Re: redistributing vcredist in a CAB file (CAB / inf woes)

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Hi,

Couple of questions that may help move this forward, see in-line.

I've written an ActiveX control for web deployment. I now want to
package it into a CAB file so it's available to IE6+ browser users.

OK.

Unfortunately, I need the visual studio runtime libraries installed on
the client machine

This sounds a bit worrying. Can you give more details and can you explain how other ActiveX control writers manage without them?

All of the above is my interpretation of the msdn article:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/components/activex/packaging.asp

OK, but as I understand it, this article is only helping with the ActiveX part, not the redist part?

Surely redistributing the visual studio runtime redist should be
relatively easy!

Yes, it looks like it's quite easy to do this with a normal setup/install program, but I don't know if it's possible as part of an ActiveX install?

You are saying you want to install the ActiveX via the browser and world wide web (?), but what if the end user does not have Admin rights (which I certainly hope they don't!)

If this is for a corporation it's different, you could blast out the control and redist to all machines overnight.

I don't see much future in trying to use ActiveX via internet browsers, the strategy was flawed from the beginning and turned into a security nightmare. The "new" way of doing this (if you believe the hype) is where everyone has .NET on their machines (of course they'll all be mismatched versions!) and then you use something like ClickOnce to run client apps in the user context.

I prefer the simple life; I need my apps to run on any computer (even Linux/Mac) from anywhere in the world, regardless of which versions of which DLL they do (or don't) have, and thats why I do everything using standards compliant web applications.

--
Gerry Hickman (London UK)
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