Comments on Mobile PractiCEs: How to create a windows mobile (Smart Device) .Cab...

Hi Jose, I read your article. It was very well wr...

2011-08-05T02:41:37.988-03:00

Hi Jose,

I read your article. It was very well written and helped me a lot. I really appreciate your work.
I am new to mobile application development and developing an application for the platform Win CE 6.0 in C#.NET. After reading your article I was quite able to create the cab installer
of my application and it has been deployed successfully as well. Thanks to you once again.

I would like to extend my application further by giving it the functionality of Auto Update:
1) Whenever a new versions of my application becomes available it starts updating my application without losing the existing saved data.
2) During the update process if any error occurs it should be roll back to the previous state.

Can you please help me in this regard. Assume that my application has all the access to newly available updates and can download it.

I have sent you an email too.

Regards,
Waseem

Great Post. It helped alot. I am still looking fo...

2011-08-04T12:10:27.257-03:00

Great Post. It helped alot.

I am still looking for a way to change the installation directory on the target device.

Thanks
Ishay

Great post it helped alot. One Question: Is there...

2011-08-04T12:07:49.973-03:00

Great post it helped alot.
One Question: Is there a way to control the installation directory on the target device.

Ishay

Greate article.This one is very helpful for me amo...

2011-07-25T02:51:11.922-03:00

Greate article.This one is very helpful for me amongst other.

thank you
Mayur

Very nicce!

2010-11-30T01:04:39.748-03:00

Very nicce!

thanks!!!

2010-11-24T07:23:15.316-03:00

thanks!!!

i am trying all steps same as given above but when...

2010-11-01T11:30:49.665-03:00

i am trying all steps same as given above but when i try to run my cab on emulator it shows an error create an entry for non-executable project cannot started directly....

Hy, I follow your steps but when i try to create s...

2010-09-22T04:27:19.719-03:00

Hy, I follow your steps but when i try to create shrtcut i can not found the right empty panel your talking about , it doesnot show in my VS!!
Please help.

Jose as some one said above you rule

2010-08-12T21:36:00.418-03:00

Jose as some one said above you rule

Nice Article

2010-08-10T06:24:34.625-03:00

Nice Article

Nice Articles

2010-08-10T06:23:40.691-03:00

Nice Articles

neat, nice & going thanks for the tutorial.....

2010-08-06T19:22:58.084-03:00

neat, nice & going

thanks for the tutorial...

Hi, I need to know how to create a localized CAB....

2010-05-23T19:00:25.358-03:00

Hi,

I need to know how to create a localized CAB. This means my application should have another name, install path and link based on the system language. Does anybody have a clue?

Great article, thank you!

2010-05-05T03:04:22.793-03:00

Great article, thank you!

Great article Thanks you! My problem is that under...

2010-02-15T14:36:41.946-03:00

Great article Thanks you!
My problem is that under Registry tab, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE doesn't have subfolders as described in the article. Am i missing something? Any idea? I am a newbie so pardon my ignorance.

Great article, thank you! I have done everything ...

2010-02-01T06:29:49.529-03:00

Great article, thank you!
I have done everything what You wrote, but one error still occur.
The error is "cab file "..." could not be created" and I have no idea what to do with this :/
Do You have any idea?

Excellent and detailed article helped me to have q...

2010-01-15T09:51:46.500-03:00

Excellent and detailed article helped me to have quick understanding of cab building process.

I have a question we are using Visual Studio 2008, .Net CF 3.5 with SDK 6.1.

But cab building is failing always. We tried on multiple machines but still unable to resolve. Any pointers. We tried few suggestions in web like short path name, .inf file in same folder as wizard but nothing seems to be working.

Any ideas on this will help me to take this to closure

great article, thanks for the help.

2010-01-15T00:11:08.545-03:00

great article, thanks for the help.

Thank u again for your comments. @Zah00r: 1) You ...

2010-01-14T14:15:38.594-03:00

Thank u again for your comments.

@Zah00r:
1) You can create a special Folder on the File System view called "Startup Folder", the same way you create a Start Menu Folder or a Programs Folder.

2) To make that possible you need to build your own downloader, but it only makes sense if your downloader can be previously installed on the device.

Fantastic Article. Thanks.

2010-01-14T13:23:05.637-03:00

Fantastic Article.
Thanks.

Very nice article!! I have 2 questions regarding c...

2010-01-13T07:03:08.204-03:00

Very nice article!!
I have 2 questions regarding cab file.

1) in my application user may wish to re Start the application on device reboot. e.g i have setting page where user pay check/uncheck option "Start On Boot". so how can i make a cab file which may do this functionality.

Previously what i did was i just put it into start up and it was restarting always on rebooting.

2)how can i make it autorun. e.g if user downloads/copy when downloading/coping is complete it should automatically start installing.

Thanks.

Thanks a lot man! Really helpful! Just to finish ...

2010-01-12T06:46:30.372-03:00

Thanks a lot man! Really helpful!

Just to finish the task, another pal wrote about registering file extensions on the mobile device: http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=211

iam working on windows application, while creating...

2010-01-06T12:02:05.128-03:00

iam working on windows application, while creating project setup iam unable to set application icon. by default iam getting file type icon but not the selected one in application tab properties(in resources)....can any one help

I found this site using [url=http://google.com]goo...

2009-11-13T03:53:53.242-03:00

I found this site using [url=http://google.com]google.com[/url] And i want to thank you for your work. You have done really very good site. Great work, great site! Thank you!

Sorry for offtopic

Hi Nishith, About showing your logo while install...

2009-09-16T10:09:04.411-03:00

Hi Nishith,

About showing your logo while installing, unfortunatelly that's not possible. You should return codeINSTALL_INIT_CONTINUE b/c the hook is for pre-installation.
Btw, answering your second question, you do have a way to check the SQLCE version.
In your device registry, you can check for
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition\v3.5]
If you're looking for a specific build you can also look for
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition v3.5 [EN]]
which includes MajorVersion, MinorVersion and BldNum values.

HTH!