CE Deleting .cab Installations?

[EnduranceMan]

Hi all

I have been working on an application for Windows CE 6.0 for a few months now, it is written in C' using the .netCF framework.

When I switch the unit on each day .cab files, SQLCE cabs to be exact, which I have installed the previous day are no longer seen by my application, when I try execute the SQL code it says missing dll.

If I then run the cab installs again CE says they already exist, but I install them anyway and my application then see's them.

Why might this be happening? It's not an issue now, I just have to re-install the cabs each time I restart the machine but it will when this goes live.

Any help appreciated
Regards
Endo

 

[TouchToneTommy]

Can you make the cab's "read only"?

Instead of using Active Synch to install programs on my CE machine, I like to extract the cab, set it to Read Only, copy it to an SD card, and run the cab from there. This way it won't auto-delete when the installation is done.

 

[EnduranceMan]

Thanks for the reply Tommy. I will try your method of installing the cabs and let you know if it works.

Regards

 

[TouchToneTommy]

http://s-k-tools.com/index.html?m_util.html

Go here, and scroll down to "CabInstl". This is a small program that can install cabs to directories other than the default.