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cab is the file extension for the Cabinet archive format used in Microsoft Windows.

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Where can I get the cabarc utility?

I'm trying to compile a program which uses cabarc.exe, but I don't have cabarc.exe. The problem is that the Microsoft Cabinet SDK is no longer available so I can't get it from there either. Where can I get this file? P.S. I'm looking for a download…
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makecab - create a cab file from all the files in a folder

I have bunch of files in a directory. I tried following makecab but it does not include all the files in a folder into the cab file. makecab /d "C:\Users\crtorres\Documents\- SouthPacific Project 2014\- Projects\Sales Doc Center\New Region"…
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What is the difference between Media and MediaTemplate in WIX?

Is there are manual cabinet file's preparing VS automatic cabinet file's creation during building wix project? Or may be this is something else ?
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Deploy C# ActiveX in a CAB for Internet Explorer use

I am desperately trying to deploy an ActiveX for IE developed in C# as a CAB archive. I have read many resources (some of them from StackOverflow) and it appears a lot of people are having the same problems. I have tried 3 solutions: a) creating a…
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Deploy a Desktop Shortcut to a Device running Windows CE 4.2 (VS2005)

I have an application written using VS2005 in C# targeting the Compact Framework 2.0 SP2. As part of the solution, I have CAB deploy project which deploys to the device without a problem. What I can't do is create a shortcut to my application on the…
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How to create the inf file for a smart device cab project from command line?

I am trying to get my continuous integration to create build the smart device cab project from within msbuild on the command line. Everything that I have found says to use the inf file (with cabwiz) created when you build the project from within…
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RecyclerView: Highlight selected item

I have implemented a RecyclerView and I have set it up to use CAB. But how can I highlight the selected items? If a certain position I checked I stored in a SparseBooleanArray. My first thought was to store the specific View containg all the…
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How can I create an MSI from a CAB file?

I need to push out a Crystal Reports Active X Print Control to my users, as they do not have access to their own machines to install it themselves. Ideally I'd like to do this via an MSI that I can push out via group policy. Below is the .inf file…
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What's your opinion on MS CAB (Composite Application Block)?

I'm in the process of evaluating the use of CAB for a new .net 3.5 winform project I plan to use the Infragistics toolset, which is known to be 'CAB compliant' While CAB has the immediate upside of letting me focus on my business instead of coding…
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How to generate .cab File

I want to generate a .cab File How can I do it? I am developing in C# (visual studio 2008, .NET Framework 3.5) I can ganerate the .exe file, but how can I generate the .cab?
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Manually Installing ActiveX component

I'm trying to view a surveillance camera system. The remote access is available through a website, and that website seems to need to download a CAB file full of goodies to let me view the cameras. On some of my systems this install process goes…
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Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) vs. Composite UI Application Block (CAB)

We are currently looking at either using CAB or MEF for our next application. I didn't see any examples on codeplex of how event brokering is handled for sibling control communication, maybe I missed it. How does inter-control communication work…
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Is there a "ZIP project" in Visual Studio?

In Visual Studio there are several "Setup and Deployment" projects, one of these is "CAB Project". But I actually want a simple "ZIP Project" which enables me to add some folders + dll's from my solution and package this all in a zip file for easy…
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Comparison between CAB vs Prism

I have Winform that needs rewrite. I know we have Prism in WPF. For those who have been through both, what are the important differences between these two frameworks? I am a CAB programmer, so I already got used to CAB event wiring. Also, does Prism…
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Windows Mobile Compact Framework Build Error: CAB file … could not be created

I get the following error when trying to build a .CAB in visual studio on my new PC. The source is identical. The Registry warnings are not present on the old PC either. Windows CE CAB Wizard Warning: Section [RegKeys] has no data Warning:…
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