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How to prevent Windows (Mobile) installer from overwriting registry key values

Hi! I'm wrapping up a Windows Mobile (6.1) app I've written and everything goes fine and dandy, but I've got one nasty problem: My app needs a few registry keys for settings and I can create them in the installer (using the registry editor) fine, but my problem is that every time I run the installer to update a new version of the softwa...

Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) vs. Composite UI Application Block (CAB)

We are currently looking at either using CAB or MEF for our next application. I didn't see any examples on codeplex of how event brokering is handled for sibling control communication, maybe I missed it. How does inter-control communication work in MEF? Also, we are planning on using Infragistics which has provided additional compon...

Which WinForms CompositeUI framework to choose???

Hi all, my team is minutes before developing the head application for our company and we ran into roadblock in our design. my team develops WinForms application in C#, .NET 3.5. The first thing we need to do in our design is to decide which CompositeUI framework to use. Well, first we were sure that we are going to use CAB. but is it ...

How to correctly uninstall a running Windows Mobile today screen plugin?

I'm creating a cab installer for a today screen plugin for windows mobile. When the user activates the today screen plugin it is loaded by the shell. When the user now uninstalls the plugin, a message appears that the device should be reset. How do I correctly uninstall the today screen plugin from the device? Maybe waiting for an "unlo...

Constructor injection working... Property injection not so much

I am using Composite Application Block. I have a class that uses constructor injection (using the [ServiceDependency] attribute on the constructor parameter) and it's working. But when I try to switch to using property injection (with the [ServiceDependency] attribute on the property), the injection is not happening (the property stays...

extract cab file and execute the exe file(inside the cab file) automatically

Hi! I have a cab file(w/ an executable file inside) embedded on my webpage. When the user access the page the cab file will be automatically extracted and the executable file inside should be executed as well. Is this possible? My hunch is that this will be configured in my inf file but I don't know how. I would appreciate your help in t...

How do I put a shortcut on the Programs menu on Windows Mobile in the installer cab?

Where do I put the shortcut icon for my mobile application in the Installer project for a Windows Mobile project so that when the cab is installed the icon will show on the Programs Menu? ...

In CAB is a service it's own module?

I'm learning Composite Application Block and I've hit a rock about services. I have my shell application in its own solution, and of course a test module in its own solution (developed and testing completely independent and external of the shell solution). If I created a service named "Sql Service", would I need to put this in it's own l...

Install .cab file outside of IE

Our company’s computers are locked down so users cannot install anything. Now, we have just bought a service that requires the download and install of a cab file. When I go to the web page with this control installed under my admin account, everything works fine because I have rights to install it. But if I go to that web page under my...

Debug Installation Of ActiveX Control in Internet Explorer...

I have an ActiveX control that runs on a website, where the old version installed fine. Of course it runs and installs perfectly on the development computer. The new version is versioned with a new name and a completely new CLSID. The new version brings up the installation dialog in Vista in Internet Explorer 8 (with the correct Digi...

Deploy system DLL inside CAB file

I’m looking for a way to deploy a system DLL within my ActiveX CAB file. CAB cannot update system file and whole installation fails. Perfectly, I would like to copy the DLL into ActiveX installation folder. My best suggestion (I didn’t try it yet) is using INF file hooks with some standalone installer, but I wonder is there another way...

SCSF: display view from another view against button click

hi. i am facing one problem in SCSF. I have two workspaces MdiWorkspace DeckWorkspace i have two views in a module Viewer (display in mdiworkspace) Property Viewer (in deckworkspace) in Viewer i have a button in toolbar whose purpose is to display PropertyViewer (another View). how can i display this PropertyViewer in deckwork...

Programmatically configure an EntLib CAB CacheManager

Currently I'm having to include a significant chunk of XML in the app.config to get the CAB CacheManager going and I'd rather hide the configuration away in my code. Is there any way to programmatically configure an Enterprise Library Caching Application Block's CacheManager? ...

Delete a registry value using a CAB installer

Is it possible to delete a registry key using a CAB installer that is generated using VS2005? The CAB is targeted at Windows CE 6. Edit: I did find this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=415990, but I was hoping to find a way to do it using VS2005 or VS2008 and in an easier way. (I did not even start to try the instruct...

WinForms Dynamic Localization

We have CAB (Composite Application Block) based smart client winform application. One of our software requirement is to replacing the text dynamically when the user change the language option provided in our application. We support around 6 languages including east-asian(Chinese/Japanese), European Languages(Russion, spanish, English,...

Extract CAB files with PHP

Running PHP on IIS6, how can I open and extract the contents of a CAB-file? Is there any way of doing this witout using exec? I don't have permission to run stuff with exec. ...

Reading from ServiceReferences.ClientConfig in WCF in Silverlight 3 in a dynamically loaded .xap file

I'm using Silverlight 3 Prism (CAB) with WCF When I call a WCF service in a Prism module, I get the same error: "Could not find default endpoint element that references contract 'IMyService' in the service model client configuaration section. This might be because no configuaration file was found for your application or because no end ...

How to make .inf file for my .cab file ActiveX Installation

I have made an ActiveX controll (.dll) file.. I want to test it in my development enviornment.. I am signed it with the a test certificate I have created on my machine.. Now the next step is I want to make a .cab file for it.. and for that I need to know How to make the .inf file for .cab file? Please help me out. ...

ActiveX not working properly with default security settings

I have written an ActiveX control in C# and have made it working using regasm command, and it works fine as long as the security level is set to low.. Then as a next step I have made a .cab installer (ICD - Internet component downloader), and have signed my .cab file and ActiveX .dll file with a test certificate. when I hit the html pag...

CAB installation failing on new Windows Mobile 6.5 devices

We use a CAB file through a webpage to deploy our mobile application to our customers. Now with the new Windows Mobile 6.5 devices, the cab file is downloaded as a .tsk file (when using the new Internet Explorer). Naturally the installation fails to install the application as a theme. If the file is downloaded in Opera, or you change th...