Running Applications Under Emulation

There are two ways to run an application under emulation:

    To run an application under emulation

1. From within the Visual Studio IDE, click either the Execute or Go button on the toolbar, or click Execute on the Build menu. This will start EXPLOREM.EXE and FILESYS.EXE to execute your application within the emulation window

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2. From within the emulation environment, click the Start button, click Run, enter the path for your executable file, then click OK.

Note The default display area for the emulation window is the upper-left corner of your screen.

The emulation environment mimics the memory capacity of the Handheld PC and displays appropriate error messages when memory limits are exceeded. Be aware that some applications run faster within emulation than they will on the Handheld PC. This is partly due to message handling on desktop machines.

Even though Handheld PC message handling and the message queue are emulated, some subtle differences exist. Use emulation through the final stages of development, but always test applications on the remote device before you release the application.