I was just forced to switch from VB 6 to .Net. I have my program working but I can't figure out how to include the database that I'm writing to in the install package. I can get the program working by dropping it in but I have to deploy this to other locations and I'd like it to be easy for them.
View 39 RepliesMy company has an application that until now has been distributed as exe-file together with lots of dlls. I am about to make an installtion program for this application, but there is one big problem. The database can be both access and SQL, the user decides by what he/she writes in the connection string in the .config file. I know how to insert a custom action in the installtion program to enable to let the user chosse this during installtion, but I don't know how to include the database in the project, especially since it can be both access and SQL.
View 3 Replieshow I can include a file in a setup.exe package and have it copy/add that file into a specific folder/directory when the install is run?
I have a Crystal Report that is in the application's "Release" folder in the development environment. I need to have this .rpt file copied to a folder on the user's C: drive when the Setup.exe is run.
I have developed an application which includes CR to display reports. I just found out to run these report, CR runtime engine needs to be installed. I would like to know if possible to include the installation of CR Runtime Engine in the set up of my application? I have noticed the pre-requisite option in VS 2010. But how to add CR Runtime Engine installation to my set up?
View 2 RepliesI am basically an EAI consultant and for my work I took an initiative to develop a windows based GUI whose functionality would be to simply execute a couple of Oracle SELECT queries and display the results in the form. I took the help of my friend who is a VB.NET expert and he was kind enough to develop the complete code for me within a day (He isn't available now). The application did work fine and we tried to package into an MSI using the Deployment & Packaging Project option. Now when I installed the application on a different computer, it throws OraOps10.dll not found ! I also tried the Setup Wizard from the same Deployment & Packaging Project option but it results in the same error.
Please note the following:
-> We used .NET 1.1 and the backend database is Oracle 10g.
-> We downloaded the Oracle Data Access components for .NET from Oracle's website. The DLL file in the error message actually came with this installation.
When I am packaging the solution, I expected all the dependencies including this OraOps10.dll should have also been packaged. What could go wrong here? I don't think I can request my customer to install the Oracle Data Access components for .NET, in this case we don't even need a packaging feature. I would be grateful to you guys if this silly issue is fixed very soon.
how to package and deploy vb.net application.
View 1 RepliesI have developed a windows forms desktop application using vb.net 2005. It is installed on client computers using a setup package.
One of the clients wants to redistribute the setup package to other users.
He wants to provide the users with an initialization file containing the database server name which they will be using, so that it is available when the application is installed. They are apparently incapable of physically typing in a server name themselves after installing the application.
Is there any way I can include a separate file with the setup package which the application can find after it has been installed?
What do you think is the best free setup and deployment package for VB.NET? Which is easiest to use?
View 4 RepliesI used vb.net 2008 express to build a database application i created database using access 2007 i created the application using vb.net 2008 express the application creates a report on word at run time my developing environement is
- windows xp
- .net framwork 3.5
- office 2007
- vb.net 2008 express
i want to create a package that could be used to install the application on the following environment
- windows xp
- .net framwork 2.0
- office xp - office 2007
I used the publish command of the build menu but the resulted package donot install , it produces and error informs me to install some assembles to th GAC!
best free setup and deployment package for VB.NET? Which is easiest to use?
View 2 RepliesI have added my own icon to my application's window title bars, but the Package & Deployment function uses the Visual Basic icom for entries in the Start Programs menu.
View 2 RepliesIn VB6 when I finished an application I would use the package deployment wizard and it would include all the dll and ocx files in an exe. Is there a version of VS 2008 that does the same thing?
View 10 RepliesI take it that the 2010 Express version doesn't have a package & deployment, it only does CickOnce? That sucks because I don't like the way it installs. Does anybody know of a free package & deployment package?
View 2 RepliesI'm using v2008 Standard Edition deployment Setup1. In the Properties, it seems I have to declare the manufacturer and this results in a deployment path such as: "C:Program Files TOSHIBA MyAppFolder" when the setup CD I created is used. I really want C:Program FilesMyAppFolder as the path. I'd also like to put an icon on the desktop and create a folder in My Documents that can contain two txt files as part of the deployment. I'm stuck as to how to edit the package. Are these options possible?
View 11 RepliesWhere to find the package and deployment tool in visual studio 2008
View 3 RepliesI am wanting to include data in my vb2008 deployment package.I have tried many different ways, but with no success.Even with the "click Once" method, also using the setup method.
View 5 RepliesIn Vb6.0 i used to use package and deployment wizard for creating installation packages for my projects. Now I'm not getting to do the same in VB2008.
