Since CF2 is not reliably backward-compatible with CF1, I've had to build a 
separate version of our CF1 application to target CF2.

I see that I can use CabWiz to build multiple CAB files that target 
particular CE OS versions, list them all in an ini file, then pass that ini 
file to CEAppMgr and let it select the right one.

I don't see any way to have multiple CAB files targeting different CF 
versions. Am I missing something?

How do others handle this scenario?

--
David

The CAB installer itself doesn't know, natively, anything about .NET CF, so 
you can't build a CAB that in itself knows what to do.  I can think of 
several ways to do this, but none of them are easier than having some sort 
of a program to run on the target device and tell the user which of your 
actual application CAB files to use by checking the target device for which 
..NET CF version is actually installed.  That is, you could write a small 
..NET CF program that would run on either version, check what is actually 
running it, and either tell the customer "Download and run this CAB file", 
or even have a link to the right one to download that he could click and 
launch the browser, or you could copy both CAB files for your final program 
to the target device and this setup program could launch the right CAB to be 
installed, depending on what it found.  Since this little setup program 
would be written in managed code, it wouldn't care which processor was on 
the target device, so it's almost as good as a CAB that actually does the 
right thing...

Paul T.

"David" <guiness@nospam.nospam> wrote in message 
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> Since CF2 is not reliably backward-compatible with CF1, I've had to build 
> a
> separate version of our CF1 application to target CF2.
>
> I see that I can use CabWiz to build multiple CAB files that target
> particular CE OS versions, list them all in an ini file, then pass that 
> ini
> file to CEAppMgr and let it select the right one.
>
> I don't see any way to have multiple CAB files targeting different CF
> versions. Am I missing something?
>
> How do others handle this scenario?
>
> --
> David
>