Shared Release Folder on a Virtual CEPC (Compact 7)
3/12/2014
When you double-click My Device on your virtual CEPC desktop, you see several folders, including the Release folder, as shown in the following figure.
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As shown here, the Release folder is a network share - Platform Builder exports this share from your host computer. If you are using "VCEPC" for the name of your OS design, Platform Builder exports the following path on your host computer to create the Release network share:
C:\WINCE700\OSDesigns\VCEPC\VCEPC\RelDir\VirtualPC_x86_Release
On your virtual CEPC, this shared folder is available at the path:
\Release
Note that this Windows Embedded Compact path is not prefixed with a drive letter.
You can use this shared folder to transfer files to and from your virtual CEPC. For example, you can copy media files into this folder for testing media applications on your virtual CEPC, or you may have output files generated by your application that you want to transfer back to your host computer for examination.
In Develop and Run an Application on a Virtual CEPC, you started your application from the Target menu in Platform Builder. You can also run your application from the virtual CEPC command prompt, which includes \Release in its PATH environment variable.
To run MyBootName from the command prompt on your virtual CEPC
Click Start on your virtual CEPC desktop, click Programs, and then click Command Prompt.
Type MyBootName at the command prompt and press Enter.
This command starts MyBootName.exe from the \Release path on your virtual CEPC. When you build your application in Platform Builder, the build process copies the final executable to the VirtualPC_x86_Release folder on your host computer; therefore, this executable is also available in the \Release path on your virtual CEPC. When you start MyBootName.exe on your virtual CEPC, you are actually starting MyBootName.exe from the VirtualPC_x86_Release folder on your host computer.