Installing OpenNet CF cabs.

[Joshua Maeir, KTG]

Greetings.
Newcommer to the group here, getting my feet wet in the PPC world.
Excuse my noob question if they are such.

I am working on an inherited project that uses OpenNetCF on PPC 2003.
The Visual Studio project was supposedly tweaked to also install the
OpenNetCF libs, however its does not.

I am faced with the following issues:

1) How can I install the OpenNetCF cabs on the PPC in order to quickly get
the app running and debugged.

2) What is the best way to add external (i.e. external to VS)
cabs/libs/files to a PPC project in Visual Studio so that it will be
installed when a Install project is created in VS.

3) For the future, what are the installers that you guys might recommend
that can do a better job that VS; in particular, install files exactly where
I want them, put shortcuts in different places etc etc. I'd be happy if it
did the job that VS does with regular PC installs.

Thank you in advace

Joshua Maeir
Sr. Software Engineer
Kesser Technical Group
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

If you install the OpenNETCF package onto your development machine this will
give you all the required dlls that your existing project has referenced.
You then have the choice of either using an installer which can install the
OpenNETCF cab first and then your application cab separately, or you can
manually edit the .INF file used to build your application cab file and add
the required dlls in.
NSIS was discussed on the Smartphone developer newsgroups a while back and
one of the developers posted some sample script to deploy multiple cab files
to a device - details in this blog post:-
http://blog.opennetcf.org/pfoot/PermaLink.aspx?guid=0e1fd92d-9efb-4c9e-9c10-506b10cf9afe

Peter