The other day I had to transfer my entire machine (a Dell Inspiron E5500) to another identical machine, because I had a problem with the sound card of the first one.
I backed it up and restored this backup on the new machine and everything looked fine: I had all my settings, all my files and all my drivers.
Since I was working on a Windows Mobile application, the first thing I checked was if it would compile and execute correctly on the new machine.
So I opened my solution, clicked on debug and surprise, I get this error : “No vpc network adapter enumerated or no host network adapter with provided MAC address found”.
I looked everywhere to see what has been altered, until I finally gave up and looked up on Google for a solution.
What I found is that if you do not have the Virtual Machine Network Services installed, then you’ll get this error.
Furthermore, this driver is not downloadable anymore from the Microsoft web site because it comes with VPC 2007.
I already had VPC 2007 installed on my computer, so I went and checked if I had this driver.
Surprise again when I saw that I did!
Ok, we all know where this led me.
Uninstall VPC, reinstall VPC, reboot, re-reboot and many other vain attempts later, I still had the same error.
Basically all this had nothing to do with this driver.
What solved it was to delete the saved state of my emulator (.dess files located in C:\Users\you\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Device Emulator ) .
Apparently the emulators get bound to a network adapter on the PC, and a change in my hardware led to this error.
Lost one hour, but now I know.
