VB Forum / Deployment / August 2003

I'd like to share my experience with NT Server 4 SP 6 and Visual Studio 6
PDW (Package and Deployment Wizard).
I created a standard exe program with VB 6 SP 5 in my XP SP1 machine. This
program has references to: MS Scripting runtime, MS CDO for NTS 1.2, and MS

How can I code a programme to access files located in an
installation folder specified by the user at installation
time.  I have the programme accessing files from
C:\Program Files\xyz\, but I'd like to allow users to

When I try ti open an form already included in a project,
sends me this message : "Input past end of file : C:\.. "
and does not let me to edit it or making an executable.
Please help me.

I don't know if this is a deployment question (I suspect
it is!).  I have an installation procedure which installs
my application, database, etc. no problem.  However, the
icons that are created from the install do not have

I develop code on my Win XP Pro laptop using VB6 Pro. I
want to run code on this machine and on 2 others. The 3
machines are:
A: Win XP Pro SP1 (recently purchased laptop)

We have a series of COM+ applications.  Using the "Export..." tool, we can
create a Windows Installer file (let's call this "COMPlus.msi") to create an
Application Proxy to install on other machines to enable access to the COM+
applications.

I have a vb app that I've built an MSI deployment package for with VS
installer.  All works okay except that I have a pair of dlls that don't
register.  My app runs okay except when it needs the dlls.
If I manually register the dlls using regsvr32 on the target machine after

Okay so whats the best deployment package creation program out there ?
Silk

I'm porting a VB project to an install program with Visual Installer.
The setup program is created but fail miserably with this error message

...".

I have a small application developed using VB5 & VB6 on
Windows 98. The target machine runs Windows XP, and once
installed there the program sometimes does this: user
exits the program, and even though it "looks" like the

We have an app we have developped on a WOInxP Pro workstaion and part of it
on a W2k server.
We compiled it using  Vb6 on the wInXp pwrkstation and test the exe. It
works fine.

I am using the Microsoft Visual Studio 6 installer
package to create an msi install file for a VB6 project.
Is there any way to get the installer to install the
software to all users on a Windows 2000/XP machine,

I have a VB6 app and am using the MS Installer program.  
The applications I've done have installed fine on many
machines but now I am working on an application that reads
an Excel file instead of Access.  I have referenced ADO

I am trying to install vb 6.0 app by triggering it from
bat file using the way microsoft suggest:
C:\program files\myapp\setup.exe -s c:\program
files\myapp.log

I have a problem in programming Service in VB.
Have VB supported to program Multithreading into service ? Can you give me a
example?
Thanhs