I think the PocketPC way of installing applications is silly. In most
cases, first you install the CAB file to your PC, and then the CAB file
gets executed on the PPC. This may require admen rights, and places all
sorts of folders in your program files directory.
I think the original reason for this was that there were many different
processor types, and the setup file would determine which cab file was
needed.
Before, I was a Palm user and it was so much easier to install
applications - also very easy to beam applications to other Palm users.
Do Microsoft still think the current (and IMO, overly complicated)
system is needed? Why not create a new standard? Make ActiveSync
automatically open and install CAB files and keep the CAB file, in case
a reinstall is needed. Or course .CAB files have a different use on PCs,
which is another silly design option IMO! So a new file extension,
".ppc" or something.
I may be wrong, but I thought all PPCs had a standard processor these days?
Re: Questions about the CF and the Pocket PC 2003 Emulator ... What's REALLY frustrating me now is how to determine the correct CAB file to ...install for an ARM processor. ... thought about just running the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework End User.msi ... app for each new PPC but unfortunately it brings up an unintuitive dialog box ... (microsoft.public.pocketpc.developer)
RE: SQL Server 2005 faulure when updating to SP1 ... Sorry for taking so much time but they are really huge log files.... The CAB file will be generated for your convenience in the ... %systemroot% is the folder where you install Windows.) ...SQL Server 2005 faulure when updating to SP1 ... (microsoft.public.sqlserver.setup)
Re: Device deployment ... If you want to know the registry entries made on the PC, ...ActiveSync has the means to copy files to a connected device and to run ... the creation of MSI files to install Smart... I wan to write a program which has to install a cab file from desktop to ... (microsoft.public.pocketpc.activesync)
Re: WM 5.0 - installing two cab files - not requiring the user to click on the OK button ... The problem is that if the user does not click on the on-device OK ... button after the first CAB file successfully installs then the second ... I would like the second CAB file to install immediately after the first ... While the installation dialog from the first cab is displayed, the instance of wceload.exe that was instantiated to install that .cab file is still running. ... (microsoft.public.pocketpc.developer)
