How to Auto-Update Windows Mobile application

Question

I have a .net cf 3.5 Windows Mobile application that my client wants to have autoupdate features.

Here is what I have so far:

1. create a CAB using the Sm

Answer 1

A team I was on implemented this by creating a second mobile app (outside of the application that is being updated) on the mobile devices that was responsible for downloading and running CABs.

• On every dock, the primary app determined if it needed to be updated via a web service call.
• If its version was out of date, it would invoke the updater app with the URI of the new version to install and then exit
• The updater app would download the new CAB and execute the installs/reboots and registry modifications as appropriate.

This worked for us pretty well.