HOWTO: Install ADOCE When Windows CE Services is Not Present

ID: Q242499

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 6.0, version 1.0

SUMMARY

If you attempt to install the Microsoft ADO for Windows CE SDK (ADOCE) onto a machine where Windows CE Services has not been installed, you receive the following error message:

Setup could not find Windows CE Services 2.0 installed on your system. Please install Windows CE Services before installing this application.

This occurs even if ActiveSync 3.0, the upgrade to Windows CE Service 2.x, has been previously installed.

MORE INFORMATION

You can override this behavior as long as ActiveSync 3.0 is installed. To work around this problem, open the ADOCE.STF file using Notepad.exe or a similar text-only editor, and change the following line:

2 Windows CE Services 2.0 CustomAction "adosetup.dll,
AddAppSrch,""Required,C:\,ceappmgr.exe,2.0,3 4"""

to:

2 Windows CE Services 2.0 CustomAction "adosetup.dll, AddAppSrch,""Required,C:\,ceappmgr.exe,3.0,3 4"""

REFERENCES

For additional information, please click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q192531 INFO: Overview of ADO for Windows CE SDK (ADOCE)

Q238947 FILE: Msadoce2.exe Installs ADO for Windows CE SDK

Q241402 HOWTO: Get ADOCE Running on a Palm-size PC Device

Additional query words: vbce vbce6 wce adoce

Keywords : kbADO kbToolkit kbVBp600 kbWinCE kbGrpVB
Version : WINDOWS:1.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto