Create Setup For Pocket PC App

[Joe]

Is there an easy way to create a setup program for my pocket PC app?

 

[William Ryan eMVP]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/h
tml/netcfdeployment.asp
http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/CompactFramework/doc/cabfile.aspx

 

[Frank Lamers]

Hi,

the first link is very interesting to read (nice explaination), but I could
not create a solution by my own afterwards.

I have a PocketPC App written in VB.NET. With Visual Studio I can build
CAB-files. As I unterstood I have to create a separate solution for creating
a setup programm.

The Setup solution consists of three projects:

*Custom Installer: What kind of project do I have to create for that? The
sample project works, but in my created project some libraries are not
found. Depending on the type of project these may be more or less.

*Pre-Build: A C++-Makefile project. I cannot specify a Pre-Build-Event
(there are no events at all). What to do?

*Setup: Under View / Custom Actions I can choose 'Add Custom Action', there
is no problem.

Thanks for advice.

--Frank

 

[Guest]

this is what i am using and it does the jo

http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/airsetup/?e

 

[Boris Nienke]

this is what i am using and it does the job

http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/airsetup/?en

that's an installer which is running on the pocketpc-device. Very
interesting.

I'm looking for a solution to run the setup from the desktop-pc without
having to install the .Net-Framework to that PC!
The PRO for that is:
- anyone can install it (.Net is not yet standard on PCs and just to
install a small freeware it's too much overhead)
- if you hardreset the pocketpc you can easily re-install the software by
going to activesync's software-menu

Any idea?

Boris