Wednesday, April 24, 2002
Entrek introduces must-have tool
Posted by Andy Sjostrom in "DEVELOPER" @ 05:06 AM
http://www.entrek.com/
I have been testing Entrek Software's new product, the Entrek TOOLBOX Windows CE Edition version 1.2, for a while. I simply LOVE this product! The TOOLBOX contains of two applications running on the desktop PC: CodeSnitch and Procman. The applications connect to the emulator or the physical device over an ActiveSync connection.
CodeSnitch provides a very detailed view of what's really going on in the Pocket PC while your application runs. This is great for debugging and testing. The tools catches memory and resource leaks, heap corruption, invalid parameters passed to APIs, and API failures.
The other application, Procman, keeps track of every loaded process, thread, window and module. You can even work with these objects from Procman: send messages to windows, change priority on threads and so on.
The $495 price tag for a single user license is not even a full day's consultancy fee. Since this tool enables developers to fix problems much faster it's an investment not very difficult to justify. My final verdict: excellent!
I have been testing Entrek Software's new product, the Entrek TOOLBOX Windows CE Edition version 1.2, for a while. I simply LOVE this product! The TOOLBOX contains of two applications running on the desktop PC: CodeSnitch and Procman. The applications connect to the emulator or the physical device over an ActiveSync connection.
CodeSnitch provides a very detailed view of what's really going on in the Pocket PC while your application runs. This is great for debugging and testing. The tools catches memory and resource leaks, heap corruption, invalid parameters passed to APIs, and API failures.
The other application, Procman, keeps track of every loaded process, thread, window and module. You can even work with these objects from Procman: send messages to windows, change priority on threads and so on.
The $495 price tag for a single user license is not even a full day's consultancy fee. Since this tool enables developers to fix problems much faster it's an investment not very difficult to justify. My final verdict: excellent!
