Adopting Strategies for Testing and Debugging

The emulation environment is certainly useful, especially if you have restricted access to real hardware on which to test the applications. The startup options for the emulator allow you to try out applications in various configurations and allow you to get a feel for how an application will perform on platforms with different amounts of free memory, video devices, and so on.

This kind of facility is useful if you are developing a generic application to run on a wide variety of Pocket PC or Windows CE .NET devices. Testing your application on as many platforms as possible before releasing it can be very beneficial, and the emulator is a powerful tool to do this. If you develop a customized version of ...

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