Windows Mobile debugging in Visual Studio 2005

This may be a problem specific to my configuration, but I have to jump through a few hoops to work around a problem enabling networking on the Pocket PC 2003 emulator. I get the error message "Failed to open the VPC Network Driver. Verify that the driver is installed, or install the driver from the Web download location at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=46859".

I use ActiveSync (4.2) to establish networking rather than the VPC Network Driver.

Before starting the debugger:

1. Make sure that ActiveSync is running (in the system tray).
2. Select "Device Emulator Manager..." from the VS2005 Tools menu.
3. Right click on the desired emulator and select "Connect"
4. Right click the emulator again and select "Cradle". On my machine, ActiveSync tries to connect for 30 seconds but finally gives up with the error message, "Microsoft ActiveSync cannot recognize the device for one of two reasons:"
5. Cancel out of the error dialog, open ActiveSync and go to File > Connection Settings...
6. Click the "Connect..." button and "Next >" on the first step of the wizard. Shortly after the connection process starts, hit "Cancel". It my case this causes ActiveSync to finally connect to the emulator.

Bill