I have created a new home screen plug-in, but I can't get it to load by selecting Settings->Home Screen. I'm sure the home.xml is ok. It appears that the problem is with the IHomePlugin Initialization somewhere. What I would like to do is debug this on the emulator from VS2005. However, it seems the way initialization takes place is for the settings.exe process to spawn a new home.exe process specifically for the purpose of initialization, and then the new home.exe process terminates. I can't see a way to attach to the new home.exe process so that I can debug the plug-in during initialization. Is there some way to do this?

Hi Theone

Add a messagebox to the IHomePlugin::Init() as a first line of code. Load the home screen. You will see the message box. At this point use Debug\Attach in VStudio and then dismiss the dialog box

Oxygen

Thanks Oxygen! That worked great. I'm just new enough to this that I did not think about that trick.