CECImport Tool
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8/28/2008
The CECImport tool (CecImport.exe) is a command-line utility that you can use to upgrade previous versions of Platform Builder Catalog item (.cec) files to the file format required for Windows Embedded CE 6.0. The new file format, which uses the .pbcxml file extension to contain the metadata for Catalog items, is a result of the shift to base Catalog metadata on an XML schema.
The CECImport tool can be found in C:\Program Files\Windows CE Platform Builder\6.00\CEPB\IdeVS.
The following example shows the command-line syntax for the CECImport tool.
CecImport /target:<inputFile><pbcxml> /winceroot:<winceroot> /output:<outputFolder> /version:<winceVersion> /stringtable
Parameters
/target:
Required.If no
<inputFile>is specified, targets the Catalog file.If an input CEC file is specified, <pbcxml> is the default. This setting converts the file into .pbcxml Catalog format, which requires access to a Windows Embedded CE OS tree with an existing CE 6.0 Catalog.
/output:
Required.Specifies the output folder where the conversion should be placed.
<outputFolder>defaults to<winceroot>\public\common\oak\Catalog.
/version:
Required.Indicates the version of Windows Embedded CE in the given
<winceroot>.For example, "5.00".
/stringtable
Optional.If specified, indicates that the localizable text from the converted files should be extracted and written to a separate StringTable.
/locale:<lcid>
Optional.Overrides the default user locale when choosing a codepage for reading CEC files.
<lcid>should be a 4 digit hexadecimal locale identifier.
/overwrite
Optional.If specified, existing files will be overwritten.
/verbose
Optional.If specified, outputs additional messages for PbcXml and Catalog targets.