Handheld Emulators

Mimer SQL Mobile supports a large number of emulators in the Windows environment. These emulators are used with Visual Studio 2005.

One emulator for Symbian is supported by Mimer SQL Mobile.

Pocket PC emulators and Smartphone 2003 emulators

Emulators from the following software development kits may be used with Mimer SQL Mobile:

Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK for Pocket PC
Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK for Smartphone
SDK for Windows Mobile 2003-based Pocket PCs
SDK for Windows Mobile 2003-based Smartphones

To work with an emulator, you perform the following steps:

Start the Device Emulator Manager on the Visual Studio 2005 tools menu.
Right click on an emulator and choose Connect.
When the emulator is running right click again and choose Cradle. At this point ActiveSync should start and connect to the emulator. If it does not, make sure that the Connection Settings on the File menu in ActiveSync allows connections to DMA.
If Mimer does not automatically start a Mimer installation choose Add/Remove programs on the Tools menu in ActiveSync. Install Mimer by checking the appropriate check-boxes.
In the Mimer Administrator create a Remote database with protocol set to Rapi.
You will be prompted to:
- Create a database definition on the device (emulator in this case).
- Create a database directory on the device.
- Export database files to the device.
Test the Mimer installation on the device with, for example, the Mimer Explorer.
Deploy and run your Mimer SQL Mobile applications on the emulator.

Symbian emulator

The Symbian emulator comes with the Symbian SDK (Software Development Kit). This emulator shares environment with the Windows system installed, and partly runs in its own environment.

In particular, the file system and TCP/IP-stack for MIDlets is shared with the Windows system, while other components use the Symbian native TCP/IP-stack.

When Mimer SQL database files are exported to the Symbian emulator, database files should be placed in the emulators \data\Mimer. Once database files has been exported, the Mimer database server may be started. Note however that since the Mimer SQL exporting tool cannot stop and start server you have make sure the emulator server i stopped before attempting to export.

Currently, Mimer cannot import databank files from the Symbian emulator.