Installing a full compact application

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I've been developing for pocket PC for a few months now, and while i've got
over a lot of issues with the application and i've learned a heck of a lot,
i'm still having issues with an actual user-friendly installation for the
application.

I need four cabs to be installed:

1) SQLCE
2) OPENNET
3) My App
4) .NET Service Pack

NSIS asks individually to install the files so the user has to click 'Yes'
to each prompt on their PC. If the files are already installed it asks the
user to re-install..

What i would ideally like (and i'm sure it's possible as i've seen other
apps do it)...

1) A friendly user-interface
2) Install all the cabs in one go with no user intervention
3) Don't ask the user to re-install if it already exists, just do it.

If there are third party tools which cost money, so be it..

Does visual studio support this functionality? I did try it but it was
unreliable last time i tried.

Any ideas out there?

Many Thanks
Rob
 
Search for something like "installing multiple CABs ..." It's out there, I
just read it yesterday. The bottom line is that only one copy of wceload can
run at a time, so you have to workaround with an executable in the
CAB that is fired by a custom setup.dll.
 
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