Passing cabs to Application Manager

[Tony]

Hi,

I'm building an application using the Compact Framework.
For Installation I'm using Application Manager
(ceappmgr.exe)
with ActiveSync.

I have to pass several cab-files to the Application
Manager. But
the order in which the cab-files will be executed on the
pocket pc
do not match with the one I pass the files to the
Application Manager.

Since one Installation depends on the other, an ugly
message appears
"xxx requires the installation of xxx". Is there a way to
set the
order in which the installations will be executed?

Thanks, Tony

 

[Brian Chamberlain [MS]]

I don't know if this will help or not, but you might try creating multiple
.INI files (one per CAB) and calling CEAppMgr more than once. MSDN has
some documentation on how to do this at :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wcesetup/htm/_wcesdk_Using_the_Appli
cation_Manager.asp?frame=true

In short, you can use the "/register" flag to add .INI files to the list of
.INI's that CEAppMgr will process, but without actually telling CEAppMgr to
install the associated CAB files immediately. If you have any questions
about how to do this, or if this method doesn't work for you, don't
hesitate to let me know. We'll get this figured out.


This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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| Hi,
|
| I'm building an application using the Compact Framework.
| For Installation I'm using Application Manager
| (ceappmgr.exe)
| with ActiveSync.
|
| I have to pass several cab-files to the Application
| Manager. But
| the order in which the cab-files will be executed on the
| pocket pc
| do not match with the one I pass the files to the
| Application Manager.
|
| Since one Installation depends on the other, an ugly
| message appears
| "xxx requires the installation of xxx". Is there a way to
| set the
| order in which the installations will be executed?
|
| Thanks, Tony
|