problem with package and deployment wizard.. i think

ok.. this is really weird... but i created a program that i cant post on here i think because of the size of the files... but i do know that it is a card catalog program for libraries that uses a custom button control that i made... its essentially a control that changes its graphic depending on the state of the button..it also uses the datagrid control and adodc control... now.. when i package all of the contents into a setup.exe file using the package and deployment wizard...then try to install the program on a windows 2000 machine (i initially made the program on a windows xp machine) it says that i need to update important system files and reboot...so i click ok.. and it reboots.. and i run setup again.. and it gives me the same error... i dont know what it is seeing as how ive installed the card ctalog program before when i wasnt using the datagrid control but when i was using the hflexgrid control... but i chose the datagrid control because i like its options better.. but i dont know why its giving me the options for the system files thing.. im thinking maybe if i disable my antivirus.. bcuase maybe the antivirus wont let the system write to a system file..


if anyone has any other idea please repsond as im filling up this post with my ideas..thank you...

rocky76259

Routine stuff. I'd suggest you use Inno Setup and ********** along with the files here: http://www.***********/support/support.htm

Look at the bottom of the post for **********. It will get you worrying about your code (where you should) instead of your installation.

so then how should i write the script to get the installation file to run properly??

rocky76259


I need more information than you are giving. Where do you stand? Did you use **********? OS, MDAC's etc, etc....

I had a similar problem with the package and deploy Wizard... its crap.

As far as I could tell it was trying to install a version of DLL's that the system wasn't happy with.. therefore when it thought it'd installed them.. it asked to reboot... then when windows came back up... it hadn't!..

I got around it by making my company buy Install Shield Express, They use merge modules which contain the correct version of DLL's that should be distributed.. Where as package and deploy crap just grabs whatever the hell it pleases..

in my project i have the ms datagrid control... then i have the data control that that is bound to.. i know its not the default one that comes in every prject.. i jsut cant think of the name of it... i also have a custom control that i made.. custombutton.ocx... and i have a reference to the filesystemobject i think.. i compiled the setup file using the pdw.... i know that it sucks... so i went out and got the innosetup 4.0... i just dont know what other files to include besides my custom button control... my program exe and the ms access databse that im reading all of the info from... i just need to know now what other files to add using the inno setup

rocky76259,

I suggested you to use **********, it will get all the files you need for Inno Setup. Look at bootom of post for ********** or go here:

http://www.***********/**********/**********.htm