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Exclude setup.dll from Smart Cab Project in VS2008

I have added some custom actions to our installer which is run on CE5 and WM6. This installer works fine and builds fine. There is however one annoyance. The setup.dll is deployed to the device and this file is not necessary. I've read several websites on creating a setup.dll file, MSDN and even the mobile SDK. They all state the same s...

CF - Application installation CAB (including .net cf ...)

Hello ! Can some1 please explain how can i include this installations in my CAB file. NETCFv35.wm.armv4i.cab NETCFv35.Messages.EN.wm.cab Also on some devices the user has to confirm several DLLs that i would like to awoid. Im told that i should use ILMerge, but i dont know exactly what to do. thanx ...

CF - Language directory missing after installing CAB on device.

Hello ! On some of the controls im using locatisation (language property). Besides default (that is in english) im also using additional language (slovenian). Other localisation is done with application resource file. If i debug the app on emulator there is a directory (si-sl), but if i build a CAB and install the CAB on emulator ther...

Issue with ressources files in CF

Hi, I've done a compact framework app with sevral ressource files for globalization, and packagd everything into a CAB file. My problem is that some of this ressources files seem to be unreadable (changing culture goes to default culture). All this ressource file are identical, excepte of course for translation. And when I copy files g...

How to add icon file in the cab file of mobile application ?

I am developing smart device application in C#. When I deploy my application on emulator it shows the default name for the exe of my application & there is no icon associated with it. Now I have added an icon to the exe of my application by right clicking on the project & selecting the properties from the solution explorer in visual stud...

Unknown header on a custom .cab file

Hello everyone! Well, I'm kind of stuck with this. I am hoping one of you can shed some light. I'm working with a cab file, and need to make some changes on it. It's not a standard cab file, though. It pretty much follows the standard for .000 file and the MSCF specification. However, at the very beginning of the file, it has somethin...

.NET Compact Framework: CAB file configuration

I have a Windows Mobile application that I send to my client as a CAB file and then he installs it to 20 mobile devices. This application communicates with web service and has config.ini file in the Program Files/app_name/ folder to store the web service url. The drawback of the current approach is that client can change WS url only afte...

How can I automate extraction of a CAB from an executable on windows?

On *nix boxes, cabextract can do the trick. Is my only option on windows to install cygwin? ...

SCSF Calling services asynchronously

Hi guys, are there any best practices for calling SCSF services asynchronously? Particularly I'm interesting in: Executions of requests in background; Cancellation support; Reporting progress. Currently I came up with two scenarios: Listener Service which listens in background for real-time updates and displays received data in g...

Signing a cab file

Hello experts, Disclaimer: I have no experience in signing the files and this is my first time. We have a wildcard SSL certificate for our websites. Now we are going to host an ActiveX control on one of our sites. When I try to sign my cab file using that certificate it gives error "private key and the certificate does not match or doe...