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cab is the file extension for the Cabinet archive format used in Microsoft Windows.

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Why is IE deleting an ActiveX installer while it's installing?

I have an ActiveX control that is delivered as a CAB. I have an HTML page that is just an OBJECT tag with the cab name and clsid (so nothing else on the page yet). This causes IE to ask about installing the ActiveX control, which I allow. It…
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Sign a WIN CE .cab file as well as all the files inside

I have a cab file provided by a company and in order to secure my environment (terminal) I need to sign the cab as well as all the files inside (DLLs and EXEs) I want to avoid uncabing and recabing to do it. Is there any tool? I've seen signtool…
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Not a valid windows embedded compact setup file

I have developed an app for my handheld device. The handheld device is running Windows Embedded Compact 7 OS. I developed the app using VS 2008 professional C#. I chose the smart device project and target platform as Windows CE. I built the cab file…
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SCSF Calling services asynchronously

Are there any best practices for calling SCSF services asynchronously? Particularly I'm interesting in: Executions of requests in background Cancellation support Reporting progress Currently I came up with two scenarios: Listener Service which…
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.NET Compact Framework: CAB file configuration

I have a Windows Mobile application that I send to my client as a CAB file and then he installs it to 20 mobile devices. This application communicates with web service and has config.ini file in the Program Files/app_name/ folder to store the web…
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Keep files within a folder at cab app uninstall

I would like some files within a folder not to be deleted when a cab application is uninstalled on a handheld device. I read that this is possible if you create a custom setup dll. I could create a project in VS, but i don't know what C++ code…
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Issue with ressources files in CF

I've done a compact framework app with sevral ressource files for globalization, and packagd everything into a CAB file. My problem is that some of this ressources files seem to be unreadable (changing culture goes to default culture). All this…
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CF - Application installation CAB (including .net cf ...)

Can some1 please explain how can i include this installations in my CAB file. NETCFv35.wm.armv4i.cab NETCFv35.Messages.EN.wm.cab Also on some devices the user has to confirm several DLLs that i would like to awoid. Im told that i should use ILMerge,…
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Makecab white spaces

I need to create cab file for nested folder . so I sreate ddf file that looks : .OPTION EXPLICIT ; Will Generate errors for mistakes .Set Compress=on .Set Cabinet=on ; Destination Folder .Set DiskDirectory1= my Directory ; File name for the…
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CF - CAB deployment

I have followed this example http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa446504 and it works fine. The cab is created and i can copy it on the device and install the app. What im missing is that on device the application is not present in Programs…
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How do I create scoped events?

I am about to migrate a cab application created with smart client software factory from in 2009. Everything seemed to be straight until the event aggregator. I need to have code like this: //publish in current unity…
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Android ListItem selector doesn't work with MultiChoiceModeListener

I have implemented CAB and MultiChoiceModeListener on ListView and everything works perfect except changing background color of the list item when selected (multi selection). Here is my code: listView.xml:
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How to check if CAB file is downloaded by a user in Internet Explorer

I have a page that hosts CAB file like the one below When this page is browsed the first time, there is a message to…
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Extract CAB file from an MSI to create a smaller MSI?

I'm looking at removing the CAB file from a large MSI file, so that I am left with two files: A small MSI File and a large CAB File. I've been using msidb to extract the CAB but I hit a brick wall here and cannot figure out how to reduce the size of…
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unable to run activeX control in IE

Im trying to embed some application in IE by creating activeX control. I've got xyz.dll. Normally if I register this dll through command prompt(batch file), the embedding is successful. But if i use the cab file methodolgy, only the first snapshot…
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