Developing SQL Server CE based Pocket PC Applications using Visual Studio.NET - Installing SQL Server CE onto a Pocket PC emulator: deploying the application
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Before proceeding with the following steps, make sure that you completed all the steps in the previous section.
- Execute your application by pressing F5 and you should be looking at something like the following (Fig4).
- If necessary, you can also click the "Set As Default" button and switch off the check box to not show in the future.
- Finally click on "Deploy."
- After a few seconds, your Pocket PC emulator should look like the following image (fig5).
- After a few more seconds, you should observe the emulator behaving as shown in the following image (fig6).
You can observe that the first part of the above figure (fig6) shows the installation of .NET Compact Framework and the second part shows the SQL Server CE installation (which is after the .NET Compact Framework). Finally, after a few more seconds, we will see our application with the button. Once you click on that button, it simply shows a message something like the following (fig7):
The above process is repeated every time you execute your application. If you face any deployment errors, just close any existing emulators and try pressing F5 again (without switching on the emulators manually by yourself).
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