Developing and Deploying Pocket PC Setup Applications

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I've developed an MSI Installer a while back according to this
pattern.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms838273.aspx

Of course, it has been updated with VS 2005 and .NET CF 2.0.

It installs the .NET CF 2.0 cab, the English string resources for .NET
CF 2 ( not really optional in practice), and my application CAB. It
uses a custom action of an executable to call winceappmanager with the
name of the cabs.

What part of it is likely to fail on Vista? And give an error like:

"There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program
required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your
Support personnel or package vendor"

I don't have a Vista system myself to test with, so I have to rely on
the reports from end users.

Are there rules I can follow to make the MSI install work?

I don't have the budget to hire an install expert nor become one
myself, so I'm open to non MSI solutions to the problem. I've rejected
solutions like EzPocketSetup in the past because they don't install
more than one cab.

Nathan

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