How can I speed up communications with the Smartphone emulator?

By Yaroslav Goncharov, January 28, 2003.

Question

It takes more than 20 seconds on my fast computer to download the "Hello World" application. How can I speed up communications with the Smartphone emulator?

Answer

Each time you are trying to download or execute something on the Smartphone emulator, eVC tries to configure the emulator to trust signed applications. ("Provisioning the device..." message in the Build panel). It is not possible to configure the emulator in this way; eVC uses time outs to detect this problem. Therefore, the provisioning process takes several seconds.

To fix this problem and save about 10 seconds for each operation with the emulator you can disable this post-download step for x86 targets.

• Project->Settings->Settings for: "Multiple configurations". Choose "Win32 (WCE x86) Release" and "Win32 (WCE x86) Debug". Press OK.
• Choose the last tab in the project settings dialog ("Security"). Clear the check box in the "Device Configuration" section.

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