Where is Windows CE Platform Builder 3.00?

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I need to emulate a Windows CE executable on my Windows 7 64-bit machine. Back in the day, I used eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0's bundled device emulator, but nowadays the cool kids want me to use "Platform Builder" and ActiveSync. So I found a Windows CE Platform Builder 3.0 update here, but I can't find the original download, which it requires:

PB not installed: Please install Windows CE Platform Builder 3.00 before
installing this Update.

My problem stems from having installed the Standard CE SDK (STANDARD_SDK.msi) and a Windows CE BSP, which shows up in Visual Studio 2008's "Device Emulator Manager", but I can't connect to or run them. The Pocket PC images work, though.

Where do I find Windows CE Platform Builder 3.00?

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1 Answers

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Platform Builder 3.0 is really, really old and I doubt any distributors carry it any more. When it was a shipping product, a distributor (Arrow, Avnet, etc) was the only place you could get it, so that's where I'd at least check on the long-shot chance.

That said, I'm not at all sure why you feel you need it. Platform Builder is for generating an OS image. PB is a difficult tool to get to know, and the 3.0 version was unwieldy at best. It's also not going to run under 64-bit. It also can't create an OS that runs on a 64-bit machine. It also cannot create an SDK that will plug into any version of Studio (well it might work in VS 2003 - it's been a long time since I did that).

What it actually sounds like you're after is an emulator and image for that emulator for a basic CE 3.0 device. Microsoft shipped the HPC Pro emulator, which was a 3.0-based device with the EVC tool set, though I've got no idea where you'd find it (short of digging out old MSDN disks).

For what it's worth, the PocketPC 2003 images are CE 3.0-based, so you do have a CE 3.0 emulator today - it's just not a more generic CE build.

Ideally I think you need to tell us exactly what you need. An emulated version of what sort of CE 3.0 OS? What components? Targeting what OS (the old emulator would only do x86, so if you have some ARM or MIPS app, that was never emulated anyway).