Monday, October 17, 2005
.NET Compact Framework Version 2 .CAB Files Explained
Posted by Kris Kumar in "DEVELOPER" @ 11:30 AM
https://blogs.msdn.com/netcfteam/archive/2005/10/11/479793.aspx
"Just like other Windows CE applications, .Net Compact Framework V2 (NETCF V2) is distributed as a set of CAB files. This article describes these CABs and discusses potential installation problems as well as ways to solve these problems. ... Each CAB file contains at least one native (CPU dependent) NETCF runtime, CPU independent managed libraries and setup DLL. In some cases CAB file contains more than one native runtimes, each optimized for particular CPU flavor. For example, NETCFv2.wce5.mipsii.cab contains two runtimes, one for MIPS II CPU and another one for MIPS II FP CPU (which has dedicated floating point unit). Correct runtime files are picked at installation time by setup DLL, unused files are discarded to save space."
Ilya Tumanov from the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework team has explained the .NET Compact Framework Version 2.0 distribution packages and the scenarios in which can be applied. I am sure the Smartphone developers know that the version 2.0 of the Compact Framework is not available on Windows Mobile 2003 for Smartphone. In case you didn't, the charts in this article make it clear. ;-)
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