Installation Clarification (hey, that rhymes!)

[OneSource]

I just ran the P&D Wizard and this message popped up at the end:

You have included mdac_typ.exe in your installation package. If you will be installing this package on a Windows 95/98 system, it will require DCOM98 to install properly.

I looked for dcom98 on my PC but couldn't find it.

Do I need to be concerned about this when installing my proggy on someone else's machine?

Also, a support folder was created that contains a lot of DLL's and a few other files. Do I need to be worried about these at all?


Thanks.

[Edited by OneSource on 08-24-2000 at 11:33 AM]

[dimava]

I dont know the first answer, but for the second, that folder includes all the files that your program needs like OCX's and The MSVB60 file (I forgot the name of it). IT also includs a CAB file (which I dont know how to use) and if you have any icons or cusers, they will also be there. But I think that you should download the free wise installer at WiseSolutions.com, it looks more professional

[MattS]

DCOM is available for download at:

http://www.microsoft.com/com

There are seperate versions avaiable for Win 95 and Win 98. It's required to be on older machines before MDAC is installed.

[dimava]

I was always wondering, whats DCOM

[MattS]

A big hairy pain in the butt!

Stands for Component Object Model... You can get more info at the address I provided above.

[dimava]

I know what COM is its Active X stuff but whats DCOM

[OneSource]

Dimava and MattS.

I was able to successfully install my application on the client's PC without any major problems!

Early in the installation, it did say that a needed file was missing (maybe the DCOM), but it chugged along anyway! I guess because this system also has Windows '98, it was able to handle the installation without that file (whatever it was).

Dimava, FYI, the CAB file contains all of the information in the SETUP folder in a compressed format in order to make installation easier. I couldn't imagine doing this installation with having the needed files in a CAB format. If you've been doing it (and maybe it's not necessary with the Wise Installer), you have my admiration! By the way, thanks for the link. I'll definitely check it out because I'm not too happy with the P&D's performance, although it got done what I needed to get done.

I'm still not sure what DCOM is.

All the best.

[jbart]

Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM).

Straight out of MSDN. More than you want to know.

DCOM is based on the most widely-used component technology today.
DCOM is simply "COM with a longer wire"—a low-level extension of the Component Object Model, the core object technology within Microsoft® ActiveX®. Major development tools vendors—including Microsoft, Borland, Powersoft/Sybase, Symantec, ORACLE, IBM, and Micro Focus—already sell software development tools that produce ActiveX components. These tools and the applications they produce automatically support DCOM, providing the broadest possible industry support. Additionally, over 1,000 existing commercial software components that will work with DCOM are already available for use by developers.

DCOM is the best networking technology to extend component applications across the Internet.
Because it is an ActiveX technology, DCOM works natively with Internet technologies like TCP/IP, Java, and HTTP, enabling business applications to work across the Web. DCOM enables distributed Java today without requiring any communications-specific code or add-ons.

DCOM is an open technology that runs on multiple platforms.
Microsoft is openly licensing DCOM technology to other software companies to run on all of the major operating systems, including multiple implementations of UNIX-based systems. Software AG has DCOM running on the Solaris-based operating system today. Additionally, Microsoft is handing over DCOM technology with other core ActiveX technologies to The Open Group. The Internet Draft technical publication that contains a publicly available description of the DCOM network protocol can be found at http://www.dc.luth.se/doc/id/draft-b...1-spec-00.txt.

[dimava]

thanks for the short explenation

[jbart]

Really !

That was from Microsoft, so that WAS the short explanation.