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    How do you install an app from the command line with an inf file?

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    Code:
    'in declarations
    Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long
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    ShellExecute hwnd, "Install", "C:\yourfile.inf", vbnullstring, vbnullstring, 0
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    How about from the run command?

    I can use this too in another project THANKS! But to look a gift horse in the mouth, how can this be done from the run line or in a batch file?

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    C:\WINDOWS\rundll.exe setupx.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 C:\Yourfile.inf

    I just looked it up in registry, and thats the command line you use
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    writing software in C++ is like driving rivets into steel beam with a toothpick.
    writing haskell makes your life easier:
    reverse (p (6*9)) where p x|x==0=""|True=chr (48+z): p y where (y,z)=divMod x 13
    To throw away OOP for low level languages is myopia, to keep OOP is hyperopia. To throw away OOP for a high level language is insight.

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