My Windows CE cab installer is installing to host c: drive rather than the device

Question

I have a Win CE application for hand scanners, and I have made an automated installer for it so that users will be able to run a program from their PC to automatically install it to their devices without having to use wither ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center. I have put together a document of instructions (which I will try to attach to a comment) and followed them carefully - but when I run the resulting setup program, it only installs on my c: drive, and doesn't do anything at all to the scanner. Please advise. My PC has Windows 7, Windows Mobile Device Center, and the scanner is running Windows CE 5.00.

Answer 1

The problem was that the CAB .inf file and the custom installer ini files, both text files, were written using the Visual Studio 2008 text editor - and neither had ANSI encoding.

An approach I found to be very helpful was to work out how to install manually from the command prompt so that I could find out what my project was supposed to be doing. For example:

C:\Windows\WindowsMobile\CEAppMgr.exe c:\Progra~2\Microsoft\CEScanAppSetup\CustomInstaller.ini