We’re in luck! I got the Emulator and Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK installed properly on my Windows XP 64 machine. Upon installing the SDK a template for Mobile applications magically appeared in Visual Studio 2005.
Here’s what I installed:
- Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK for SmartPhone
- Microsoft ActiveSync 4.2
- Windows Mobile Developer Power Toys
- Standalone Device Emulator 1.0 with Windows Mobile OS Images
- .NET Compact Framework 2.0 Redistributable
If you’re looking for SmartPhone OS Images that aren’t in English, you can find them here.
I was feeling particularly dangerous so I fired up the Emulator and started an image with a test project in it. Everything worked just fine. The only thing that I noticed what the the Emulator uses a ton of memory. I’m on a dual 64bit machine here with only 1gb of RAM and it slows everything down. Between Visual Studio, the Emulator and Firefox, I’m using 400mb of memory at any given time. (Not including other applications.)
