Deployment of application.

Environment: VS.Net 2003 Enterprise. Latest emulator, sdk for Win Mobile 2003
SE installed. HP iPaq 4700 (same OS).

Program: a dead simple Hello World. I can run it on the 2003 emulator. 100%
but what could go wrong anyway?

Problem: How do I deploy this onto my iPaq?

Observation: I've tried looking for a simple hands-on tutorial walkthrough
that will tell me exactly, not approximately, what I need to do to install
this humble program on my device. I can dind any number of complex
explanations. But I don't want complexity at this point. All I want to do is
to get a handle on the concepts, the complex can wait until later. Is there a
walkthrough that someone knows about that will show me what it is I need to
do to get this simple program deployed on my device. I can seemingly produce
the .cab files easily enough, but getting it/them into a .msi file and
setting up the extraordinarily complicated configuration file is not
something I want to spend too much time on - initially. Advice appreciated.

r_z_aret
Wed Oct 20 15:51:51 CDT 2004

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:43:03 -0700, PHS
<PHS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Environment: VS.Net 2003 Enterprise. Latest emulator, sdk for Win Mobile 2003
>SE installed. HP iPaq 4700 (same OS).
>
>Program: a dead simple Hello World. I can run it on the 2003 emulator. 100%
>but what could go wrong anyway?
>
>Problem: How do I deploy this onto my iPaq?
>
>Observation: I've tried looking for a simple hands-on tutorial walkthrough
>that will tell me exactly, not approximately, what I need to do to install
>this humble program on my device. I can dind any number of complex
>explanations. But I don't want complexity at this point. All I want to do is
>to get a handle on the concepts, the complex can wait until later. Is there a
>walkthrough that someone knows about that will show me what it is I need to
>do to get this simple program deployed on my device. I can seemingly produce
>the .cab files easily enough, but getting it/them into a .msi file and
>setting up the extraordinarily complicated configuration file is not
>something I want to spend too much time on - initially. Advice appreciated.

I sympathize, but probably don't have any sufficiently simple
solutions. The best I can do is:
1) Let the IDE copy its output and dependencies
2) Manually copy the executable(s) to a convenient location in the
Start menu
3) Manually copy the executables to a tidy folder, create a shortcut
(right click in ActiveSync explorer), and move that to a convenient
part of the start menu
4)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnce30/html/appinstall30.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/understanding/articles/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/netcfdeployment.asp
http://www.pocketpcdn.com/sections/installation.html

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