Hi,
Has anyone else had problems using Remote Spy provided with Visual Studio 2005's Smart Devices functionality
I have been seeing an issue which pretty much makes it unusable in my scenario. What happens is I can connect to a Windows Mobile 2005 device via ActiveSync (or an emulator via DMA) and obtain a list of windows.
However if I select a given window and attempt to view the window messages being sent to it the log suddenly stops after the first couple of messages.
For instance if I attempt to log the window messages sent to the rich edit control within Pocket Word and proceed to type a couple of characters I may see the WM_KEYDOWN and related messages for the first one or two keys but then the log suddenly stops scrolling and although the application continues to operate fine Remote Spy doesn't log the messages into it's find.
Has anyone noticed this behaviour or know of a work around It is making the tool virtually useless for my debugging needs.
Thanks,
Christopher Fairbairn
Remote Spy suddenly stops reporting window messages
dcrooks
I found a walkaround but I do not know whether it works in your environment. Take a look here:
Remote CE Spy shipped with Visual Studio 2005 fails to intercept windows messages: Check the solution here!
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Lao K
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GaboG
Hi Christopher
Yes, I can repo this- we ran into the same problem.
Please report this issue in the MSDN Product Feedback Center (http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback) as this probably a problem with the tool.
The only workaround I'm aware of is to use the remote tools shipped with eMbedded C++ 4.0 SP4. Availabe for download here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/windowsmobile/downloads/default.aspx)
Thanks!
Michael