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Getting Started with IWS and TwinCAT DRAFT — 8 September 2006
� Second, you can use Remote Display Control for Windows CE (also known as
CERHOST.exe) to open a console window on your workstation that shows the desktop of a
connected Windows CE-based device. Through this console window, you can fully operate a
“headless” device — that is, a device without its own display, keyboard or mouse — using
only your workstation.
Remote Display Control communicates with the device via Ethernet TCP/IP, similar to both
TwinCAT and IWS. However, you must know the hostname or IP address of the device in
order to connect to it, so be sure to get this information beforehand.
Figure 4: Using Remote Display Control to Connect to a Windows CE-based Device
Microsoft includes Remote Display Control as part of their Windows Mobile developer toolkit,
but Beckhoff also offers the utility on their Web site at:
http://ftp.beckhoff.de/Software/embPC-Control/CE/Tools/RemoteDisplay/
For more information about using Microsoft ActiveSync or Remote Display Control, please consult
Microsoft’s documentation.
� Note
– The addresses given above are accurate at the time of this writing, but they may change in
the future as Microsoft and/or Beckhoff update their Web sites.
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