Re: From VC6 to .NET 2 questions

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> OK, if you want to be "in control" of your application, it means that you
> are going to
> write your own installer. This is because Microsoft rather carefully
> specifies what DLLs
> and what version of DLLs must be installed on your target machine to make
> it work. Feel
> free, but doesn't it seem like a colossal waste of time to re-invent
> something that
> professionals who do nothing all day but worry about the right way to do
> something have
> already created solutions that work?

....
> An installer IS JUST ANOTHER TOOL and is as essential to delivering a
> reliable and robust

....
> By the way, I've written installers. That's one reason I wouldn't touch
> the problem
> today. And I would certainly not feel I was "losing control" by using any
> of the
> commercially-available installers.

....
> I don't use installers because my clients already have an
> installer-of-choice, often with
> customizations to their corporate look-and-feel of installations, and
> often a full-time
> person who deals with deployment packaging across their entire product
> line. But not one
> of them would dream of giving a .exe file and saying "copy this to your
> disk and you're up
> and running".

I give up, what installer are you trying to sell me?

Where did i say "I want to copy this to my disk and be up and running"?

Simon


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