Deployment Method

[Martin]

I am currently using VB6 Package and Deployment Wizard to create my
setup.exe's but this sometimes fails on some users windows platforms.

My question is do developers use a more up to date installation application
to create setup.exe's for VB6 apps? If so what package/deployment
applications are preferred?

Martin

[Auric__]

Re: Deployment Method

"Martin" <cadoss@btconne ct.com> wrote in
news:cq77ko$j2u $1@sparta.btint ernet.com:
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> I am currently using VB6 Package and Deployment Wizard to create
> my setup.exe's but this sometimes fails on some users windows
> platforms.
>
> My question is do developers use a more up to date installation
> application to create setup.exe's for VB6 apps? If so what
> package/deployment applications are preferred?
>
> Martin[/color]

I personally never provide a setup package, and indeed, go out of my way
to ensure that my programs don't need one. The closest I get to one is
sometimes providing a self-extracting archive instead of just a zip
file.

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[Martin]

Re: Deployment Method

Sounds like a good idea, but how would I get the VB run time files installed
on a users machine without a setup utility?


Regards

Martin

"Auric__" <not.my.real@em ail.address> wrote in message
news:1103637777 .e1ca44e0667708 b7178259c7544be 741@teranews...[color=blue]
> "Martin" <cadoss@btconne ct.com> wrote in
> news:cq77ko$j2u $1@sparta.btint ernet.com:
>[color=green]
> > I am currently using VB6 Package and Deployment Wizard to create
> > my setup.exe's but this sometimes fails on some users windows
> > platforms.
> >
> > My question is do developers use a more up to date installation
> > application to create setup.exe's for VB6 apps? If so what
> > package/deployment applications are preferred?
> >
> > Martin[/color]
>
> I personally never provide a setup package, and indeed, go out of my way
> to ensure that my programs don't need one. The closest I get to one is
> sometimes providing a self-extracting archive instead of just a zip
> file.
>
> --
> auric underscore underscore at hotmail dot com
> *****
> Now I just need to regen my sigmonster again...[/color]

[Auric__]

Re: Deployment Method

> "Auric__" <not.my.real@em ail.address> wrote in message[color=blue]
> news:1103637777 .e1ca44e0667708 b7178259c7544be 741@teranews...[color=green]
>>
>> I personally never provide a setup package, and indeed, go out of
>> my way to ensure that my programs don't need one. The closest I
>> get to one is sometimes providing a self-extracting archive
>> instead of just a zip file.[/color][/color]

"Martin" <cadoss@btconne ct.com> wrote in
news:cq9k79$gcl $1@titan.btinte rnet.com:
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> Sounds like a good idea, but how would I get the VB run time files
> installed on a users machine without a setup utility?
>
>
> Regards
>
> Martin[/color]

I leave it up to the user. I provide a little note, typically in a
readme.txt file *and* on the web page they download from (if indeed
they get it from my web page), that specifies what they need. I also
might point to where they can download the runtimes from another web
site. (In one special case, the user needs to have fm20.dll installed,
and I tell them to either have Office 97 or later installed, or where
to get it from MS, but that particular dll can't be redistributed.)

The only exception to that is any dlls I have written myself, which I
would include in the same archive as the program itself.

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[Raoul Watson]

Re: Deployment Method


"Martin" <cadoss@btconne ct.com> wrote in message
news:cq77ko$j2u $1@sparta.btint ernet.com...[color=blue]
> I am currently using VB6 Package and Deployment Wizard to create my
> setup.exe's but this sometimes fails on some users windows platforms.
>
> My question is do developers use a more up to date installation[/color]
application[color=blue]
> to create setup.exe's for VB6 apps? If so what package/deployment
> applications are preferred?
>
> Martin
>[/color]
I use InstallShield Express (the older version). Am very happy with it, the
price, reasonable.

[Erik De Keyser]

Re: Deployment Method

"Auric__" <not.my.real@em ail.address> wrote in message
news:1103662439 .69dbeefa91452f a2ead0e632cd944 64b@teranews...[color=blue][color=green]
> > "Auric__" <not.my.real@em ail.address> wrote in message
> > news:1103637777 .e1ca44e0667708 b7178259c7544be 741@teranews...[color=darkred]
> >>
> >> I personally never provide a setup package, and indeed, go out of
> >> my way to ensure that my programs don't need one. The closest I
> >> get to one is sometimes providing a self-extracting archive
> >> instead of just a zip file.[/color][/color]
>
> "Martin" <cadoss@btconne ct.com> wrote in
> news:cq9k79$gcl $1@titan.btinte rnet.com:
>[color=green]
> > Sounds like a good idea, but how would I get the VB run time files
> > installed on a users machine without a setup utility?
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Martin[/color]
>
> I leave it up to the user. I provide a little note, typically in a
> readme.txt file *and* on the web page they download from (if indeed
> they get it from my web page), that specifies what they need. I also
> might point to where they can download the runtimes from another web
> site. (In one special case, the user needs to have fm20.dll installed,
> and I tell them to either have Office 97 or later installed, or where
> to get it from MS, but that particular dll can't be redistributed.)
>
> The only exception to that is any dlls I have written myself, which I
> would include in the same archive as the program itself.
>
> --
> auric underscore underscore at hotmail dot com
> *****
> Now I just need to regen my sigmonster again...[/color]


Results that your programs are not keyed in the system registry...
How to remove them properly / how to be sure to safely delete a component that
is unused ?

Rgds
Erik

[Auric__]

Re: Deployment Method

"Erik De Keyser" <erik_de_keyser @mickeysnotmail .com> wrote in
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> "Auric__" <not.my.real@em ail.address> wrote in message
> news:1103662439 .69dbeefa91452f a2ead0e632cd944 64b@teranews...[color=green]
>>
>> I leave it up to the user. I provide a little note, typically in a
>> readme.txt file *and* on the web page they download from (if
>> indeed they get it from my web page), that specifies what they
>> need. I also might point to where they can download the runtimes
>> from another web site. (In one special case, the user needs to
>> have fm20.dll installed, and I tell them to either have Office 97
>> or later installed, or where to get it from MS, but that
>> particular dll can't be redistributed.)
>>
>> The only exception to that is any dlls I have written myself,
>> which I would include in the same archive as the program itself.[/color]
>
>
> Results that your programs are not keyed in the system registry...
> How to remove them properly / how to be sure to safely delete a
> component that is unused ?
>
> Rgds
> Erik[/color]

The only components I use (with the exception of the previously-
mentioned fm20.dll) are the runtimes, comctl32.dll, and comdlg32.dll;
I *never* uninstall them (and of course, I never install them in the
first place). If I want some added functionality, I either stick to
whatever comes with Windows, or I write it myself.

As for uninstalling, the readme.txt has a section called
"uninstalli ng":
To uninstall [app], simply delete the folder and all files and
subfolders while the program is not running.

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