While I was doing the SMS GChat application
I need to send and receive SMS to my device emulator. But first let’s start by the beginning, what
the cellular emulator.
The cellular emulator is a nice tool that
is provide when you install the SDK. May
be you didn’t notice but if you go trout you’re Start menu: Programs | Windows
Mobile 6 SDK | Tools, you will found a Cellular emulator.
The Emulator is a simple window with some
tabs. I will only explain the Call Manager
and the SMS tab.
Configure the phone emulator
Before you can use the phone emulator you
need to connect it to your device emulator.
To do it it’s very simple. First
start both emulator the device and the cellular, the order is not important.
Then on the low left corner of the phone
emulator you will see a inscription like DE: COM3. It’s mean that this emulator is working with
the COM3 (in y case it could be different for you).
On the device emulator go in the menu File
| Configure. Then select the tab Peripherals.
The first dropdown on the top, Serial port 0, shouldn’t have the COM 3
already so type it in. Then click OK
button. Again in the File Menu this time
choose to reset softly. You have now the
two emulator configured to work together.
Tab: Call Manager
In this tab you will found the tool for the
phone (regular voice) call.
On the top you will found a grid with the
list of the call the device emulator did.
On the device type any phone number and
“do” a call. You will notice that the
number you type will be added in the Active Calls grid.
If you want a do instead a call from the
phone emulator then you need to type a phone number in the Phone Number textbox
and click the Dial button. Notice that
the number you type represent the number you call from.
Tab: SMS
Like previously the tab is simple. In the top the Text area is to send a
message. The Phone Number will be use as
called ID. On the bottom as you can you
expect the grid is for the message you receive from the device.
Conclusion
Now you know how to
configure and use the phone emulator.