title: WinCE VS2008 connect to device failed on emulator when physical device is not connected
body: <p>I'm doing some development on a WinCE device (Windows Handheld Embedded 6.5.3 to be exact) device lately. I've had the application running well on the device, on emulators, and on PC (I even created a desktop debugging environment using <em>Deploy to My Computer</em> by the Moth<a href="http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/deploy-to-my-computer.aspx" rel="nofollow">1</a>).</p>
  
  <p>The application runs happily on all three platforms ONLY when a device is physically connected and active sync showing. If the device is unplugged from the wire, then start debugging by F5 targeting an emulator, even though the emulator then opens up and being able to connect to the Internet, there it goes "Deploy failed" on status bar of VS2008, and the error list showing "Connect to device failed". </p>
  
  <p>I don't know why. Every post on the Internet says they have a problem with the device while the program runs fine on the emulator. My problem is the contrary. Has anyone came across this before?</p>