My first attempt at packaging&deploying - Having trouble

[RWWAMS]

Hi everyone, I'm using vb 6.0 pro, Access 2000 and Crystal Reports 8.5 dev.

I have a simple application that I put together to learn how to package and deploy an app on other computers. My first attempts seemed to work, however I noticed a few things that I wanted to change with setup program (like the name of the program and how it get's pinned in the programs list).

I believe I successfully uninstalled the program (I'm only testing on my computer). I also deleted the setup.exe and the support files. I was planning on making another from scratch.

On my second, third, fourth, ... attempt, the packaging seemed to go fine, however, I'm now having trouble running the setup program on my computer.

Everything seems to go fine until Setup updates the system. Now I'm receiving the following message.

The file 'C:\DOCUME~1\white\LOCALS~1\Temp\msftqws.pdw\$(DLLSelfRegisterEx)' could not be registered because it was not found.

I'm forced to click okay, then the program is automatically uninstalled. Any ideas what I did or am doing wrong?

Any help would be very much appreciated.
Regards,
Rich

 

[johnwm]

Google returns a number of hits for 'msftqs.pdw', several from MSKB. Known issues include left-overs from old installation:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216231

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[RWWAMS]

The problem has been resolved. I had to go into the setup.lst file (open it with Notepad) and locate the following -

$(DLLSelfRegisterEx)

and change it to -

$(DLLSelfRegister)

Then run setup.exe again. It should work fine.

Regards,
Rich

 

[Dan688]

I good idea would be to use VB package and deployment to create the script and use a program like InNo 4 to create a better setup routine (more options 100% better).