Hi Paul,

Thanks for all the advice. I decided to move the statements out of the vbs file and into the batch file that called the installer. At least that way, I can control the result of xcopy in case there are errors, and also I found out that I should use rmdir instead of del since rmdir already covers deleting files and folder while for del, only the files are deleted.

Hi Paul,

I'm sorry, I'm just a beginner in vbs and the only reason I chose to use vbs was that its one of the allowable types when adding a program in custom action. I would have preferred using .bat. Regarding the code posted above, actually I just copied it from some existing script and modified it. The problem isn't actually osShell since before the delete statement I used osShell.Run to execute the xcopy function. I had some readonly...

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately we are not allowed to use third party applications to build our installer. However, I was able to come up with a workaround.

The first time installer, I set permanent to true for all files.

For the upgrade installer, I modified the directory of the files to be updated. Instead of putting it in the application directory, I put it in a temporary folder....

Hi,

I'm currently developing an application for a POS Terminal using VB.net. Our project is approaching the last stage of development and I've been tasked to create 2 installers. 1 for Initial Installation, and the other for upgrade installation.

The project is composed of several elements. These are:
1. The application executable
2. Common DLLs that we developed
3. some resources (.resx and XML)...