VB Forum / Deployment / April 2004

I have created an application using Visual Basic/Crystal Report 9 and Sql Server 2000. Then I also create setup successfully, but it behaves differently on different machine after installation. On some machine it reunperfectly, one some of the machine it gives me following error:

We use the msmapi32.ocx activeX control for email functionality. Am I able
to package that with our application for installation on client machines?
Everyone I have spoke to said yes but I couldn't find any info from MS one
way or the other

I have written a program that runs on win xp with no problems.
The trouble I've got is that it refuses to work with comdlg32.ocx
when run on win nt.
I have coppied and registered the ocx file from the win xp system to the nt

I have aVB application which is to be accessed by over 20 clients all over
the country.
I want all my users to access this application's exe from a server which is
centrally located. In other words, I want the executable along with the

I have created my first simple VB 6 program. It runs from withing VB.
I cannot find a clue as to how to create an EXE that I can deploy.
What is the secret? I am obviously missing something. :)
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I am re-installing VB6 and can anyone help me to register the old dbgrid32
control on my machine ??
I have copied over dbgrid32.ocx and dbgrid32.dep into C:\windows\system32
(a XP machine). I have forgotten the command that comes next !!

CAn anyone help me.  I am working on an application that sends orders via a
modem to our back office ordering system.  I have almost got it working with
standard serial modems, but I have now been asked to ensure it works with
USB modems.

There's an article at
http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/support/user/tts3000deploy.asp that
explains the required steps using the UI. Can anyone help me to do the same
programmatically (I need to call this in form of a VBScript, DLL or EXE in a

I'm trying to install a VB6 application using a setup program created on PDW.  When the setup gets to the screen where users can click the button to install the program, the user gets the message "The specified directory ... is in the setup source files directory.  Please type a ...

When trying to run my code on non English Windows, e.g. Danish, my
application does not run correctly. Can someone give me some pointers on
areas to look at for VB6.
I know in .Net the one of the areas is as below. Is there a VB6 equivalent?

When i attempt to deploy my VB project using the "Package and Deployment
Wizard", it shows the error message "Unexpected error number 380 has
occurred: Invalid property value" in the process of reading related
information at the start-up time and then it is closed up. What's problem

i use Format to obtain formatted data, some problems occurs because i use it
with italian data:
dd/mm/yyyy
code:

I've used Visual Studio installer to create installation (*.msi files)
packages for a couple of apps I've developed in VB6.  When I load the apps
in VB, or start the compiled exes on the development PC, the installer
starts up & tries to run.  Any one have any idea why this is ...

I've got a very important question concerning this service pack. We have 2
major VB6 applications that we use with users all over town who use them
either by dial-up or VPN. Of course, if we rebuild the application using SP6
then I am sure it will require a new setup to include SP6 ...

I have created a *.msi and this works well. There is limited distribution of this *.msi and it comes with an uninstall (by default) option in Control Panel. Is there a simple way to disable the uninstall feature or do I have to create a custom action to disable uninstall? (The ...