Posted on December 1, 2003 10:45 PM by chadley
Well, it took me 3 hours but I finally figured out how to get the Access database that I am using in my PocketPC (PPC) program from the PC to the PPC emulator. I had to copy the MDB file from the pc to my REAL PPC. Once I did that, the ActiveSync program converted the mdb file to a cdb file, which can be used on the PPC. The problem is, the cdb file you have on the real PPC has to be copied now into the emulator.Luckily, if you go to the menu in Embedded Visual Basic, specifically to
Tools - Remote Tools - File Viewer
You can connect to your real PPC in the cradle and browse your way to the My Documents directory on the PPC. When you find your cdb file, select it and pick Import File from the menu. This lets you save the file onto your PC.
Now you have to connect the fileviewer to your PPC Emulation. I had to shut down the file viewer and restart it to get it to connect. Go to the My Documents directory. In there you select Export File from the menu. This brings up a file dialog box where you pick the cdb file that you've copied off of the real PPC.
From there it's pretty much straight forward. Now I'm off to write some vb code to use this database!
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