VB Forum / General 2 / December 2003

Question:  How do you create an Installer program using the Package
and Deployment Wizard provided by Visual Studio Pro 6.0 (SP5) to
include subfolders and their contents.  I understand how to include
each file, individually, but I would like to have the program install
them into their appropriate folders.

More Information:  I have a small VB app (VB6 Pro, SP5 on Win NT4) for
which I would like to create a Standard Setup Package distributable on
a CD to PCs (Win98, NT, 2K, XP).  Along with the .exe file, there are
two folders, one containing textfiles and the other containing icons.
If possible, using the Package and Deployment Wizard, I would like to
install the folders and their contents in tact in the same directory
as the executable.

C:\Program Files\My Program\MyPrg.exe
C:\Program Files\My Program\Folder_Icons (contains 5 files -
.ico,.jpg,.gif)
C:\Program Files\My Program\Folder_Textfiles  (contains 132 .txt
files)

I did a search of comp.lang.visual.basic using the argument "package
and deployment, subfolders" and came up with two older threads.  One
was rather vague and the other recommended editing the setup program
which I'm not quite comfortable with.

Cheers,

~Kris