I am building a CAB file for a Pocket PC application in Visual Studio .NET 2005. In VS .NET 2003, there was a fairly straightforward option to 'Build CAB file' in the project context-sensitive menu. As far as I can see, in VS .NET 2005, one has to add a Smart device CAB project. I have followed walkthrough 'Packaging a Smart Device Solution for Deployment' available in VS .NET 2005 online help and completed all the steps. When attempting to build the cab file, I receive the following error in the output window:
Warning: Section [RegKeys] registry value "" has an empty string for the data
Error: CAB file "P:\MyApp_Setup\Release\MyApp.CAB" could not be created
I am guessing that VS wants me to do some extra work in the registry editor in the deployment project, over and above what the walkthrough specifies. Of course, there is a possibility that I am doing something else wrong. Any assistance will be gratefully received.
Cheers
Smart device CAB project - registry error during build
Gabyx
The wisdom of the story seems to be - don't try to use CabWizard on a mapped network drive. Even if you normally develop on a network drive and configured .NET framework to fully trust it. Not that the error message made this very clear. You may notice 'P:\' in the error message I got in Visual Studio. This is the network drive letter. As soon as I try to build locally on, say, C:\, the cab builds without problems.
HD Land
I doubt registry warning is a reason for a failure. Please see if these might be the reason:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=215226&SiteID=1
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=167517&SiteID=1