Installing CAB-files does not help to solve the "error message cannot be displayed ... optional resource assembly ... cannot be found"

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So I have read a little on the problem with not getting decent error messages when running om Compact Framework (Windows Mobile) devices. I get the error:

An error message cannot be displayed because an optional resource assembly containing it cannot be found.

Several sites, and also answers here on stackoverflow, references this article: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/netcfteam/archive/2004/08/06/210232.aspx

In that article it says that:

If you are not using Visual Studio F5 deploy to the device and would still like to see the exception messages, you can achieve this by taking the System_SR_[Language].CAB where [Language] corresponds to the language in which you want to see the error message to appear and clicking on the cab file to install it.

I copied the System_SR_ENU.cab and System_SR_ENU_wm.cab from location:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SmartDevices\SDK\CompactFramework\2.0\v1.0\WindowsCE\Diagnostics

and installed the CAB-files (one at a time). That, however, does not work. At all.

I have copied and installed two such cab-files from my Visual Studio directory. The installtion goes well, no errors, but nonetheless I still have the same error.

I am running devices that has WM 5.0 up till WM 6.5 and the devices ranges from Dell Axim v51 to HTC HD2 (and some stuff in between).

Any bright ideas?

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1 Answers

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Is this a piece of software you have the source code for ? Have you tried extracting the cab and directly adding a reference to System.SR.dll directly within your project. This has worked for me in the past when I have come across the odd stubborn device that would not work from the cab file.

I have only ever done this in a development environment so if you need to ship the error messages then you may be back to square one.