I have an application (.exe) I have developed for the MC9090 and MC9190 to scan barcodes and update a sql-server database.
The application requires the following installed CAB files for the app. to work.
NETCFv35.Messages.EN.cab 402 KB
NETCFv35.wce.armv4.cab 9176 KB
sqlce.dev.ENU.wce5.armv4i.cab 44 KB
sqlce.wce5.armv4i.CAB 221 KB
I have tried to weeks to figure out HOW TO HAVE THESE AUTOMATICALLY persist AFTER COLD BOOT (HARD BOOT). Our MC9090 use Windows CE5. The MC9190's use windows CE6.
I just installed an SD card in them to provide more possibilities to examine as a possible solution?
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Russell,
You can also try CPY file and reg file creation.
The problem with Win CE during Cold boot is that it wipes the custom installed application. So the only way is to reinstall these after cold boot. You can try the following registry file ( modify the registry file to point to your required CAB files). Copy this Reg file to \Platform folder.
Also you need to create a .cpy file like the below mentioned and copy this .cpy file to \Application\Startup.
You can keep your cab files in either \Application directory or you can have them in SD card, but pl make correct entries in the .CPY files.
You can they cold boot the device and after cold boot all the cab files will install in silent mode
Here is the .Reg File,
Nabiraj,
On Windows based PC's ... you edit the registry using "RegEdit" in the command line. Is there a similar "Registry Editor" for the CE5 and CE6 os? or is it specific to "Symbol" ? Then is your recommendation indicating to 1) Edit the Registry and 2) also copy a Reg File to the \Platform folder? 3) create a .cpy file using any text editor like Notepad ... once you have the proper syntax figured out, then place the .cpy file in the \Application\Startup folder?
did you look into startupctl an supported tool which can make cab installations cold boot persistent.
look on support.symbol.com for the latest version
pretty good documented as well.
Did you get the .Net issue resolved? I'm dealing with it as well.