Hello,
I've got application for Windows Mobile/CE. Can I create installer with Final Builder which will deploy my application through ActiveSync. In Final Builder feature matrix I can't see support for deploying mobile applications.
Regards,
Michael
Hi Michal,
I’ve got little experience with creating installers for mobile applications, but I’ve found this article on MSDN which may help:
URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb158529.aspx
Regards,
Paul.
Thanks for your answer Paul,
So the only thing I have to do is develop a plugin and add it to final builder project. Am I right?
The next thing is IIS configuration, which I believe can also be done with plugins developed in .NET (in FB feature matrix I can see there is only basic support for IIS).
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
In my company we're planning to buy Final Builder 6 Standard. The most important things for my department are possibility to deploy mobile app, web service installation and web.config configuration. If all that things can done with final builder I'll be very satisfied :)
Regards,
Michael
Hi Michal,
> So the only thing I have to do is develop a plugin and add it to final builder project. Am I right?
Yep, if you want to create an installer then you can follow the information in the article and use FinalBuilder to compile the code (using the MSBuild or VS.NET action).
> The next thing is IIS configuration, which I believe can also be done with plugins developed
> in .NET (in FB feature matrix I can see there is only basic support for IIS).
What sort of things did you want to configure in IIS? In any case if we don't have an specific action to achieve what you need you resort back to using script or an external tool.
> The most important things for my department are possibility to deploy mobile app, web service installation and web.config configuration
It should be relatively straight forward to use the XML actions to update the web.config, let us know if you need any help with it.
Regards,
Paul.
Posted By Paul Samways on 27 Nov 2008 4:20 PM
Hi Michal,
What sort of things did you want to configure in IIS? In any case if we don't have an specific action to achieve what you need you
resort back to using script or an external tool.
* Create web site if doesn't exist
* Create some virtual directories with web services (also only if doesn't exist)
* Create application pool
* specify permissions for virtual directory,
* very important - uninstall web site if needed (even if user changed configuration, ie. ip address, port or host header)
Previously our installer was made in WIX and that things was not so simple to implement :)
> The most important things for my department are possibility to deploy mobile app, web service installation and web.config configuration
It should be relatively straight forward to use the XML actions to update the web.config, let us know if you need any help with it.
OK that's straight.
Regards,
Michael