VS 2005 Recommend An Installer Maker?
May 19, 2011
Visual Studio has a utility to make installers for my programs. People will be able to install and run my applications on their own PC's. It is, however, rather limited. For a start, people can't choose where to install. The installer chooses for them. I can't even find where it puts the application.
I've heard there are many 3rd party installer makers. Recommendations, please. What is your favourite, for VB applications? It should be fairly simple to use. I downloaded one, it has a scripting language that looks complex. It might take a while to learn it.It should also be free, or fairly cheap. At least have a free trial period.
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Mar 8, 2009
I've seen in some installers that the final screen of the installation gives the user the opportunity to run the app - how can I do that with my VB.Net 2005 Pro installation project?
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Dec 29, 2011
Can anyone recommend a good VB book that will teach functions, file IO, arrays, recursion etc. A lot of the ones I have looked at are very basic I started Sam teach yourself VB 2010 in 24hrs but a lot of it didn't relate to what we do in college.
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Apr 7, 2010
i have a question regarding the icons for applications.Is there a way to set an icon for an application in .net installer and not include it sepparately in the application folder but rather embed it to the application ?I mean i saw in the registry for some applications the icon set to application.exe,0 What does ,0 mean ?
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Jul 5, 2010
i would like to ask how am i going to add files with filenames that have non-English characters Also when i try to reinstall my application i get an error.Do i have to always change the version of the application in order to make an installation without errors ?
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May 7, 2008
I have created a script that opens up an .msi with a transform file. To make changes to the transform file, I have created a temporary .msi file. Once the changes have been made to the file, I want to delete the temporary .msi, but I am unable to as I get an error that the file is in use by another process. That process is the VB .exe itself. I need to be able to release the handle on this file so that I am able to delete it.
I have tried this by using both the 'ReleasecomObject' using try/catch and through using 'FinalReleaseComObject'. I do not get errors when running this in the script, but it still won't allow me to delete the file.
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Jan 17, 2012
I begain in 1971 learning TRS-80 Model III Basic language...later taught myself Lotus 1-2-3 and then DBase. Later, graduated to Visual Basic Stopped at VB 6.0. Now I need to move up to VB 2010...I have been programming for our company for sometime and use VB 6.0 as a front end for numerous Access DB applications.Can you recommend a good book (or books) out there that can help me with using VB 2010 as a frontend for Access?..just need the basics to be able to make connections, query the tables, return the data, update data, etc.
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May 17, 2010
I'd like to know which would be the best way to deploy updates of a software developed in vb.NET, using Windows Installer. What do i have to change? Upgrade code? or Product code?
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Aug 12, 2011
I'm currently developing an application for a POS Terminal using VB.net. Our project is approaching the last stage of development and I've been tasked to create 2 installers. 1 for Initial Installation, and the other for upgrade installation.
The project is composed of several elements. These are:
1. The application executable
2. Common DLLs that we developed
3. some resources (.resx and XML)
The requirement for the upgrade installer is that only those files with modification should be installed. (i.e. if only the xml or resx files are modified those are the only items that will be reinstalled, since the size of the upgrade installer is a consideration so we cannot reinstall everything).
I'm using Visual Studio 2005 for my deployment project but I'm a bit confused about how to set the properties of each file in such a way that during the upgrade, only the files that were modified would be updated and the rest of the files will not be removed since I'm setting RemovePreviousVersion property to True. I have a hunch that I need to do something with the custom action but I haven't been able to figure it out. The upgrade installer setup is almost the same as the initial installer except that all files are excluded.I tried to acquire a copy of Phil Wilson's book (The definitive guide to Windows Installer) but its not available in our local bookstore and it would take too long to order it.
Basically while tinkering with the settings/properties there are instances where the dll was not updated and there are also times when the application exe was removed.
I already verified that the Product code is the same for both installers and that I'm sure that the version number is being incremented for each upgrade.
If I will be redoing both installers from scratch, how should I go about it?
I'm also confused about the Condition property and the transitive property.
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Jul 19, 2011
Triying to use the built in Visual Studio 2010 to install a couple of files and after that is done to run another installer package (3rd Party Installation Wizard).
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Oct 30, 2009
I have a small console application that writes the [TARGETDIR] from my msi installer to a text file.If I choose C:Program Files as the installation folder, it only writes out C:Program..What would you use so that it doesn't stop writing when there's a space? [code]
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May 29, 2011
I have written a program in Visual Basic 10 and all is well. I have published it and have been burning the result to a cd and installed it on various computers, however it is the click once app, which has been fine till now. What I need to do now is to have the program install the .exe file and associated files (non click once app) to a specific drive on a computer or network computer. I have searched the net for instructions on how to initiate the windows installer and have failed. is there a program that you can select the source files then point to the installation folder tell it to go and an installation package gets made that I can burn to disk.
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Mar 17, 2011
Im not asking for any code or anything but i was just wondering if you can make a map in notepad and than turn it into a map in Vb.net. (Like if G in notepad = grass. Have VB switch it to the grass picture.)
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Apr 17, 2009
I'm trying to make a home page for a game i have, i want to be able to push a button on the form and open my game that i made in game maker, what is the code that i need to put behind the button?
