Install third party programs directly from the pocket pc handheld

[Torbjorn Stavas]

Hi!

I'd would like to be able to distribute my application on a
flash-card. The purpose of this is to let the user re-install the
application without the help of a computer, if the handheld had been
reset because of drained batteries.

After reading in the newsgroup, this doesn't seem to be such a big
problem. But since i also want to use a bluetooth keyboard, there's
third party applications that has be installed also. Is there any way
to install these kind of applications directly from the pocket pc
handheld?

//Regards, Torbjorn

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

This article should give a good overview of your options for deployment with
some useful links:-
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...y/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/DeploymentPatterns.asp
also
http://www.pocketpcdn.com/sections/installation.html

As long as your keyboard software is in the form of a standard CAB file
which is most likely, you can install this automatically as part of your
autorun.exe on the storage card - ensure that you put the file onto the
storage card and mark it as readonly otherwise it will be deleted after
installing once.

Peter