Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Windows Mobile: How to view processes on a Windows Mobile Device or Emulator


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In a windows mobile device you can only view the running applications, and this is only if the application has a form. This means that you cannot view various processes that are running on a WM device, like you would be able to do on you PC, or Laptop using the "Task Manager'. fortunately, Visual Studio, has a solution for this problem:

Go to Visual Studio ->Remote Tools and select Remote Process Viewer

visual studio remote process viewer

Select the device which you would like to see its processes.

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you will get a window, with all process that are running on your Windows Mobile device. In this window you will be able to view the processes and kill them, just like you would be able to do with the regular Windows "Task Manager"  :)

In addition to a list of processes, you can also see other info as threads, and from what module is the process.

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4 comments:

Yohay on April 9, 2008 at 4:09 AM said...

After the arrival of the iPhone and Nokia's N95, I guess that most mobiles will become much more sophisticated than today. Thus, the next versions of Windows Mobile should have fewer limits, and development will need less workarounds like the one you've presented here.

Jasmine’s Mobile World » Blog Archive » Windows Mobile,C#: How to minimize your application/Send it to the background on April 9, 2008 at 7:15 PM said...

[...] Jasmine’s Mobile World « Windows Mobile: How to view processes on a Windows Mobile Device or Emulator [...]

'ILLEGAL on April 14, 2008 at 4:36 AM said...

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JAJAH Development Blog » Blog Archive » Windows Mobile,C#: How to minimize your application/Send it to the background on June 19, 2008 at 7:53 AM said...

[...] in the background, and there was no way for me to close or access it! Lucky enough, I used the Remote Process Viewer to find my application and kill it. It seems that when Hiding a form (form.Hide()), The form is [...]

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