VB Forum / Deployment / October 2004

Hi. I've got an XP development machine.  I'm deploying to a win2000 and it
tells me system files are out of date and need to be updated and rebooted.  
Only, when I reboot I get the same message.  This repeats over and over.  
When I had an NT I had no problem deploying apps to ...

I am working on a VB6 Project, it will open an excel
format file (with tab separated). It works fine in my
machine. However, when I deploy it to the client, they
report the "Invalid page fault in module" error. I have

I am an university lan administrator and i manage workstations where the
students need to use visual studio. The installation went without a scratch,
i installed Visual Studio 6.0 on winXP machines without Visual C++ and FoxPro
cause we dont need it.

I am building a VB6 application that will need to run with limited (user)
privileges. I understand that non-power users only have write access to a
few specific directories on the system, as well as very limited registry
access.

I need to install 3 different applications when a user inserts the
istallation CD.  Each installation needs to finish before the next one
starts.  How can I do this?

how do i build my vb .net windows application so that i can run it from the
command line w/ several command line parameters?
appreciated,
matthew

Is it possible with the free Inno installer software to read values from
.ini files and
use these values in the install routine?
If so, are there any examples how this is done?

I would like to modify the installation of my application. I need to give
users an option of installing client or server software (using a check box I
would imagine) and I've read that modifying the Setup ToolKit or setup1.exe
would allow me to do this. I intend to install one ...

I have noticed two directories in my Documents\Visual Studio Projects
folder. Does anyone know what these are for and what created them? I have
Visual Studio with Visual C++ 6 and Visual Basic. I realize that VB created
them, but what task and why? Are they necessary; can I delete ...

I have created an application using CR 8.5/VB6 and Sql Server. I am able to install this application using P&D Wizard/Innosetup and executed on W2k and XP-SP1 Machines successfully. No error at all, every thing is working perfectly.
Now whenever I install it on XP-SP2, it hang at ...

I have a user who wants to make installation disks for an application she  
just made.  She is using VB 6.0.  What are the steps to make installation  
disk?
Thanks,

Is there a way to show only the mono spaced fonts in the common dialog box?
I use Courier new for the font, as it spaces the characters equally.
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Above is one the standing sheets I generate.

I have a web service that i wrote using C# and .net framework.  My client
requires me to write the client using VB 6.0,  so i wanted to know if
there's an example code, or links or maybe some help that can lead me to how
to comsume the webservice from the VB 6.0 code.

Up until now, I have been writing VB apps within my company and deploying
them using the VB Installer.
I now have a situation where I need to create an app that will be deployed
to any number of our customers. Mgmt wants to use a 3rd party installer like

I need specific folders to be created upon installation.  Then I need certain
files from the Installation CD to be copied to those folders.  How do I do
that using the PDW?