Operating system specific deployment

[evan]

Hi anyone,

I have to distribute a VB.NET project that requires the installation of
Jet 4.0. As the installation files of Jet are operating system
specific, during deployment I need to run the file that is specific to
the system it is being installed on (see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/239114/).

How would I do this?

I will have to "Search Target Machine" for the operating system and
create a launch condition for the result, but how do I search for the
OS? A suggestion for the RegKey, Root and Value properties would be
really helpful.

Also, how do I do a search for the existence of Jet 4.0 on the Target
machine?

thanks,
/evan

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

RE: Operating system specific deployment

Hi,

Here is an article on how to create the launch condition.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/vxtskAddingLaunchConditionForMicrosoftDataAccessComponents.asp

I would include the mdac merge module to install the latest version of jet

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320788

Ken
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"evan" wrote:
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> Hi anyone,
>
> I have to distribute a VB.NET project that requires the installation of
> Jet 4.0. As the installation files of Jet are operating system
> specific, during deployment I need to run the file that is specific to
> the system it is being installed on (see
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/239114/).
>
> How would I do this?
>
> I will have to "Search Target Machine" for the operating system and
> create a launch condition for the result, but how do I search for the
> OS? A suggestion for the RegKey, Root and Value properties would be
> really helpful.
>
> Also, how do I do a search for the existence of Jet 4.0 on the Target
> machine?
>
> thanks,
> /evan
>
>[/color]