how to distribute a application?Any good tool?
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It's always a confusing problem to me:when i finish a application and want to distribute it,i must create a setup and make a package for it.But how can i know which components(like DLLs,.OCX,.tlb and so on) i need and which information i shall write into registry... In fact,i wrote a program in VB,then i use the tool "Package and Deployment" to create a package.But when i tried to setup it to test,it failed,noting me that the file "$(selfRegistryEx) " not found in my Temp folder.I dont know where's wrong :confused: Everyday will be holiday because of you
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It's always a confusing problem to me:when i finish a application and want to distribute it,i must create a setup and make a package for it.But how can i know which components(like DLLs,.OCX,.tlb and so on) i need and which information i shall write into registry... In fact,i wrote a program in VB,then i use the tool "Package and Deployment" to create a package.But when i tried to setup it to test,it failed,noting me that the file "$(selfRegistryEx) " not found in my Temp folder.I dont know where's wrong :confused: Everyday will be holiday because of you
The package and deployment wizard is a good tool, and its always detected all COM dependencies for me. You might want to try the Visual Studio Installer. It uses the newer Windows installer .msi format. (Requires InterDev) Note however I think that there's a problem with using vsi1.1 for VStudio 6 and having Visual Studio.NET installed on the same machine. But in that case I beleive you can use VS.NET deployment project to package your VB6 project.
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It's always a confusing problem to me:when i finish a application and want to distribute it,i must create a setup and make a package for it.But how can i know which components(like DLLs,.OCX,.tlb and so on) i need and which information i shall write into registry... In fact,i wrote a program in VB,then i use the tool "Package and Deployment" to create a package.But when i tried to setup it to test,it failed,noting me that the file "$(selfRegistryEx) " not found in my Temp folder.I dont know where's wrong :confused: Everyday will be holiday because of you
Although they cost money, installshield makes some pretty good products. You should check them out @ installshield.com. But like I said, they'll cost ya.
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It's always a confusing problem to me:when i finish a application and want to distribute it,i must create a setup and make a package for it.But how can i know which components(like DLLs,.OCX,.tlb and so on) i need and which information i shall write into registry... In fact,i wrote a program in VB,then i use the tool "Package and Deployment" to create a package.But when i tried to setup it to test,it failed,noting me that the file "$(selfRegistryEx) " not found in my Temp folder.I dont know where's wrong :confused: Everyday will be holiday because of you