visual studio 2008 - Deploying an application to Windows Mobile Pocket PC

Question

Iv been encountering problems with disk space when deploying my app to a pocket pc emulator.

So what Iv done is set up a shared directory on my pc to simulate a SD card, Iv copied the program there manually and then run it from the emulator, with this approach I still need to do the visual studio deployment as well so that so that the .net compact framework gets copied over.

How do I make visual studio deploy to the shared dir? The 'Output file folder' is grayed out and I can only choose from a list of pre-defined locations.

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Sorry maybe I want not clear, when I said "I can only choose from a list of pre-defined locations", I was referring to the the options in the [..] menu. I need some sort of free text entry. I want something like d:MyShare.

The best I was thinking is to manually edit the solution xml, but that seems a poor approach?

Answer 1

The "Output File Folder" under Properties->Devices is greyed out, but the [...] button just to the right of it isn't. Adjust it there.

NOTE: To clarify, You click on the [...] button and you get a dialog that allows you to select a folder from the device ("Location of output on device") and enter an additional subfolder ("Subdirectory"). Now it may seem that you're forced to use a specific folder here, but one of the dropdown options is "Root Folder" which is "". You can then add your folder, like "Storage Card" as the Subdirectory and get a deployment folder of "Storage Card". Intuitive? No. But you can construct any output folder you want.