ActiveSync installation issue on a Mac OS X

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Neville Lang

Hi all,

I have a Pocket PC app that I sell to consumers. My app is on a CD therefore
depends on using RAPI and ActiveSync for its installation since it has EXEs
on both the desktop computer and the Pocket PC that enable interworking with
a third party app in Windows on the desktop.

I have a customer query about installing my app. They have reported that
they cannot install MS ActiveSync on a Mac OS X. My customer has a Dell Axim
X50 and they use a piece of software called Missing Sync to sync the MS
programs to Outlook on the Mac - everything works well there. They have also
installed Virtual PC 7 and run some Windows packages without a problem.

Does anyone know why MS ActiveSync cannot be installed onto a Mac OS X?
Unfortunately, I do not have any error messages to pass on at this stage but
merely wanted to know whether anybody has a Pocket PC app using the Mac OS X
configuration.

Regards,
Neville Lang
 
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Neville Lang

Hi all,

While thinking on this issue, another question arose as to whether the full
..NET Framework will work under Virtual PC 7 on the Mac OS X. Does anyone
have any experience of this?

The reason I ask is that while I depend on ActiveSync for installation, I
also depend on the full .NET Framework on the desktop due to EXEs I have
there.

Regards,
Neville Lang
 
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Ilya Tumanov [MS]

There's no AS for Mac, hence the "Missing sync".

You should consider creating native Mac installer which would use "Missing
sync" capabilities instead of AS.

Please see this for more details:
http://www.markspace.com/missingsync_PPC_SDK.pdf

Best regards,

Ilya

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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Neville Lang

Ilya,

Thank you for that clue - I will follow it up.

Regards,
Neville Lang




"Ilya Tumanov [MS]" said:
There's no AS for Mac, hence the "Missing sync".

You should consider creating native Mac installer which would use "Missing
sync" capabilities instead of AS.

Please see this for more details:
http://www.markspace.com/missingsync_PPC_SDK.pdf

Best regards,

Ilya

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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Hi all,

I have a Pocket PC app that I sell to consumers. My app is on a CD therefore
depends on using RAPI and ActiveSync for its installation since it has EXEs
on both the desktop computer and the Pocket PC that enable interworking with
a third party app in Windows on the desktop.

I have a customer query about installing my app. They have reported that
they cannot install MS ActiveSync on a Mac OS X. My customer has a Dell Axim
X50 and they use a piece of software called Missing Sync to sync the MS
programs to Outlook on the Mac - everything works well there. They have also
installed Virtual PC 7 and run some Windows packages without a problem.

Does anyone know why MS ActiveSync cannot be installed onto a Mac OS X?
Unfortunately, I do not have any error messages to pass on at this stage but
merely wanted to know whether anybody has a Pocket PC app using the Mac OS X
configuration.

Regards,
Neville Lang
 

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