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Originally Posted by Spatulator
Pphilip,
In an earlier post you mentioned that there was a trick or something to getting older apps to work on winCE. What was it?
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There is a procedure that seems to work about 30 to 40% of the time. On a Windows computer, download an app called "MSCEInf Wince CAbs Analyzer". This allows you to open cab files and view their internal structure. View the cab's .exe file and search for all the .dll helpers it requires to run. If you don't already have those .dll files, go to one of the websites where they can be downloaded (
http://www.dll-download.net).
I then create a folder where I pull all the cab's components and add all the .dll files which it searches for. Normally an application will look in the system (windows) folder for dlls, but if they're in the same folder as the app, it has no problem finding them.
This procedure seems to work best for older apps (2000 to 2007) but occasionally also work on the newer 'windows mobile' ones as well. Just remember, it takes a little time to compile the components, and might not work after putting forth the effort. Someone with more knowledge than myself could probably locate and modify the app's code so they could run correctly.