VB Forum / Deployment / December 2004

We build windows apps and deploy it with .msi files. Works great. Along with
our app we deploy demo files of as a curtesy. Some users want to delete them
after a while. If they do, the installer will torture them to re-install
before they can run the app again. Is there a way to ...

I have created a windows service in VB.NET.  When I use a static DisplayName
property on the ServiceInstaller object in the Installer project that I added
to the windows service, all goes well. The project compiles and the
deployment project builds and installs my service just as ...

I have 4 applications which run unattended (sending reports, retrieving
status info by internet, updating web server data, etc ...); all 4 are built
with VB6 and connect to an Access database, and two of them use Outlook (via
automation) for sending/retrieving messages.

I am developing a vb.net application that uses an Access database located at
C:\database1.mdb on the development machine. The client wants the database
located at R:\database1.mdb on his server. The vb.net software will not let me
add this data connection because on my machine there ...

What' s mstfqws.pdw error ??? It occurs when I run my setup file
Thanks in advance
Serdar

Why do I get the following error when I run my setup  ?
C:\winnt\setup.lst
Section Bootstrapfiles
@VB6STKIT.DLL$(winsyspathfile) ,,,, 6.18.98 12:00:00 , 102912 , 6.0.81.69

I am deploying an application that uses an ActiveX control that requires
MFCO42D.DLL.  The version I use on my system if dated 7/1998 and some people
have a version 7/2000.  The control does not work with those later machines.
Microsoft says that there's a compatability issue ...

I wrote a VB6 application that calls Word in several places, sometimes to
activate a VBA macro and sometimes to run Word commands directly. I develop
and compile on WinXP SP2 with Office2003 (Word v11).
I used the packaging wizard to send the application to users who run WinXP

Our application runs in the debug mode without error, but when we compile the
application execution fails with an exception
"System.InvalidOperationException" with the following comment:  The key
"TextBox1.HideSelection" does not exist in the appSettings configuraiton

I developed a database application in VB /Access2000. Now I want to make
package of the same so that user at his end who do not have either VB 6.0 or
Access installed can use my software.
I created package using vb 6.0's Package and Deployment tools. It created

When trying to package my app using the package and deployment wizard it
comes up with an "Unexpected error number 76 has ocurred: path not found".
It only happens when I try and add a Crystal
report.dsr file to my package.  Has anyone come across this?  If so how can

I'm using a setup and deployment project in VB.Net to make my distributable
file.  I set all my options and go to build my project and I get the
following error.  
Error 1706.  No valid source could be found for the following product

I have a package and deployment wizard which includes some crystal report
dll's.  One of the dll's requires another so that it will register, however
when I include it in my P & D it will not add the file into the
Windows\System 32 folder so the other dll will then not register ...

I've use the PDW to create a Setup.exe, Setup.lst and CAB file.
Setup.exe works fine on my machine (where I used the PDW) and
installs the application.
On two other test machines, Setup.exe starts by copying the 7

I may be in the wrong group -- but generally, I would like to use VB to store
a file; Excel, Access etc... and then be able to save the file from VB to a
disk via command button(sort of like an installer, only more simple).
(BTHW, I have researched OLE pretty hard and nothing... ...