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Brian Lyttle
Brian Lyttle

Reputation: 14579

Windows Mobile Device Emulator - how to save config permanently?

I am working at a client site where there is a proxy server (HTTP) in place. If I do a hard reset of the emulator it forgets network connection settings for the emulator and settings in the hosted Windows Mobile OS. If I 'save state and exit' it will lose all of these settings. I need to do hard resets regularly which means that I lose this information and spend a lot of time setting:

How can I make my life easier? Can I save this as defaults in the emulator, or create an installer easily?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2391

Answers (2)

ageektrapped
ageektrapped

Reputation: 14562

There is a way you can programmatically provision your devices. If you're using managed code, you can use Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Configuration.dll to do most of the work for you. If you're using unmanaged code, you have to use DMProcessConfigXML native function.

There's more details in this blog post by Andrew Arnott.

Upvotes: 0

Nick Berardi
Nick Berardi

Reputation: 54894

The problem with these devices is everything is stored in the RAM and ROM. So you need a second alternate device storage for these settings, just like a real device. So that when a real device, or your device is reset, it has a statically stored configuration file outside of the RAM that can be loaded on start up. The alternative is to do soft-resets if possible.

Upvotes: 0

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