Mobility Deep Dive workshops

Mobility Workshop in Malaysia done!

2008-06-28T00:36:21Z

Thanks to Yu Tsing & Poh Sze from Malaysia, they completed a series of Mobility Workshops in three states recently and got great results. They ran over 15 workshops in these three states (Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Sabah) covering over 534 developers and 138 students.

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Mobility Metro Peru Done!

2008-05-23T02:38:00Z

Thanks to Ronald Armas and Cesar Fong! Good job guys! Over 27 attendees were trained in Mobile LOB development.

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Enable Remote Debugging on NETCF apps

2008-05-14T19:48:42Z

Thanks to Jon Box for figuring out this problem. This is taken from David Kline's blog but still applies to LAB03. when you want to attach to the running SMS interception process.

By default, support for attaching the debugger to a .NET Compact Framework application is disabled in NetCF v2. This is done to optimize the runtime performance of the application on the device. When attach to process support is enabled, the Just-In-Time compiler generates debuggable code. Debuggable code is larger (to accommodate breakpoints, some optimizations will be disabled) and as a consequence runs slower. Since all NetCF debugging is remote debugging, communications transports are also loaded, which increases the application's working set.

It is important to remember that attach to process support is a device global setting and that every application that runs on NetCF v2 will be run in attachable / debuggable mode. Because of this, I highly recommend enabling attach to process support only when you required and disabling it once you are finished debugging.

To ensure that the transports are properly installed on the device, I recommend deploying / debugging your application once using F5.

Enabling attach to process support
Attach to process support can be enabled (and disabled) using the Remote Registry Editor that is installed by Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2.

WARNING: Using Remote Registry Editor incorrectly can cause serious problems that may require you to hard reset your device. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the incorrect use of Remote Registry Editor can be solved. Use Remote Registry Editor at your own risk.

Start the Remote Registry Editor

Open the Start menu

Select All Programs

Select Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2

Select Visual Studio Remote Tools

Select Remote Registry Editor

Connect to your device

On the Target menu, select Connect

Select your device

Click OK

Enable attach to process support

In the left hand pane, expand the device

Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

Expand SOFTWARE

Expand Microsoft

Expand .NETCompactFramework

Expand Managed Debugger
If this key does not exist, you will need to create it

Right click on .NETCompactFramework

Select New > Key

Type "Managed Debugger" (without quotes)

Click Ok

Set the value of AttachEnabled to 1
If this value does not exist, you will need to create it

Right click on Managed Debugger

Select New > DWORD Value

Set the Name to AttachEnabled

Set the value to 1

Click OK

To disable attach to process support, follow the above steps and either delete the AttachEnabled value or set it to 0.

If you have Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 installed, you can now start your applications without debugging support (ex: Ctrl+F5) and then attach to the process while it is running. I will discuss this more in future posts.

Problem with LAB02 Dictionary Project

2008-05-14T01:43:04Z

Those of you who have issues with LAB02 Dictionary project, there are two issues:

Missing Dictionary.ini file.

This is a manually created file the CEAPPManager needs to have in order to know which CAB files are in a MSI project.
Open Notepad and type in the following:

[CEAppManager]
Version = 1.0
Component = Dictionary

[Dictionary]
Description = Dictionary Application
CabFiles = Dictionary.CAB

Missing DictionaryInstaller folder in the LAB02/EndSolution folder.

Solution is to download the latest MSI file from ftp.mobilitymetro.com

Mobility Metro Memphis starts today

2008-05-13T19:20:30Z

Jon Box is leading this training and he has a class full of partners and customers at the New Horizon's training center in American Way, Memphis, TN.

3 days of in-depth technical deep dive. Woot!

Mobility Metro Content repository

2008-05-13T17:10:00Z

Welcome all. Here's where you get the presentations and workshop materials for the Mobility Metro workshop.

ftp.mobilitymetro.com

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