Can't deploy application to emulator using VS2005 Beta 2

Hi
I installed Vs2005 two days ago and was impressed by how easy it was to test on the emulator. Everything worked smoothly, I pressed the debug button and the emulator loaded, all the files required installed and the app ran.
Today I loaded everything and it just won't work. The following errors come up -
"Deployment and/or registration failed with error 0x80070003. The system cannot find the path specified."
Sometimes if i click ignore error I get %CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES%\TestDraw\TestDraw.exe cannot be run.

I can ping the emulator and it works. I have a router which provides the ip address for all computers on the network. Also if I click on the connect to Emulator button it tells me that it has been successful.
I have read the forums and have tried the following
1. Deleted corecon folder - no joy.
2. Installed DMA update and I noticed no difference. (I didn't do anything apart from run the file asI am not sure if I am meant to do any configuration after)
3. Removed and reinstalled the emulator.
It is just odd as it was working one day and then the next day it doesn't want to play at all.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[1205 byte] By [Bandobras] at [2008-1-28]
# 1

Can you run the application from the emulator file explorer, without using Visual Studio? I suspect that the emulator is missing a required dll. You might have had a saved state with the required files and now might be booting without this saved state.

CarlBrochu at 2007-9-8 > top of Msdn Tech,Smart Device Development,Device Emulator General...
# 2
Hi,
sorry for the late reply as I have been at sea for a bit with no connection.#

I was unable to run any .net version 2 programs as the emulator was in a fresh state without that installed. The first day when it was working, the .net compact framework was installed automatically.

I have managed to get it working again after removing and reinstalling everything a couple of times and deleting a load of registry entries. For some reason on the reinstall it came up with an error saying that the compact framework v2 could not be installed. Even though i had removed it through the add/remove programs it was still there and everything now works.

When I did a repair from the disk the problem wasn't fixed. I don't remember doing anything untoward between it working and not working but i'll post something if it goes again.

Regards
Andrew Ellis

Bandobras at 2007-9-8 > top of Msdn Tech,Smart Device Development,Device Emulator General...