Re: Wish I was using .net

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Most recently, I completed an app and tried to create an
installation
package for it. I couldn't get the install to work on a virgin
machine.
As usual, MS resources were no help. I asked on here and was told
to use VSI instead of P&D, so I downloaded it, installed it, ran it,
couldn't figure it out, clicked on Help, and the "MSDN Library
Visual
Studio" help file came up -- not the VSI help file. It was of no
help.
After about a week, I stumbled across the VSI help file in the Start
menu. I assumed it was the same Help that came up in the program,
but clicked on it anyway, just to be thorough, and it was the VSI
Help!!
Why on earth would they put it there, but not show it when Help is
clicked in VSI? Anyway, I still cannot get a simple VB app
packaged so that it will run when installed on a new machine, and
even the usually stellar gurus on here can't explain why.

Veering a little OT here, but have you tried Inno Setup?

I downloaded it, looked at it, didn't use it.
Also Nullsoft Install System.

I just want the simplest of packages to install
a simple app on a machine. This used to be
a no-brainer. Don't know why it has to be
so complicated now.

I found Inno to be rather easy to use. It comes with a bunch of sample
scripts and, IIRC, has a wizard. And its help's rather good too. For a
simple setup that doesn't need any fancy functionality, the learning
curve
ain't bad (not much of one at all). Much of my stuff needs to do some
funky
things with their setups so they did take some time at first (as
expected),
but for a typical basic setup it's probably just a matter of minutes.

Thanks for the tip. I'll give it another look.

I think that one of my concerns was whether
it would figure all the dependencies or I would
have to manually do that myself. Do you know?


I honestly couldn't say for sure as I haven't had to build a new installer
in several months, and when I do I usually just take one of the base scripts
from another project and modify it accordingly. And aside from the
occasional RichTextBox and such, my stuff rarely uses things like OCXes (for
much of the "fancy stuff" I tend to make my own UserControls) so my setups
usually only need the typical VB5 or VB6 dependencies. That said, I've
always been one to use Dependency Walker just for my own piece of mind.



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