View 2 RepliesI completed an application in vb.net and i'm using sql server 2005 as database engine.Now I want to create a software package for this application.But the problem is that how can I include the database within this package,I'm also using a crystal report viewer.ie, How can I install this application to a system that doesn't have sql server?.
View 1 RepliesHi, can anyone help me with a click once deployment query?I have packaged an application, using Click Once - it all works absolutely fine, with the exception of some files I need on the C: drive. For example: My application populates an Excel.xlt template with data, using an export function. The path of the template is c:program filesaem
eport.xlt
If the application is packaged, there is no option that I can see where you can include this template and the path to the file. The only way around it is to manually copy the template (and half a dozen other files in the same folder), after the click-once deployment - but this kind of defeats the object.
I have created a windows application which Installs Multiple MSI's based on some condition. The project is created in Visual Studio 2008 with .Net framework 3.5; If this application runs in a machine which has atleast Dot Net 2.0 installs, it works fine. but the system without framework 2.0 throws an error "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135)"
How can I stop my application from crashing. I tried giving a check in the Main(), but it is not even firing the Main(); Is there any way I can give a prerequisite, But not in the Publish, Coz i am using the output exe and not the clickonce output..
Is it possible to create an uninstall option in the setup package?
View 1 RepliesI installed the latest version of Toad yesterday. When I restarted Visual Studio 2008, the project that is my installation package for my application would not longer load. The message I get in the output window is "The Visual Basic Deploy Deployment Package ({CCD045E8-6236-4B3D-B820-97F7DD14C77C}) did not load because of previous errors." When I try to reload that project, I get the following error: " The operation could not be completed. No such interface supported" I tried to repair the VS installation, but that originally failed. The Deployment folder under Common7Tools was currupted so I ran check disk. A few bad files and clusters were found and corrected and the second run of check disk ran clean. I uninstalled Visual Studio and then reinstalled it, but am still getting the same error. I tried reinstalling .Net 3.5 before the reinstall of VS as well. I tried creating a new installation project, but that failed as well.
View 1 RepliesI have a project ready to be deployed via ClickOnce and it uses free graphing software. Is there a way to either include this software so that it will be installed with my project or have the install from the graphing software run when my program is installed from the site?
View 2 Repliesfound that Visual studio Basis not have a 'Package and Deployment' project type, andVisual studio professional Trial Edition is a temporary solution and also I remember that the license agreement says that Trail Editions
View 8 RepliesI've developed a database application in VB.Net 2010 Express and published a ClickOnce deployment package, the only choice in the Express version. The installation is supposed to create a listing on the Start menu but this isn't happening. Also, I'm using a specialized Hebrew font in the application that is not carrying over to the installation. what I'm doing wrong or if the ClickOnce publishing method is not capable of working in this way?
View 2 RepliesI have an application written in VB.net using VS2010 that I am ready to deploy. The application uses an access (2003) database, the .net 4.0 framework and Crystal Reports. I have generated a setup project which works fine when deploying to systemsthat have the runtime for CR and Access and .net 4.0, but I will need to deploy this to systems that do not contain all of thes "pre-requisites", and may not have a
View 10 RepliesI do one project in visual basic 2010.In visual basic 6 project can be make Package and deployment (setup file or install file) file using Package and deployment wizard.But in visual basic 2010 express edition does not have Package and deployment wizard.how to make Package and deployment (setup file or install file) file in visual basic 2010 project?
View 4 RepliesI am trying to run the application created in the example at [URL] The code errors at the line dtsDataReader = dtsCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.Default)
the error is A requested parameter does not exist in the package. I have checked everything that i can think of in the package Also when I try to run the package using the dtexecui utility I two errors "Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_PRODUCTLEVELTOLOW.
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I am wanting to use an application to package all my files together into a setup package. I have tried InstallShield 2011, but when i click on Visual Basic .net wizard, it tells me I do not have Visual Studio.NET installed on my system. I am currently using VB2010 Express How can I fix this... or is there a better application available for packaging?
View 2 RepliesI am developing an accounting package. I am using vb.net 2008 and access. I have a database named blank.mdb in the current folder which is the basic data needed. Now what I want is whenever a user creates a new company. I want this blank.mdb to be copied as Company?.mdb ? represents 1 or 2 or 10 as the case may b ...standing for the no. of company. E.g. if there r already 10 companies created then the blank.mdb should b copied in the current folder as Company11.mdb. How to copy the database. I have a few basic data in the blank.mdb and want that to be copied too.
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