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This week's poll: Development and the emulator

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How much of your development/debugging do you do on the emulator?

[Author: Dave Stewart]

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  • Anonymous
    July 22, 2004
    At least 95% of my development is on the emulator due to the fact I don't also have a device to connect to my development machine.

  • Anonymous
    July 22, 2004
    80-90% on an actual device. I find it easier to have just one place to debug. I can just take it out of the cradle and perform the GPRS connectivity tests, put it back in and I can test connecting via ActiveSync. Magic!
  • Anonymous
    July 22, 2004
    However slow the connection to the device is, it's still faster by an order of magnitude than the emulator. Sorry, but there it is.

    I'll only use the emulator if I really don't have a device available, which can be the case at the beginning of a project, since we often work with either equipment loaned for development, or part of the eventual end-customer order (my employer mostly subcontracts vertical-market software work for VARs and OEMs).
  • Anonymous
    July 23, 2004
    There's enough differences between the various devices, I don't want to waste time making it work on the emulator.

    Also you should restate the question on your survey page, otherwise it's just confusing.
  • Anonymous
    July 23, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 23, 2004
    There's enough differences between the various devices, I don't want to waste time making it work on the emulator.
  • Anonymous
    July 26, 2004
    I spend maybe 10% of time in the emulator- usually because I don't have a device handy.
    Generally debug on the device remote controlling the device from my desktop.