Standalone Device Emulator with Windows Mobile 5.0 MSFP Images

[Darius Wey]

Great news for those of you who wish to test your own (or someone else's) applications in an emulated environment. Microsoft has just released a new package containing the standalone version of the Visual Studio 2005 Device Emulator and the Windows Mobile 5.0 MSFP images for the Pocket PC and Smartphone. It's a <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C62D54A5-183A-4A1E-A7E2-CC500ED1F19A&displaylang=en">free download</a> and doesn't require Visual Studio 2005. :)<br /><br />There's also a new post on the Channel 9 Wiki detailing the different Adaptation Kit Updates (AKUs) associated with the different builds of Windows Mobile 5.0. It's a useful resource for those of you interested in finding out which AKU your device has. More information <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/MobileDeveloper.ListOfAKUs">here</a>.

[Eugenia]

You will also need this:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=DC8332D6-565F-4A57-BE8C-1D4718D3AF65&amp;displayLang=en&amp;oRef=http%3a%2f%2fwww.google.com%2fsearch%3fq%3dvirtual%2bmachine%2bnetwork%2bdriver%26start%3d0%26ie%3dutf-8%26oe%3dutf-8%26client%3dfirefox-a%26rls%3dorg.mozilla%3aen-US%3aofficial
Without it you can't install the emulator.

[runbuh]

Any idea how to get the Motorola Q skin to install? It is checking for the presence of the full SDK, and generates an error if you try to install the skin with just the emulator installed.