Device Center 6 and Windows 2008 :(
The other day I had to purchase a new laptop, a beast of a machine x64 2.8ghz with SSD (love the quietness!!!)…
So with the excitement of a new shiney brings then comes the realisation that I need to build the development environment again!
Then I thought, hmm, Virtual Environments…
I then remembered that MS VPC’s don’t have any USB support…
Arrh, says Google, but VMWare does…
After what felt like an age I gave up on trying to convert a VPC to VMWare and just cracked on with building the VPC I started in the first place…
I’ll come to sorting out the VMWare issue when I need to, I can live without the USB and the device debuging it brings for the moment.
That was until today when I final got the time to complete the Windows 2008 x86 VP install…
“The update could not be installed because at least one Windows component required by Windows Mobile Center is missing”
This link is a fix that works for some, but it would work for me as it requires you to connect a physical device to your install.
Now that doesn’t me stop building applications in 2008 as the Emulators work fine, as do the new SDK’s…
It just stops me from using the “Cradle” feature within Device Emulator Manager which in turns enables a connection not only to the network but to the host machine (that becomes more useful over time, trust me!)
Anyone else had this issue? Or am I just plan mad trying to develop on Windows 2008, should I just stick to 2003 and Vista?
Tags: Development, Virtual PC, Visual Studio 2008, Windows 2008, Windows Mobile Device Center 6