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Device Driver Installation Procedure George 06-07-2005
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Posted by George on June 7, 2005, 8:21 pm
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Dear All,

Could anyone please tell me how to find information on installing a custom
device driver onto a SmartPhone? Also how about the installation procedure
for any custom developped application? Your help is greatly appreciated.

Best regards,
George




Posted by Ilya Tumanov [MS] on June 7, 2005, 12:13 pm
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First, build a properly signed CAB file which contains your properly signed
driver file.



Installation:



1. Add your driver to the registry (e.g. \HLKM\Drivers\BuiltIn).

2. Start your driver by calling ActivateDevice() from setup DLL -or- reboot
the device so driver would auto start.



Removal:



1. Get driver handle from \HLKM\Drivers\Active registry.

2. Stop your driver by calling DeactivateDevice() with handle from step 1.

2. Remove driver registry entry.

3. If step 2 failed, reboot the device (user will have to do uninstallation
again).



See this for setup DLL (and CAB) info:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wcepbguide5/html/wce51conOptionalSetupdllFilesForInstallation.asp





Best regards,



Ilya



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> Dear All,
>
> Could anyone please tell me how to find information on installing a custom
> device driver onto a SmartPhone? Also how about the installation procedure
> for any custom developped application? Your help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
> George
>
>




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