Web and WebWorks Development

[Robtimus]

I am using the BlackBerry Web Plugin (v2.0.1.10) for Visual Studio 2008 SP1, running on Windows 7 (32-bit). I created a simple Hello World web site to test, and when I debug and the simulator pops up it doesn't load the OS - it just hangs.

I have searched through this forum for some solutions, and I have done the following:

-Uncheck "read only" for the plugin folders

-Ensure my version of Java & set the appropriate environment variables

Is there anything else I need to do? Has anyone else experienced this issue? Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.

[tneil]

Is this running on a VMWare instance or on the desktop itself?  We had seen some issues with VMWare and Windows 7.

[Robtimus]

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tneil wrote:

Is this running on a VMWare instance or on the desktop itself?  We had seen some issues with VMWare and Windows 7.

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This is running on the desktop.

[tneil]

Hi there,

I was talking to one of our developers here and he had mentioned that there are some interesting things that Windows 7 does to virtualize the directories that the simulator is running in.

His suggestions were the following.

First close down the simulator and then try deleting:

C:\Users\<username>\net\rim\fledge-2

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\Research In Motion\BlackBerry Widget Packager\simpack 

Along with the dmp files in:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Research In Motion\BlackBerry Widget Packager\simpack\

[Robtimus]

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tneil wrote:

First close down the simulator and then try deleting:

C:\Users\<username>\net\rim\fledge-2

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\Research In Motion\BlackBerry Widget Packager\simpack 

Along with the dmp files in:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Research In Motion\BlackBerry Widget Packager\simpack\

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I followed your instructions, with one exception: I do not seem to have a VirtualStore directory in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\. On running the simulator, I still experienced the same issue.

[pavel_fa]

Tim,

I have exactly the same issue which prevents me from debugging mobile web apps using the Web plug-in (for VS 2008 running on Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bit) 

There is another post on the same issue (with my comments there):

http://devblog.blackberry.com/2010/03/blackberry-web-plug-in-for-microsoft-visual-studio-setting-def...

So as you can see there are multiple people experiencing the same problem with Web plug-in for Visual Studio.

Another issue with the simulator - the only way to get its screen updated is to cover it with another window for a short while; that forces repaint of the affected area.  

[tneil]

We're trying to figure out what is different in your environment than our test environment.  

We have no problems here with any of our Windows 7 32/64 bit testing systems and also have many customers using these operating systems which makes me think it has something to do with an environment setup.

When you are launching the simulators, are the simulators the ones packaged with the plug-in or an additional simulator you have downloaded and installed?

Did you upgrade an existing Visual Studio installation?  Or did you install fresh?

[Robtimus]

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tneil wrote:

When you are launching the simulators, are the simulators the ones packaged with the plug-in or an additional simulator you have downloaded and installed?

Did you upgrade an existing Visual Studio installation?  Or did you install fresh?

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I am only using simulators packaged with the plug-in. My Visual Studio install is fresh.

[pavel_fa]

I tried original simulator (9700) packaged with the plug-in as well as others 9550, 9650.  Same issues for all of them.

My VS is a fresh installation on a new system with a fresh installation of  Windows Server 2008 R2 x64. JDK 1.6

In the instructions for the Wb-Plugin there is nothing mentioned about environment setup, I wonder what can make you suspicious here?

[tneil]

Well, we don't officially support Windows Server 2008 as a tested platform.  Our system requirements are for XP, Vista or Windows 7.

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/browserdev/devtoolsdownloads.jsp

Which is why on the Windows 7 environment I was thinking it was environmental considering we have performed extensive tests on this operating system.