Card Autorun

Windows Mobile 6.5
Windows Mobile SupportedWindows Embedded CE Not Supported
8/28/2008

This code sample is named autorun. It demonstrates how to handle autorun notifications when a storage card is either inserted or removed from the mobile device.

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Relevant APIs

The autorun.exe utility that ships with the Windows Mobile SDK

  1. Navigate to the solution file (*.sln), and double-click it. By default, the solution file is copied to the following folder:

    C:\Program Files\Windows Mobile 6 SDK\Samples\Common\CPP\Win32\autorun

    Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 launches and loads the solution.

  2. Build the solution (Ctrl+Shift+B).

  3. Deploy the solution (F5).

  1. The executable must be named "autorun.exe", and you must place it in a processor specific directory (2577) on the storage card.

  2. When the storage card is inserted, the application will be launched with "install" as its command-line parameter.

  3. When the storage card is removed, the application will be launched with "uninstall" as its command-line parameter.

SDK: Windows Mobile 6 Professional SDK and Windows Mobile 6 Standard SDK

Development Environment: Visual Studio 2005.

ActiveSync: Version 4.5.

You must have a storage card to run this code sample.

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