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New Smart Device Team Blogs

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The trend is spreading!  Two of the teams we work very closely with have launched their own blogs recently.  Check out the .NET Compact Framework Team Blog and the Visual Studio for Devices Team Blog.

[Author: Robert Levy]

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  • Anonymous
    July 28, 2004
    This is almost surely the totally wrong place for this, but I've searched for hours with no joy. Where can I find skins (preferrably a recent iPaq) for the emulator included with the PocketPC 2003 SDK? The 2001-vintage Journada look just isn't doing it for me. :-)

    Thanks!
    -c
  • Anonymous
    July 29, 2004
    Hi Charlie,

    The emulator engine is actually included in eVC and Visual Studio .NET 2003 - when you install the SDK, you are installing additional emulator "images" of the OS.

    The Pocket PC 2003 SDK includes new skins, however by default, they will only be used when you load one of the "images" from that SDK.

    It is possible, (though not necessarily easy), to configure the loading of an emulator image to force a particular skin to load. It really hinges on exactly what you are attempting to do.

    The skins themselves, for the PPC 2003 SDK, are stored in the "emulation" subdirectory, which in a default installation will go to:

    C:Program FilesWindows CE Toolswce420POCKET PC 2003Emulation

    If you look at EMUL.CMD, you will see how you can launch the emulator engine to force a particular skin to load.

    NOTE: you will only get the EMULATION directory if you install the SDK AFTER having installed eVC 4.0.... because it depends upon that installation for the emulator engine, (which does not ship in the SDK itself).

    Hope this helps,

    Larry Lieberman, Program Manager,
    Mobile Devices Developer Experience
  • Anonymous
    July 29, 2004
    I have eVC installed and the SDK installed, so I have the emulation directory, but it only has one skin (and one more in its phone subdirectory) in it. I must be missing something. (We could take this offline if you'd like to emial me at cwood at spanningsystems dot com.) thanks!
  • Anonymous
    July 29, 2004
    Those are the only skins we provide and I'm not aware of others being provided by 3rd parties. Dale wrote a blog post a while back about how the skinning system works and instructions for removing the skin completely: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2004/04/01/106055.aspx
  • Anonymous
    July 30, 2004
    OK, thanks!
    -c