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How to create the inf file for a smart device cab project from command line?

I am trying to get my continuous integration to create build the smart device cab project from within msbuild on the command line. Everything that I have found says to use the inf file (with cabwiz) created when you build the project from within…
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Where to find CabWiz.exe

I am resetting up my development machine and I cannot seem to remember where I got CabWiz.exe (used for creating installation cab files for windows mobile). Is that on MSDN Downloads in some package? Or somewhere else? Does anyone know? I…
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Creating Cab failed with VS2008 In windows 8.1

recently I'm upgrade to windows 8.1. after trying craete CAB install for one of my old project for windows mobile I get this error: Warning: Section [RegKeys] has no data Warning: Section [DefaultInstall] key "AddReg" - there are no section entries…
user495093
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Compressed CAB files cannot be installed by WCELOAD

I would like to manipulate one of our (unsigned) CAB files generated with CABWIZ by replacing a file in the cabinet. Currently I'm using Microsoft.Deployment.Compression.Cab.dll for this task (extract all files, replace the target, re-create the…
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WinCE CabWiz error: "inf contains DirIDs, which are not supported"

When building the windows mobile cab for our product, the windows CE CAB Wizard (CabWiz.exe) sometimes returns the error: Error: File c:\docume~1\build\locals~1\temp\wiz3340.inf contains DirIDs, which are not supported This error can occur…
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Windows CE CAB file creation does not like spaces in file path

We've just set up a new development server, and when building our existing mobile applications (Windows Mobile 6.5), I'm getting the following error: Windows CE CAB Wizard Warning: Section [RegKeys] has no data Warning: Section [DefaultInstall] key…
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Error installing cab file on Windows CE

I'm having trouble using macros in my .inf file that I'm using to create my cab, specifically when setting the InstallDir string. If I do something like this: InstallDir=\\MyAppName then everything works fine. However, if I do…
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Is it possible to make so that Windows Mobile would keep some files which were installed from a .cab file after unstallation?

I'm making .cab file for deploying my application on mobile devices (Windows Mobile 6.5). I create it "manually" with cabwiz.exe, because Visual Studio 2008 has problems with CAB projects (they are described quite well, localization files is one…
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Unable to build Windows CE Cab Project since Windows 10 1809

After upgrading to Windows 10 1809, I'm unable to build a Cab Project in Visual Studio 2008 Pro. The application we're packaging into a CAB file is for Windows CE 6.0, hence the ancient version of Visual Studio. I can see in the output window that…
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NAnt exec task with cabwiz.exe fails

I am using NAnt 0.90 on Windows 7 Professional. I am trying to build a CAB file using NAnt. NAnt is using an execute task to have CabWiz build the CAB file using an inf file. The build fails, but if I use CabWiz from the command line instead of…
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Launching cab file from Visual C++ dll

Does anybody know how to launch a cab file from a Visual C++ dll thats being used as a setup dll when installing an application on windows mobile. Basically, I need the dll to detect if compact framework is not installed and run required cab file if…
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Exclude setup.dll from Smart Cab Project in VS2008

I have added some custom actions to our installer which is run on CE5 and WM6. This installer works fine and builds fine. There is however one annoyance. The setup.dll is deployed to the device and this file is not necessary. I've read several…
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.cab file size grows rapidly when adding file

I have a deployment project, which creates a .cab file of my App for installing it on a Windows Mobile 6.5 PDA. Recently I made the app multillingual. Because of the CabWiz bug(concerning localization), I added my resource files manually via the…
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