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Mobile Devices Page Compared to Mobile Device Package Editor
Mobile Devices Page Compared to Mobile Device
Package Editor
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Professional and Enterprise Editions only.
Wise for Windows Installer has the following 2 features for installing your application to
mobile devices:
Mobile Devices Page
Use this page in Installation Expert to add mobile device support to an .MSI-based
installation. Using the Mobile Devices page, you can:
! Add support for multiple mobile device platforms and processors. Each time you
compile the .MSI, the necessary .CABs are recompiled and wrapped inside the .MSI.
When the .MSI runs on a desktop computer that has an attached mobile device, the
appropriate .CAB is extracted from the .MSI and installed onto the mobile device.
! Create a single .MSI installation that installs to the desktop computer and the mobile
device.
! Close the installation, re-open the installation, and continue editing mobile device
support from where you left off.
See About the Mobile Devices Page on page 236.
Mobile Device Package Editor Tool
Use this tool, available from the Tools menu, to quickly create a simple .CAB file or to
edit the resources of an existing .CAB file. (In Visual Studio: available from the Projects
menu.) This tool has the following limitations:
! You cannot close the .CAB, re-open the .CAB and continue editing where you left off.
When you create a new .CAB, you can compile the .CAB, but you cannot save the
settings that were used to create the .CAB.
! Once you exit the tool, you can re-open the .CAB, but you cannot edit the platform or
processor information for the .CAB or for any individual resource within the .CAB.
See About Mobile Device Package Editor on page 237.