Distribution Questions

[innmedia]

Hi,

I am working on an app for commercial use, using VB6. What files do I need to ship with the app? Is there concern for the OS - will the app run on Win95 right up to WIndowsXP?

THanks

 

[Ruairi]

You should be able to use the package and deployment wizard (or visual studio installer) to assemble the files into a setup program without having to know which files are needed (you may need to add a few files that the wizard misses, but in most cases you won't have to). As for the different OS's if you access databases it will be a good idea to add mdac_typ.exe (downloadable from MS) for 95 and 98 installations and DCOM98.exe for 95 installs. Both of these are self-extracting exe's that take care of their own setup when added to your setup package. Everything else should be the same for all OS's (unless you want to take advantage of Win2K and higher's side by side versioning capabilities for dll's, this allows you to have different copies of the same-named dll for different applications. you can look up how to do this on MS's site, search on 'side by side dll' ).
Ruairi

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