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I’m doing a lot of mobile development at work now using .Net C# and Symbol hardware. I am shipping a program this week to the field and I needed to get my development environment into “release” mode and then package up the application so non-developers can install it.

I found this page really helped me get started with *.cab files http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/ppc-install.html

Even though I only have two devices they have different processors which are both ARM based. The older one uses ARM and PocketPC 2003, while the newer device uses Windows Mobile 5 on an ARMi chip. This blog entry explains how the compact framework handles their cab files.

So using that link I was able to create a cab file to deploy to either device using the same executable. Be sure to use the ezsetup.exe binary to create a windows executable for non-developers to simply double click install.
Trying to explain how to start a command shell can be hard enough, never mind trying to list off the full path to the users CEAPPMGR.EXE file and then trying to distribute an INI file to run the install process to the device.

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