Microsoft Stand-Alone Device Emulator CTP
I've been on the road quite a bit lately and doing a lot of talking about Exchange SP2 and all the great new mobility features. I have a VPC demo that showcases the new Windows Mobile 5 using a standalone device emulator that you can download off the ms.com website (link below). This emulator will even cradle with ActiveSync so you can install software, etc...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/windowsmobile/downloads/emulatorpreview/default.aspx
There's an updated Virtual Network Driver as well:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=dc8332d6-565f-4a57-be8c-1d4718d3af65&DisplayLang=en
To get the WM5 emulators (there's no easy way to do this) working - follow these steps:
You need to download the SDKs for Windows mobile 5.0 (PPC and SP) and install them on a machine with Vs 2005 beta 2 or RC. You can get these from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=83a52af2-f524-4ec5-9155-717cbe5d25ed&displaylang=en
and
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=dc6c00cb-738a-4b97-8910-5cd29ab5f8d9&DisplayLang=en
You now need to extract the .bin files and you'll have to use the MDE command line to start up a WM5 emulator session.
An example for the PPC 2003 looks something like this:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Device Emulator\DeviceEmulator.exe" PPC_2003_SE_VGA\PPC_2003_SE_VGA_WWE_ARMv4.bin /video 800x600x16 /sharedfolder c:\setup\ipaq\backup\temp /memsize 64 /s SE_VGA.dess
You can replace the .bin with the WM5 .bin and then launch the command (or create a shortcut).
The Emulator team is working on a new standalone version of the emulator that will include WM5.0 images. However, i do not have an ETA for the next release.
The things I suggest you try is to either install the SDK on a machine that has Visual Studio 2005 installed and manually copy the image to another machine. If you do not have access to a machine with VS2005, you could try to manually open the MSI with custom tools that deal with MSIs. Something like this will help you extract specific files from the MSI file.
