VB Forum / Deployment / June 2005

I am very green at all of this and need a little help with an installation
issue.
I have developed an application collecting some data using a Winsock on a
machine running XP in VB 6.0.  The application when installed on other XP

Hi!  I have been given the task of making our
nasty legacy software work in Windows XP and/or
2003.  I have to first determine what must be
changed in the code to make this conversion

Ok i have a Visual Basic Group of projects contaiining the following
Talk Talk.vbp (Visual Basic Project) and the main application
3 DLLS inc
Import Files

Every time I try to run my EXE on any other machine than my development
machine I get the following error.
Application has generated an error that could not be handled.
I installed the .NET runtime files, but still the same error.  I can't

   can someone teach me how to create a standard EXE program in VB that can
accept arguments and can be called using shell or shellEx command. and also
how can i get the arguments that pass into the EXE. Thanks

A custom built application's code is written to display two MS Word 2003
documents on a single screen by splitting the screen horizontally into two.
One document is to appear on the top half of the screen, while the other
document is to open up on the bottom half.

I have developed a VB6 app on my Windows XP PC.  Now I am trying to
deploy the app to my user's PC and find the user's PC is a Windows
2000.  The setup file gives me errors and the application doesn't
install.  Will I need to find a PC with Windows 200o to develop the

I am using VB6 and PDW to create an installation package. Is there a way to
automatically put a shortcut icon on the desktop without using MS Installer
or any other third party program?
Thanks in advance  

I have used a Deployment project to create a desktop shortcut to my
application during the installation process.  I went through the normal
steps of creating a shortcut to the "Primary Output" of my VB project and
dragging that to the Desktop folder in the file system.  The first ...

I have a general-purpose program that reads and writes to an Excel workbook
using an XML file as a definition.  I would like to do the following with the
setup program:
 If the program is not installed, on a PC then wit will install it an then

Have witten a small program reading a AS/400 database from PC under windows
XP. How to include ODBC data sources in the installer.
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Hubert BINASALIME

I have used the Deployment project to create a desktop shortcut to my
application during the installation process.  I went through the normal
steps of creating a shortcut to the "Primary Output" and dragging that
to the Desktop folder in the file system.  The first time that I click

How can I force the DP Wizard to make directories within the AppPath ? At
the moment I use a trick to add dummy files to the deployment wizard and
configure them to be installed in a specific subdirectory of the AppPath. I
suppose there must be a better way to achieve this.

I need to change the location of a file which already was added to the list
of deployment. Since this is not possible, I deselect to add the file to the
list and add a new file. However the PD wizards detects that it is the same
file name and reports 'a file with this name has ...

Hello. I have a VB6 project that has a taskbar and 6 buttons (16X16).
Originally I had six pictures loaded in the ImageList. The program worked
fine. Then I added 2 more pictures to the ImageList using all new filenames
to identify the pictures (there were none of the 6 original ...