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Oct 30, 2009
How would i create something that would open a choose file dialog, let you click all the files you want(in this case audio files), take the ones you selected and write a windows media player playlist file(you should know but anyways its basically a text file formatted in a specific way with a .wpl extension)[code]...
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Mar 21, 2011
im trying to make images to avi maker, now i watched this thread: [URL] And i downloaded that avilib and imported, so now im trying to use this
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Jan 13, 2011
I have code/support an application built on .NET framework that has always run on .NET 2. This year we are upgrading the application to use .NET 3.5 (or 4?). In preparing for this change we noticed that that Offline Installer (required for our customer base) for .NET 3.5 is 200+ MBs bigger than the .NET 4 offline installer.
Here are my questions.Why is the dotnet 3.5 installer so much bigger than the 4 offline installer?
Can we TARGET .NET 3.5 but distribute .NET 4. In other words, is .NET 4 backwards compatible? Assuming that .NET 4 was the only installed .NET could application still target earlier frameworks?
IF our application is compiled for x86 CPU (rather than Any CPU) do you still have to distribute the x64/x86 Client Profile or can we just distribute the x86 Client Profile? In other words, can we distribute the x86 Client Profile even though it will be installed on x64 machines if our app is compiled for x86 target CPU? Any risks or gotchas for doing this?
The issue is that if we upgrade our app to target .NET 4 there are a lot of application servers that we also have to upgrade which effects a number of other applications.
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Mar 4, 2009
i want to know how to draw cell or grid in picturebox for icon. im creating a small program that i want to include icon editor, i know how to use bitmap or GDI+ to make icon, but i want to include small icon editor like the one with VS IDE. i want to know if the 32 X 32 icon pixels was generated by 32 rows of pictureboxes and 32 columns of pictureboxes. In a real icon editor you can use different color for each pixel.
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Nov 8, 2010
Is there a way to return only a set number of decimal places when using the mod function? My 'ones' equation seems to be rounding up? (I'm assuming I have the wrong idea about '\')
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
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Is this program very inefficient? Based on the past programs I have written for this class, I would say I've probably done it again. I don't think I have written a single "efficient" program yet. =/
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Sep 10, 2009
I understand how a usual map maker/editor works. I have one that I have been tweaking with on and off for the past 2 years. It gets xPosition, yPosition, and which tile to place. However, I have been running over the problem I had last time I left it...how to apply a zPosition (to determine which layer a specific tile is on). From what I know the typical map consists of a 2D array of tiles, but not only loading the first array would you load multiple arrays for each layer needed for a particular map?
I have yet to find something that explains how a multi-dimensional/layered map array is supposed to work, or how to load multiple layers at once with transparency to allow for the bottom layers to come through. I don't need any code here, just an opinion if I am thinking about this the right way, and what terms I can look up to find out more.
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Mar 10, 2010
I am trying to make a button maker program.I know I can make a rectangle (will be the main button) and a label (text on it )but how do I save it to png ?
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Jan 24, 2012
im trying to make a simple schedule maker.-basically i have 2 combobox.-what i want to do is that IF i select 8-930 in combobox1 THEN combobox2 will no longer have 8-930 selection in it.
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Feb 15, 2012
I wanna make a Shutdown manager :icon_cheesygrin:
Dim SETGETimeOut As Integer = " -t " & NumericSecondsValue.Value.ToString
Dim SETGETComment As String = " -c " & CommentBox.Text
'Dim SETGETNetwork As String = " -m "
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Jun 4, 2009
generate sql script files from their tables and such.I have been told to make a small program that will take as input a mdb filename, and make Create Table commands from every table the database has (in access field naming format), and make Insert into commands for each line of information for each table.piece of code to cycle a hole database non system tables, read their field properties, and then read all their containing rows?
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Jun 6, 2009
I am trying to make a gif maker application,this was the idea: I have 5 pictureboxes on the form 1 Final picturebox User adds 2-5 pictures on form and after that it presses a button that starts a timer The timer it's for the final picturebox to like show 1 picture than hide it and show the next.. I dont know the timer code... The code I added till now looks like this:
Dim str As String 'for the number of pictureboxes
Button"AddPicture"-
dim open as new openfiledialog
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maybe Ur own aplication that makes from multiplme images a gif and save it as .gif and give me the source
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Aug 13, 2010
i want to make a Thumbnails Maker, that makes 20 picture of a video and then a file save dialog will appear when its dune. this is my design i have right now
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Oct 29, 2009
I want to make a 30-day trail in visual basic 2008 i found this software Active Lock Software but how do i use it.
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Feb 24, 2012
I have a course work for which I have to make a (as advanced as possible) WYSIWYG web page editor in VB.NET (2010). It should have a visual editor with drag-drop support for several elements such as anchors, images, tables etc, and it should generate HTML based on that structure.
I don't know where to begin though. I have some experience with vb.net, I made a tabbed notepad vaguely following a tutorial, but I don't know how to make this drag-drop thingy in a richtextbox. I've searched for a tutorial, but most of them are just too simple, a text editor with browser control rendering the HTML.
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Sep 6, 2011
Library to find motherboard maker + model?
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Jul 26, 2009
how make comment maker character for whole paragraph
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