When you look in the "software" that you have installed you see the size of the software and the version. After I have installed my software I don't see the version in the list. Only the size of the installation. I was wondering how I can change that. Could it be that it is because I used InnoSetup and I need to set it in there or is Windows reading the version of the .exe itself?
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I have just completed a custom banking & accounting software application for a stingy client who doesnt wants to pay-up! How do i make the application a trail version that will expire in say 30 days, and also ensure that whenever it is installed, it checks for first installation and indicate remaining trial days.
View 2 RepliesHow can I find the OS using Visual Basic 2010? It does not seems to recognize any of the old commands like GetVersionEx etc.
I am looking to find out the Windows Version, Build, 32 or 64 bit, RAM, Processor and Manufacturer.
Am very new to programing and have never done it before.I am working on very small things at the moment like showing the time and date very basic stuff. i have some books and video's so am going over but i just need abit of code for now -
How can i display what version of windows i am running? for example.i have a button if i click it the label on my form will display the version of windows.
i have created a application that uses office outlook. my development machine has office 2010. now when i try to install the application on a computer that has office 2007 i am getting an error that says i should install office.interop.outlook version 14.0.0.0 in the global assemblies cache.
View 3 RepliesI have an installation of VS2010 with Windows 7 at work and a laptop with Windows 7 X64. I transferred a whole set of project files to the laptop but the directory "Documents" does not exist on the laptop - it is called "My Documents". As such of course I get errors when loading the project on the X64 machine as the resource files cannot be found. I have tried changing the name of the directory to "Documents" to accord with the other PC, and this was apparetnly successful. But, VS still does not "see" the files in the renamed directory. How can I simply change the path name for the resource files so that VS can see these files?
View 8 RepliesI am failing to Install a windows service and I cannot see where i went wrong.
Here is the error message I get when installing the Service from the SDK command prompt window.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0>InstallUtil "d:\My Documents\MyNe
wService\WindowsService1\bin\Debug\MyServiceApp.exe"
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I have developed an application in VB.Net 2005 Express. This app was then transformed into a windows service using a template I found on this forum. I am able to install the service using InstallUtil.exe and I am very happy, BUT the powers that be me are asking for a more eligant method of installing / upgrading the service.
All of my reading suggests I need to upgrade to VS 2008 Enterprise to achieve this goal. Before I lash out and reach for my credit card, can someone confirm the minimum requirement to achieve a pretty service installation.
I currently have a windows service that is packaged up as an msi installer. However, during the installation i need the user to input their required filepath (to string) location. The filepath variable currently resides in my component class called MyNewService that is inherited from System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase.
Is there anyway i can allow the user to define the filepath variable during installation?
Some software was installed on 8 XPSP2 PCs at 3 seperate times. 3 of the PCs, after installation, were restarted as per the installation instructions.When restarted, Windows XP displayed an error:The procedure entry point ___CxxFrameHandler3 could not be located in the dynamic link library Msvcrt.dll. and Windows will not start. (nor in Safemode)The problem I am having is that Msvcrt.dll is not shipped with the program, and from my research it is related to C++. The program is written in VB6 so I am confused.It could just be a coinsidence, but it only happens after the installation has told the user to restart the computer, so must be directly related to the installation. However, if the installation files were wrong or corrupt, NO installations would work correctly and we would have a problem on all of the PCs.
View 3 RepliesHow they relate and differ from each? What are the best practices for version control? Is there a primer about publish online? Or a good book?
And is it possible to make ClickOnce and a msi in one solution of VS 2008? If so, is there any conflict or pitfall?
BTW I am using VB if that makes any difference.
I'm trying to install Visual Basic Express edition 2010 on my windows Vista computer. The .net framework 4.0 is installed (or so the control panel says), but the visual basic installation fails every time it gets to "Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Express," which is the first item to be installed. before installing, I uninstalled the .net framework 3.5 along with vb and c++ 2008 express editions.First, I get the following error message 7 times in a row: The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package.
The error code is 2908.Then, I get the following error message: Error 1935.An error occurred during the installation of assembly'msddslmp,version="10.0.0.0",publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a",processorArchitecture="MSIL",fileVersion="10.0.30319.1",culture="neutral". refer to Gelp and Support for more information. HRESULT: 0x8002802F.Then, the installer quits, with the screen: Setup could not install the following component:Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Express - ENU?
