VB Forum / Deployment / September 2004

I have a program written in VB 6.0 on XP pro sp2. (I mention that only
because it may contribute to my problem!) It finds certain emails in the
users default inbox and extracts data from the message body text.  It makes
references to CDO 1.21.  I complied the project and used the VS ...

I have been using ShellExecute to start MsWord, not that we have works
and office, I can't seem to find the executible for word anymore.
Is there an easy way to start MSWord using ShellExecute?
What file starts Word?

A user is setup on a PC that does not have administrative access.  This
means user can't register files, copy files to System folder, etc.
But I still want the user to be able to install a VB application without
having to login as a Administrator.

Hi there
I compiled a DLL, register on COM+... no problem. I tested it using a
"client" app(on the same machine) , and it worked fine.
Afterwards I exported the COM+ app proxy (when trying to export a dialog box

I would like my users to be able to download and unzip a file to replace
the program they are currently running.
The file they will download is a self extractiing file.
I can download the file from the web within the program with no problem.

I am getting more and more users having problems installing my software
They are getting the message
16-bit MS-DOS Subsystem
path to the program that you are trying to start or install

I NEED HELP!!
I developing an aplication in Visual Basic 6 and I tried to do a
installer of this application with VSI.
When i build the project error msg ocurred:

I am trying  to get an application that would be a self installing
executable. Is it possible to do this in VB? When I use the PDW, I get a
setup.exe, setup.lst and xxx.cab files. I need them all in one file that I
can  double click on and it would do the install.

I want my application to be able to open (execute) locally a file
located at a specific URL (ex: http://www.myURL.com/setup.exe)
I used the code on this page: http://www.devx.com/vb2themax/Tip/18339
But my problem is that with Netscape7.2 it doesn't open the file, it

Currently, I have 2 compiled VB programs in EXE format had lost the VBS
source codes. I would like to know what is the backward compiler that able to
retreive my source programs. How to retreive my VBS source codes thru EXE
files below?

The Packaging and Deployment wizard tells me that the dependency of
scrrun.dll is out of date.
SCRRUN.DEP    6/4/98
scrrun.dll    6/26/01

We have a distributed application written in VB6 and the database in MS SQL
2000. Usually we host the server components in Component Services and
install an Application Proxy on the client computers with the client
components.

Hi.  I am somewhat of a newb when it comes to VB (and .NET) and probably
haven't created the application I am working on with the best design
possible.  I would however like to improve some certain aspects of my
program.