Fellow MVP Peter Nowak told me about My Mobiler after reading my ARD blog post above. My Mobiler is a tool very similar to the ARD tool but better and best of all it's free.
There are a few things with My Mobiler that make remotely controlling your device from your desktop easier and more feature rich than ARD. Some of these features are as follows:
- Auto reconnect to your device after being previously connected via ActiveSync without having to close the application and reload it as you have to do in ARD.
- Automatic deployment of the device host (remote.exe) when you run the client tool on your desktop. This used to work with ARD in pre WM5.
- Support for landscape mode.
- Support for recording a video (very cool feature).
- Support for saving image to file or clipboard.
- System tray icon for quick access
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Rotating the screen.
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Result of copying the screen to the clipboard (contents of clipboard).
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You can record video to an AVI which is quite neat for things like demoing etc. I've provided an example below of this.
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Screen in landscape mode after invoking this from the tool.
Example of a recorded video using the record feature in the tool.
My ActiveSync_Remote_Display is now shelved :)
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