Microsoft Remote Display Control application was provided to remote the display and keyboard/mouse/touch screen of a windows CE device to a desktop. The application itself uses TCP/IP and can work over ActiveSync connections (to the host desktop, no routing off of the host), via Ethernet (to any reachable desktop, does not include any support for proxy servers etc) or dialup.
Remote Display control for Windows CE works on any platform running Windows CE version 2.11 or later.
Three different types of people use this application:
Marketing/Sales: Useful to demonstrate applications on the device, can be used to get the screen display on a large screen.
Program Managers/Developers: Useful to get screen shots of applications or for developers that are not happy switching keyboards/displays too often when doing UI tweaking or bug fixing.
BSP Developers: BSPs (Board Support Packages) are the low-level software written to allow Windows CE to work on a device. This includes the OAL (OEM Adaptation Layer) and drivers for the hardware device. The client will function as a display driver so that people who either don't have the hardware or haven't written the driver yet can use this in place of the real display/keyboard/mouse driver, with remote connect it could be installed into headless devices as an alternate way to manage them.
Installation directions:
Connect device to desktop via ActiveSync 3.1 or higher.
Run RemoteDSP.exe from the desktop. If you haven't installed the program yet, you can download it from here.
NOTES:
The desktop version number must match the client version number.
The following describes the procedure step by step.
1. Run Remote Display Control from PC
Launch Remote Display Control server application from a PC.
2. Run cerdisp on PDA
Tap Start->Programs, double tap cerdisp icon  to launch the client program from a PDA.
Tap Connect button, leave the Hostname as is in the popup window, and tap Ok button, which connects the server program on the PC. Once the connection is established, you can use the Remote Display Control program to control the device remotely.
3. Disconnect
To disconnect the remote control, click the cerdisp icon from either the PC or the PDA, then click Disconnect button.
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