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Integration: The RFID Reader and the WWW Working Together in one Application on the PDA. February 28, 2007. .cab file. CAB is the Microsoft Windows native compressed archive format Supports Compression DEFLATE: invented by Phil Katz, the author of the ZIP file format.
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Integration: The RFID Reader and the WWW Working Together in one Application on the PDA February 28, 2007
.cab file • CAB is the Microsoft Windows native compressed archive format • Supports • Compression • DEFLATE: invented by Phil Katz, the author of the ZIP file format. • Quantum, licensed from David Stafford, the author of the Quantum archiver. • LZX, invented by Jonathan Forbes and Tomi Poutanen, given to Microsoft when Jonathan joined the company. • Digital Signing
Windows Mobile 2005 Security Model • Signatures: • “Microsoft’s interest is strictly to provide the most unified application security model possible so that a single signing process will allow you to deploy your application on the greatest possible number of Windows Mobile Devices.” • $431/year for the cheapest certificate from Verisign, and a minimum of $200 per logo certification test makes for a very expensive application.
CABWIZ • CABWiz is used to create .cab files for Pocket PC applications. • Syntax: cabwiz.exe "inf_file" • http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa459011.aspx
Visual Studio and WM 5.0 • http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsmobile/bb264341.aspx