Call .cab from my app

[Eduardo S.E. de Castro]

Hi,
I'm created my app and I want to run a .cab when a user open the app, I
tried to use the same method that I use to open Internet Explorer, but it
doesn't work.

String strProgPath = "\\mycab.cab"; //Path is correct, I verified the path
ProcessInfo pi = new ProcessInfo();
CreateProcess(strProgPath, "file://"+ sfDialog.FileName, pi);

Nothing happens, if I use "IExplore.exe", it runs.

Thanks
Eduardo S.E. de Castro - MCSA/MCP

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

It's becasue CAB files cannot be "run". They are extracted with
wceload.exe, so you need to run wceload with the CAB path as a parameter.
Something like this:

CreateProcess("wceload.exe", cabPathAndName, pi);

-Chris

 

[jez]

I had a similar problem. Have a look at the following thread :
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...c.dotnet.framework.compactframework&scoring=d