I created a windows installer installation for my vb.net application. I want to include a tool with my installation that will run before the install begins and monitor the installation and send the log and errors to me (by email for example)
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to write a user defined filepath to my app.config file. When i enter c: as the filepath it writes it to my xml file but adds and extra /
Im not too sure why its happening? i have all the correct custom actions set up and my install method is as follows:
I am creating a windows application setup project using Visual studio 2008 setup project. This setup will have following steps[code]...
View 1 RepliesI just made an application using MySQL for the database. I use WAMP.Can I combine WAMP and my application installation into one packet installation ?
View 2 RepliesI have a vb.net windows form app that I am deploying as using the visual studio deployment project. The app needs to write event logs to the application log in the event viewer. For reasons explained here I need to create the event source during the installation process. Something like this to run as part of the installer
If Not EventLog.SourceExists(My.Application.Info.ProductName) Then
EventLog.CreateEventSource(My.Application.Info.ProductName, "Application")
End If
That code needs to be run during the installer with elevated privileges. So my questions are:
How do I execute that code above as part of the installer? How do I get the installer to do the UAC prompt to allow that code to run as part of the installation?
Is there any method using VB.NET API to detect Win Edition (e.g. Home/Professional/...)I tried the sample i found here How can I determine the Windows version from a VB 6 app?, but osv.OSVSize = Len(osv) gets me an error in VB2010Espress: Variable 'osv' is used before it has been assigned a value...
View 2 RepliesI'm in the market for getting a new laptop and not sure what version of Windows 7 I can get buy with for Software/Web Development. What's the census out there?
View 4 RepliesI am developing my project in VB.net. I want to get information of W7/vistHow can i detect them. My code is working properly with Windows Xp but not with PlateForm ID 6 versions
View 1 RepliesAre there any disadvantages working in a 64-bit environment?
View 4 Replieshow to return the following operating system data to a control:1) Version of Operating System2) Version of Service Pack3) Version of .Net Framework
View 7 RepliesI am trying to develop an app that uses a .dll that was developed for 32 bit systems. I get no error in VB or the compile.
Under Debug section of Properties the Platform Drropdown only says "Active(Any CPU)" How do I add x86 to this dropdown?
I need to check to see what version of windows is running. How do I do this from VB .NET 2005? and how comprehensive can I get... can I also check for Vista and Windows 7?
View 9 RepliesIn VS 2010, under "Installation folder URL" (under Publish) I have inserted this "\localhostProgram FilesRajoni" - my project name is "Rajoni". Isn't this the path where I want my app to be installed on user computer? Because in my Program Files I don't have anything
View 2 RepliesI changed my VB2008 Express development system from Windows XP to Windows 7.After installing Windows 7 I installed VS2010 with VB2010 Express.Tried that and had issues so I installed VS2008 with VB2008 Express.The application I was developing with VB2008 on my XP system will compile and run in the debug environment with VB2008 on Windows 7 but the Release build (double clicking the .exe in the Release directory) will not. An information box pops up stating the application stopped working. No application Form ever showed up on the screen. I can run a simple application I start from scratch on this new setup.The release .exe compiled on my old XP system fails in the same way.What could be the problem? The application of interest uses an SQL Server CE database. A reference forSystem.Data.SqlServerCe is included in the References. What could be different about running in the debug environment vs running the
View 5 RepliesHow do I check the correct OS version (xp, windows 7 etc)? I have seen an example like:-
Imports System.Environment.OSVersion
But this does not exist. All I have under environment is specialfolder.
I've decided to go with a Windows Installer (Setup Project) in VS Prof, rather than ClickOnce,I've added this project to my main project, and have right clicked and selected 'View -> Launch Conditions', it requires the .netframework 3.5.21022...
But I've created the installer project for .NET 2.0 framework, is this going to stop someone from installing the project without .NET framework 3/3.5?EDIT: I've found under the properties of that installer project, that .NET framework 3.5 and Windows Installer 3.1 was selected as a prerequisite, unchecked those, and checked .NET Framework 2.0, however the version under the launch condition .NET Framework is still 3.5, it should be 2.0
What I need to do is write VB scripts that will work on any version of Windows, right back to 3.1. I may need to write several files for different Windows versions, I just don't know.
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This runs on Windows Server 2003 and XP. I've tested it on those systems. But will that run on Windows 7, Vista, 98, 95, NT, 3.1? If not, which language/version do I need to use to do the same job on each system, and could you point me to the language reference?
We're trying to install this across a school for use by our students. How can I obtain a site licence as the 30 day trial has ran out and VB Express is asking to be reinstalled?
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