Create patch deployment package

[K L Nats]

Hi,
Can someone tell me how one can create a patch installation package(cab) for
a c# application targetted for Windows CE platform? For desktop windows/web
applications we use microsoft's Orcas tool to create a patch installation.
Does Microsoft provide something similar available for Windows CE
applications? What are the third-party tools that can be used to build a
patch?

Thnx

 

[Guest]

There really isn't a way - you just deploy an entirely new CAB. You could
reasonably create a CAB that only deploys the changed assemblies and files
if you want, but if it was uninstalled, the original app would be broken.

 

[patash]

There really isn't a way - you just deploy an entirely new CAB. You could
reasonably create a CAB that only deploys the changed assemblies and files
if you want, but if it was uninstalled, the original app would be broken.

Hi,
One can install two cabs in the same path, \\Program Files\\myapppath
\.
By that with the second cab u can replace files and add new as well.
So by making your second cab (pacth) name different and not allowing
its entry in the remove/installed programs u can achieve the same
thing.
However make sure that the setup.dll from the first cab removed all
the files from the above path.


Ashish