Unable to find symbol.all.x86.cab

[Guest]

Hi,

I am using VS 2003, Windows CE 5.0 and Symbol Mobility Kit v 1.2. I have
developed a sample application, but i am unable to deploy it onto to the
emulator. It builds fine but while deploying, it searches for
symbol.all.x86.cab which it cannot find. Hence it fails to deploy.

Please help me with this. Thanks in advance.

 

[Ginny Caughey [MVP]]

You should be able to get all the cab files you need from Symbol's web site.
If you do have the cab file and the emulator just can't find it, try copying
it manually to the emulator and exploding it there. This is a lot easier
with VS 2005. Did you really mean VS 2003 or was that a typo?

 

[Ginny Caughey [MVP]]

One other point about VS 2005 and its emulators - they emulate the actual
chips so you don't need different 3rd party DLLs for the emulator and the
device.

 

[kenf]

I am having the same problem... It never USED to be a problem, until my laptop got utterly hosed by InternetExplorer7 (could no longer debug my WebService project. In the process of undoing that, I've totally hosed up my IIS metabase. Uninstalling IIS, whacking the entire c:\inetpub\ folder, and reinstalling IIS didn't help. I could go on much longer...)

Anyways, so I've got my desktop set up for development as well (VS 2003, XP Pro, etc), and got my PocketPC project up and going through the emulator, but not if I include the scanning code from Symbol -- tells me there's no symbol.all.x86.cab file. My laptop had the SymbolMobilityKit v1.2 (sadly, didn't keep that install-file), and I tried copying that same file over to my desktop, but then VStudio chokes on it, version mismatch of some sort, when it tries to actually run in the emulator. The only symbol mobility kit I can find anymore is the v1.4 one.

You should be able to get all the cab files you need from Symbol's web site.

Indeed. But I sure as heck can't find one. :-(

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[Guest]

You're not using the right emulator. The newer emulator that WM 5.0 targets
is ARM-based and would use an ARM cab. If it's looking for x86, that's the
old emulator, which is for PPC 2003 and earlier (IIRC). Symbl likely
doesn't provide one.

All that said, the emulator doesn't have Symbol hardware built into it, so I
doubt their tools will work on the emulator even if they do install.