Installing a VB Program

[Adept Developer]

What is the best way of distributing my small VB application to one user. It's basically a conversion program that will only run on one machine; no mass distribution.

How can I distribute the file to the user successfully? Can I just Make the EXE and send him that? He may or may not have all the appropriate DLLs. Is there an installer built in to VB6?

Thanks in advance.

-Steve

[Briantcva]

P & D Wizard

VS Installer

Inno Setup

[slhslm]

there is too many kind of programs

1- p&dw this including with vb6 sub menu
2- visual studio installer i think you can get it from MS site
3- golden
4- inno
5- sheild installer

but i dont know which is the best here is iam with you asking the
expert who was handling this programs to tell us which one is the best


thanks

[Buzby]

If it's a truly small program that doesn't use any non-standard controls, DLLs or components, and the user in question already has Internet Explorer 5 or better then you may be able to get away with just copying the .EXE over.
Try it and see.

If it fails it will normally say what file it was looking for - this could be MSVBVM60.DLL (most likely), which is the VB runtime file. Anyway, if it gives you a filename that it was expecting but couldn't find, then copy that file from your machine to the other machine (into the same folder - ie C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM) and try the program again.

[Briantcva]

Originally posted by Buzby
If it fails it will normally say what file it was looking for - this could be MSVBVM60.DLL (most likely), which is the VB runtime file. Anyway, if it gives you a filename that it was expecting but couldn't find, then copy that file from your machine to the other machine (into the same folder - ie C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM) and try the program again.

Missing file(s) will also have to be registered.

[Kevin_0011]

Uhh, no!

You can just put the files in the directory and they will work just fine!

This is probably a preferred method because if you are just blindly copying files over you don't want to accidently screw up any other programs that already work correctly! Putting them in the same directory as the EXE will make the EXE work without registering any stuff.

[Colonel Klink]

there is another one thats easy to use that i love to use, looks really good too

the Clickteam Installer

http://www.clickteam.com/English/installmaker.php

[slhslm]

i have downloaded V.S INSTALLER

but dosnt work under windows-xp
message = ((((((((((((( wrong os)))))))))

I dont know why isit need some of extra programe ??????

thanks