available now, the company says.
Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.1 emulators emulate an ARM processor, and allow the mobile operating system to be run on Windows XP or Vista desktop computers. The Windows Mobile Standard emulator simulates non-touchscreen devices, and must be operated with the aid of an emulated keypad (below left). The Windows Mobile Professional emulator simulates touchscreen devices, and may be driven using a host computer's pointing device (below right).
Microsoft's Windows Mobile Standard (left) and Windows Mobile Professional (right) Device EmulatorsIn the webcast, presenters Constanze Roman and Maarten Struys review the history of Windows Mobile emulators, and detail the new features of Device Emulator 3.0, which ships with
Visual Studio 2008. According to Roman and Struys, the latest emulator offers the following benefits:
- Programmatic access to all installed emulator images
- Access to interfaces from desktop applications/scripts
- A friendly and easily customizable interface, as an alternative to the command line
- The ability to save preferred emulator settings under "My Device Emulators"
The webcast shows how to configure the Device Emulator using the Device Emulator Manager "to meet your specific device requirements," and how to use Cellular Emulator to emulate phone calls and SMS (short message service) messaging. "We also demonstrate how to customize your own emulators, and how you can programmatically control Device Emulator," the authors write.
Constanze Roman, a community program manager with Microsoft's Windows Mobile team, has been working in the Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded field for more than seven years, and frequently participates in webcasts, blogs, and other activities aimed at the Windows Mobile developer community, according to Microsoft. She maintains her own blog devoted to Windows Mobile development,
Constanze's Mobile Musings.
Windows Embedded Evangelist Maarten Struys is a technical manager at PTS Software in the Netherlands. Struys speaks regularly at Windows-related conferences, according to Microsoft, and is also a freelance journalist who maintains
a blog on the
.NET for Devices website.
Further informationTo download "24 hours of Windows Mobile application eevelopment: device emulator and cellular emulator (level 200)," go to Microsoft's MSDN website,
here. For more information on Microsoft's Windows Mobile emulators, see our earlier coverage,
here.
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