Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Installing CAB files from desktop .NET

Data Port Console is now on Draft 15 and I decided to move ahead and promote it to Beta. There are still lots of features that I will add in the future (both during Beta and after the product goes "gold"), but there was one on the top of my list that had to be done right away: installing the device server from within the application. This is actually quite necessary for Windows Mobile 5 devices (both Pocket PC and Smartphone) because the installer CAB not only deploys the required DLL but also enables RAPI connectivity.

The code I wrote for the installer is quite simple and I decided to write a short article on this. You can read it here.

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