have VS2005 Beta2 installed. I am trying to develop a native C++ application for Pocket PC 2003. I use ActiveSync 3.8

I get the error "Connection failed. The current version of ActiveSync is not supported. Install the latest version from www.microsoft.com".

Could someone help me with resolving this problem.

Thanks

-Anthony

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# 1

Hi,Visual Studio 2005 requires Active Sync 4.0 to work and a preview download for that will be available shortly. I will make an update on the VSD Team blog (and reply to this post) when it is available for download.

http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdteam/

Thanks
Amit

AmitChopra at 2007-8-21 >

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# 2

Hi,
As I want to develop Applications for pocket PC 2003 SE too it would be nice to make active synce 4.0 ASAP available.

rgerbig at 2007-8-21 >

# 3

Until ActiveSync 4.0 is available, you can use the fantastic new emulator. I highly recommend it. It even works in Virtual PC and VMWare Smile

NeilCowburn-MVP at 2007-8-21 >

# 4

Neil Cowburn - MVP wrote:
Until ActiveSync 4.0 is available, you can use the fantastic new emulator. I highly recommend it. It even works in Virtual PC and VMWare

And very cool it is, but for those of us doing anything remotely associated with Pocket PC hardware (i.e. graphics accelerated apps) this is basically a complete brick wall to moving further with the VS2005 IDE.*please* can someone post the updated version of ActiveSync ASAP - making it available after releasing the IDE that requires it is to put it mildly unusual planning.

Greg

GregQuinn at 2007-8-21 >

# 5

Actually, releasing an ActiveSync upgrade after releasing the IDE isn't unusual planning, be it mildly or otherwise. ActiveSync is more closely tied to the OS platform rather than the development platform. Historically (as proof of that statement), there's been some movement around new ActiveSync releases whenever there's been some major announcement about the Windows Mobile platform.

NeilCowburn-MVP at 2007-8-21 >

# 6

I don't see the activesync 4.0. Could some one please point me at it?

pkellner at 2007-8-21 >

# 7

It's not available yet.

NeilCowburn-MVP at 2007-8-21 >

# 8

You can find activesync 4.0 beta here : http://www.xoditech.com/wm2005_.zip

Lo1977 at 2007-8-21 >

# 9

The official download is available from Microsoft here:-
http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/4/5/c45f8f83-6383-43d7-840b-cb9638484e4d/setup.exe

Peter

PeterFoot at 2007-8-21 >

# 10

Neil Cowburn - MVP wrote:
Until ActiveSync 4.0 is available, you can use the fantastic new emulator. I highly recommend it. It even works in Virtual PC and VMWare

If only I had it working. When I press the conntect icon it starts up and everything, but the "Connecting..." dialog just keeps on going and going. It never connects.
Anyone had this problem?

Frasse at 2007-8-21 >

# 11

Please shut down VS and delete this directory:

\Documents and Settings\<local user>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\CoreCon\1.0

Also install the connectivity patch from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0E05817F-08D6-48A2-A572-CF77ED72C5BE&displaylang=en

Thanks,

Vladimir

VladimirFedorov at 2007-8-21 >

# 12

With DMA,i hope nobody will meet the error with emulator like me.
I installed DMA,after that a lots of time my solution could not run
debug for pocket pc 2003

JulienT at 2007-8-21 >

# 13

Hi Julien,

Most likely explanation is that you were targetting an image without DMA support - only PPC standard and SP standard are updatated by the patch. So if you tried to use DMA to connect to VGA PPC or QVGA SP - the connection would always fail.

If that is not the case could you expand a little on what happened and what you were trying to do ? Were there error messages ? Or did you get any errors during patch installation ?

Thanks,

Vladimir

VladimirFedorov at 2007-8-21 >

# 14

Hi Vladimir

I think that you know Jeff Abraham ,he helped me so much when
i met the error with DMA.

When using DMA,my solution can compile well but i can't run
debug with emulator or with Device.

It make an error:
Unable to start program %CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES%\JT\JT.exe
so after a lots of time,Jeff sugest that using explicitly the remote
path and debugger target.

And it seems so well until now.So hope that help to other people.

JulienT

JulienT at 2007-8-21 >

# 15

Hi, vladimir

It still die today.
Not understand.

JulienT at 2007-8-21 >

# 16

Hi Julien,

I spoke with Jeff today and it seems that your issue is not related to the transport. It shows up for both device (TCP transport) and emulator (DMA transport) - the problem is more likely to be due to project configuration. I think you already have an email thread going with Jeff so lets resolve this offline and if we uncover something that applies generally - we'll bring it back to the forum.

Thanks,

Vladimir

VladimirFedorov at 2007-8-21 >

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