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February 03, 2004
Creating cab files is to hard
I just had to update the cab files for a .NET compact framework project. This process is really more difficult than it needs to be. It isn't that it is that complicated but it just doesn't "fit" with how the rest of Visual Studio works. It is one of those things that I do fairly frequently but not enough that it becomes second nature. I do like the fact that with the inf file and cabwiz.exe I have a lot of control, so I hope they don't take that power away if Microsoft does fix this in Whidbey and makes things simpler. Things I don't like:
No way from within VS to specify any parameters
Having to manually edit the inf file everytime I hit the Build Cab button
Company is always "My Company" (who would ever want this, wouldn't leaving it blank or something make more sense?)
The inf file contains absolute and not relative paths (I often want to rebuild the cabs on different boxes)
I usually teach the lecture on deployment for CPT 355, so I figured it all out for that. If I just wanted to quickly deploy my app with some simple configuration there's no way I'd want to have to go through all this hassle to figure everything out.
Posted by mikel at February 3, 2004 11:55 AM
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