The corruption only seemed to occur when downloading using the Microsoft Installer package. So I dissected the MSI log files and was able to determine some downloaded cabinets were in fact corrupted. This could indicate a network error, an error reading from the CD-ROM, or a problem with this package.'. The cabinet file 'MSI4E0.tmp' required for this installation is corrupt and cannot be used. When I tried to install the R2 update I got error messages like: This is especially handy if you need to install the R2 update on multiple machines.Īnother reason would be if you, like me, get errors during installation. Since the complete R2 update is over 1 GB of data it would be nice to be able to download the package to a folder from which you can install the R2 update offline. This means there is no way to download once - install often. in platform.The Microsoft installer for the CE 6.0 R2 update is a webinstaller. Registry settings on WinCE device is (i.e. If anyone has a clue or have faced similar issues please help me out. My initial suspect is that I may be missing outĪny essential catalog components /registry entries that may be causing this behavior. I presently don’t have a clue on the cause of this behavior. Is not dependent on the size but instead varies with the file type and content! Also the copy from the device to PC happens comparatively faster.

From these observations we see that the transfer time If we transfer 5.2 MB text(.txt) file from PC to target over active sync then the transfer takes ~43 seconds. Lot faster from PC to target than files of type.

a 0.98 MB file takes less than 10 seconds !)ī. Some more interesting observations made by me during transfer of files over active sync :Ī lot faster than the transfers from PC to target (i.e. Takes ~2 minute 35 seconds to transfer 0.98 MB. This works fine too.Ĥ) I have seen that when I copy files from PC to target using active sync it takes unexpectedly long time to transfer. I have also tried copying files to and from the target to my PC successfully.ģ) I have also tested deploying test applications from a Visual Studio 2005 based workspace to my target using active sync. In ActiveSync Settings on Desktop PC so that only copy happens to Target device):ġ) The Active sync icon gets activated and shows the message “connected”.Ģ) I am able to view and browse the file system on my WinCE target from PC using the Active Sync application. When I connect my target to PC with Active Sync 4.5 installed on it I have made the following observations ( Note: File Convertion feature is disabled I have chosen the USB serial client driver to interface to ActiveSync application. I have been trying to bringup Active Sync over USB on WinCE 6.0 based system.

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