.: Distributing your applications :.

[khansab]

So, you coded a software, tested it out, praised it. what now? Do you want your friends to check it out as well? Here is how you can let others install your software, professionally, not by making them unzip files and download missing .ocx files.

About Visual Studio Installer
The product "Visual Studio Installer 1.1" of microsoft will make installers out of your project files of any of the languages of the Visual Studio 6.0 family, namely

Visual Studio® 6.0, Professional and Enterprise edition
Visual Basic® 6.0, Professional and Enterprise edition
Visual C++ ® 6.0, Professional and Enterprise edition
Visual InterDev™ 6.0 Professional edition
Visual J++® 6.0, Professional edition
Visual FoxPro® 6.0 Professional edition

Downloading Visual Studio Installer 1.1
Visual Studio Installer 1.1 comes in two setup files, once you have them downloaded , have them both extracted to a same folder, no matter what destination. here are the download links for both the files.

File1:http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...-US/setup1.exe
File2:http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...-US/setup2.exe

Installing Visual Studio Installer 1.1
Execute the "setup" file from the folder you just extracted both the files to.
clicking on the setup file shall begin the process of installation of the Visual Studio Installer 1.1.

What Next?
How to Use Visual Studio Installer should'nt be that hard to figure out. Here is the link to the Online Documentaion of Visual Studio Installer. Do Check it out.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...eroverview.asp

regards

[imported_megamoose]

Thanks for this. It has been a while since I used VB6, but yeah making sure other people can use it hassle free can be a problem. I always just used the thing that came with VB6 but it always used to cause errors.

Thanks for thsi imformation. Maybe I'll give VB6 another try and use this tool

Mark

[Zegg90]

Is it possible to make installer files from projects of other software? Like Dev-C++?

[Devil_Inc]

Is it possible to make installer files from projects of other software? Like Dev-C++?

i was thinking the same thing, however i use wise installion since i didnt know about this but il be trying it. great find, thanks for the share.

`p34ce`

[narako]

If you want to make installers for programs made in something else you can use some freeware installers that are quite powerful like Inno Setup or Nullsoft Scriptable Install System

You can get them here
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page

[dhruvd]

Thanx all ! infact i had been searching for this stuff for past few months .... i had made a birth alarm with a few more addons but could not distribute it among my friends or keep it for download on net coz i didn't have this knowledge of making these files installable !

thanx all !