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Windows PPC and Windows Mobile devices from Symbol and Intermec are used quite often enterprise warehousing. They are rugged devices and give you a wide range of development options to interface with your MultiValue database. While you can write a GUI application to take advantage of all the devices features, it takes time.
You can create a proof of concept, and a full blow production application using a telnet client for the PPC.
You actually have several options:
Here are some steps you can use to install vxHpc:
1) Make sure ActiveSync is installed.
2) Extract vxHPC to a folder on the hard drive
3) Browse to the folder and run then program: installCE.exe
This program will install the files into ActiveSync's install/Uninstall section so you can install on more than one device.
4) The installCE program will try to install the telnet program onto a device. If it can not, then it will setup it so that the install will happen once the device is synced.
5) Copy the Scanwedge.exe program to the Pocket PC.
Open Windows Explorer and go to the following location: (the Pocket PC must be in the cradle for this to work).
Mobile Device\Pocket PC\Windows\Startup\
Copy the ScanWedge.exe program to this location, and then Reset the device.
6) When the device resets, you will see the Scan Wedge Icon in the lower right hand corner:
7) Tap this Icon to configure Scan wedge. Make sure you have the IR Beam turned off before you enable the scanner. If you do not, then the program will crash and you will have to restart it manually.
To turn off the IR Beam do the following:
Start | Settings | Connections | Beam
Uncheck the box.
8) Now you can start the Telnet program:
Start | Programs | Communications | vxHPC
9) You may have to create New Session to connect to your machine. If you have already created a Session, then double-tap the session you created to start your telnet connection.