I am developing WinMobile 6 application using Visual Studio 8 on Windows 8.
When i cradle the emulator i dont get data on the emulator. As you can see from the image i have data connection checked in connection settings.
Win7 used to show a phone image in Device center when i cradle an emulator; but Win8 shows a laptop image(i'm using laptop) - i dont know if this is some sign something is wrong.
Except for not having data on the emulator everything seems to work fine. When i deploy my program it gets to the device fine.
I tried cradling and un-cradling different emulators to get this to work per similar SO post but that did not help.
What could be wrong here? thanks in advance.
As you can deploy and debug apps from VS using the established connection, the connection is working in general. WMDC always sets up a TCP/IP connection, a normal (PPP) or enhanced (RNDIS) one.
In WMDC-Mobile Device Settings is a connection setup where you can switch the PASSTHRU options:
This computer is connected to:
Often I have to switch between "Automatic" and "Internet" to get a working internet connection on the dvice thru the WMDC connection.
Now you should be able to open a web page on the device. If not, possibly a firewall setting blocks the connection. You possibly want to follow http://modernnomads.info/wiki/index.php?page=Windows+Mobile+Device+Center+Troubleshooting to troubleshoot further.
The "Allow data connections on device..." option enables the device to use another WLAN or WWAN connection and should always be ticked.