Microsoft Device Emulator 3.0 -- Standalone Release

Brief Description

This is the v3 release of the Device Emulator, that released with Visual Studio 2008. V3 updates the V2 emulator that released with Windows Mobile 6.

Overview

Microsoft Device Emulator 3.0 is the third publicly released version of the Device Emulator for ARM-based devices. This emulator will also release with Visual Studio 2008. Device Emulator 3.0 will replace the executables and DLLs from previous releases (1.0 and 2.0). The main addition with Device Emulator 3.0 is the new automation API for the device emulator manager, which allows developers programmatic access to perform the same operations on installed emulator images that can be performed interactively on the Device Emulator Manager drop-down and context menus.

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System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP

Windows XP SP2, Windows 2003 Server SP1, Windows Vista

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Instructions

To install the emulator, run the executable that is provided with this download. If you are installing the emulator for the first time and intend to use it as a standalone product for running your applications, then you will have to register the binaries that come with this release. When installing on Windows Vista, you will need to run the installation as an administrator.
Note on Windows Vista running on x64: We have also released a separate download for x64 Windows Vista systems. This installer contains a version of SerDMAASPlugin.dll compiled for 64-bit systems.

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Additional Information

Here are a few useful links with information about using the Device Emulator Manager Automation Interfaces with Visual Studio 2008.

Sample code on automating the Device Emulator Manager using the IDeviceEmulatorManager interface.
MSDN Online documentation on the features of Device Emulator 3.0

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