From: Ritchie Hughes [MS] (ritchieh@take-this-out.microsoft.com)
Subject: RE: eVC++ SP2 breaks remote tools
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsce.embedded.vc
Date: 2003-08-18 16:22:56 PST


There are two issues here, both of which are known problems.

First, the links to the Remote Tools are updated when SP2 is installed so
that they point to the wce420 versions. However, 4.0 and 4.1
devices/emulators require earlier versions of the tools. The earlier
versions of the tools have the same filenames but are located in the parent
directory:

+ Program Files\
+ Common Files\
+ Microsoft Shared\
+ Windows CE Tools\
+ Platman\
+ bin\ <-- 4.0/4.1 versions here
+ wce420\ <-- 4.2 versions here

To fix this issue, update or create new shortcuts on the Tools menu via
"Tools > Customize... > Tools".


A second problem occurs if you have installed SP2 on top of eVC4 without
first installing SP1. In this scenario the tools in "bin" are the versions
from Platform Manager 4.0. The SP1 installer upgrades these to 4.1 (which
is compatible with 4.0 devices) and but the SP2 installs the 4.2 tools
side-by-side (because they are not compatible with 4.0/4.1).

To fix this scenario I recommend that you uninstall SP2 and then install
SP1 and SP2 in order.