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Make a desktop installer that only installs its contense to a Windows CE device. You can add what ever you like to the rest of the program but these are the only steps you need to pass the CAB to ActiveSync and let it do the rest. Obviously fill in where it makes sense.

This is just a place to hold your files, it can be anything but your program name works best as the folder shouldn't already exist

InstallDir "$TEMP\YourProgram'sName"

Var to hold the location of CeAppMgr.exe

var CeAppMgrLocation

Section PathObtain

 ;It can be obtained from the registry at this location always
 ReadRegStr $CeAppMgrLocation HKLM "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\CEAPPMGR.EXE" ""

SectionEnd

Section CEInstallAndDelete

 ;This calls the program and passes to it the program's ini file which tells it which CAB file(s) it needs and sets it up to install
 ExecWait '"$CeAppMgrLocation" "$INSTDIR\YourProgram'sINIfile.ini"' $0
 ;Changes the output path so the temporary folder can be deleted
 SetOutPath $TEMP
 ;Remove the directory and all the files put into it
 RMDir /r /REBOOTOK $INSTDIR

SectionEnd

Thats all you need for it to be a very clean install process.

• • • IMPORTANT You absolutely must have a CAB file and INI file which for example would look like

DO NOT EDIT CEAppManager Version

[CEAppManager] Version = 1.0 Component = YourProgram'sName

[YourProgram'sName] Description = YourProgram'sName CabFiles = YourProgram'sCABFile(s).CAB

The only two things in my install are a CAB file that is referenced in the ini file I pass to CeAppMgr