Hi i am creating a cab file to install a program written in visual basic.net onto a pocket pc. The program was written in visual studio 2005. The project that creates a cab file uses cf version2 and my pocket pc although capable of windows ce 2003 has the earlier version. According to the help file my program will still run on my ppc but i may need to create my cab file using cf1 dll's. My question is how do i do this. I have tried opening the smartdevice cab file project and adding all the dll's but when i click on the project output choice on the right click menu all the v2 dll's are included.
any ideas
creating cab files
Puil
I'm afraid it's not that easy as adding some files into CAB, in fact it has nothing to do with CAB. NETCF V2 application will not run against NETCF V1 whatever you have DLLs or not. You have to compile against V1 so it would be NETCF V1 project. You can create new NETCF V1 project, add all files from existing one, fix numerous compile errors (because V2 features won’t compile on V1) and workaround missing functionality (since V2 has functionality not available on V1), only after that it would work. Basically you’ll have to redo your entire project with NETCF V1. It might be significantly faster and cheaper to upgrade your device to PPC 2003 or even scrap it and purchase new WM 5.0 device.
Diango
I was afraid someone would say that!
I will try re-doing it as a version 1 project.
thanks a lot.