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Hi,
After finishing my first app for PPC with the Compact Framework, I followed
an article showing how to create a setup project that would package all my
CAB files in an MSI file and then lanch the CeAppMgr.exe passing it an INI
file containing a list of the CAB files from which CeAppMgr can decide which
one to install according to the currently connected device. (this article
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/netcfdeployment.asp).
This is pretty much the standard way to deploy a CF app on a PPC as I could
see. On my dev. machine it works very fine. I execute the setup.exe and
CeAppMgr installs the ARM cab file on my HP Jornada and it works very nicely.
So I send the package to my boss for him to try it on an iPAQ 4150 PPC as
it's the PPC our client will be using.
CeAppMgr launch the install but on the device it says something like "...was
not installed successfully. Please run Setup again". If the ARMV4 (this is a
PPC 2003 device) CAB file is installed manually, the application runs just
fine. So this is something caused by CeAppMgr I guess but I really don't know
why ,I just pass the INI file to it and everything in that INI file is normal.
For now I tried to manually install the Compact Framework SP2 before
installing my app, it did not change anything. I made sure that ARMV4 CAB
file was the first in the list of the INI file and it did not change anything
neither.
I don't really know what to do as I don't have much control over what
CeAppMgr.exe does. Anyone has an idea of what the problem is ? Any advice is
welcome!
Thanks,
Sylvain Bujold
After finishing my first app for PPC with the Compact Framework, I followed
an article showing how to create a setup project that would package all my
CAB files in an MSI file and then lanch the CeAppMgr.exe passing it an INI
file containing a list of the CAB files from which CeAppMgr can decide which
one to install according to the currently connected device. (this article
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/netcfdeployment.asp).
This is pretty much the standard way to deploy a CF app on a PPC as I could
see. On my dev. machine it works very fine. I execute the setup.exe and
CeAppMgr installs the ARM cab file on my HP Jornada and it works very nicely.
So I send the package to my boss for him to try it on an iPAQ 4150 PPC as
it's the PPC our client will be using.
CeAppMgr launch the install but on the device it says something like "...was
not installed successfully. Please run Setup again". If the ARMV4 (this is a
PPC 2003 device) CAB file is installed manually, the application runs just
fine. So this is something caused by CeAppMgr I guess but I really don't know
why ,I just pass the INI file to it and everything in that INI file is normal.
For now I tried to manually install the Compact Framework SP2 before
installing my app, it did not change anything. I made sure that ARMV4 CAB
file was the first in the list of the INI file and it did not change anything
neither.
I don't really know what to do as I don't have much control over what
CeAppMgr.exe does. Anyone has an idea of what the problem is ? Any advice is
welcome!
Thanks,
Sylvain Bujold